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Spotlighting true public servants during Public Service Recognition Week: Part 1

Partnership for Public Service

During Public Service Recognition Week 2024, the Partnership for Public Service shined a spotlight on dedicated individuals who work behind the scenes to serve their communities and country. Making a mark in local government Oswaldo “Oz” Mestre is the next public servant I had the chance to sit down with.

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Emphasizing ‘people over position’: 2023 Exemplary Public Servant James Earp

American City & Country

Despite being voted “most likely to be president” in high school, James Earp’s path to public service wasn’t a direct one. A path to public service It was while working in the banking industry straight out of college that Earp first learned about the job of a city manager. Systems didn’t work or didn’t exist.”

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I made a presentation about this at the University of Delaware public policy school in early 2010, " Metropolitan Mass Transit Planning presentation " (link to presentation within). My mobility shed/mobilityshed and transit shed entry dates to 2006, " Updating the mobilityshed / mobility shed concept."

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The 50 Best City Manager Blogs, Sites, and More

Masters in Public Administration

Bernard Lynch : The City of Lowell, Massachusetts’s Blog is where they offer the community an opportunity to comment on the city’s programs and progress. City Manager Lynch blogs on everything from budget concerns to public service. Jeff has kept the blog going since 2006. Business was the subject of his latest post.

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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (PART 2)

Barrett & Greene

A Performance Reader’s Guide Continued: Shelley Metzenbaum, Demetra Smith Nightingale and Batia Katz, Communicating Evidence , Urban Institute, September 22 Ken Miller, We Don’t Make Widgets: Overcoming the Myths that Keep Government from Radically Improvement , Governing Books, 2006 Theodore H. Poister, Maria P.