Policy Chats

JUNE 4, 2021

Finlayson joined OGE in 2006, initially serving in roles related to OGE’s legislative affairs and budget programs. Finlayson was honored to be selected as a Brookings LEGIS Fellow, through which she served with the Oversight of Government Management Subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 22, 2023

Seattle eliminated parking minimums in its Downtown in the late 1980s, and extended this concept to transit station areas and neighborhood commercial districts around 2006. But Donald Shoup's High Cost of Free Parking was published in 2005. DC's historic districts have an exception to parking minimums.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

JANUARY 17, 2023

Pam Bridgeforth is Managing Director of Camden Repertory Theatre and former Director of Programs for the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations. Shelton, a Camden, NJ native, in 2005 and initiated their inaugural season in August 2006. About Camden Repertory Theatre Camden Rep was founded by Desi P.

Community Development 40

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 7, 2024

According to this past blog entry from 2006, " Baltimore City Visitor Center has enviable financial return ," the economic return from the Baltimore center was over $3.5 This should include visitor marketing, but also the management of heritage (historic preservation), including more expanded building protections.

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Andy Whitford

MARCH 24, 2021

Written with a former undergraduate student during my time at Kansas, “ Making Environmental Self-Regulation Mandatory ” appeared in the journal Global Environmental Politics in 2006.

Regulations 40

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

Before Ohio’s new county land banks were conceived, the main goal from 2004 to 2006 was to respond to local leaders’ demand for speedier tax foreclosure of long tax-delinquent vacant and abandoned lands. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation. Ohio Tax Foreclosure Reform: Precursor to Ohio’s County Land Banks.

Legislation 52

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Barrett & Greene

JUNE 30, 2022

In researching the 26-year-old Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program recently, we had the chance to talk with Mary Beth Vogel-Ferguson, a University of Utah research professor who has spent the last 23 years in a state-funded project to interview TANF clients and share results with agency management and senior leadership. “My

Translation 52

Translation Social Services Leadership Budgeting 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

My mobility shed/mobilityshed and transit shed entry dates to 2006, " Updating the mobilityshed / mobility shed concept." A variant is that starting in 2006 I also wrote that the area's railroad passenger services should integrate into what I later called RACER, Railroad Authority of the Chesapeake Region.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. It attributed the issue to management failure and said the vacancies have accelerated the agency’s steadily deteriorating financial condition.

Housing 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One of the justifications to restrict sales in places like Seattle was the high cost of providing emergency services to regular users, and their service calls were usually associated with alcohol use.

Regulations 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Perceptions of public safety are shaped by cleanliness, the presence of graffiti, etc. -- " Updating the post The "soft side" of commercial district revitalization ," 2006/2016 Decades ago, DC used to pay people to clean the streets of commercial districts, but that program ended when the city was in bankruptcy. This article is interesting.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

But Earp, city manager for Hutto, Texas, and a recipient of this year’s American City & County Exemplary Public Service award , believes the winding road to his current role is evidence that he’s where he’s supposed to be. Earp attends a Block Party Bash in Hutto, where he’s served as city manager since 2022.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 10, 2023

But DC Government shows a lot that it's management capacity is weak. Obviously, DC itself has successful examples of doing this, although more with replacing the civic asset rather than including it going forward.

Housing 40

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

will house a community gathering space, management offices, a telework lounge, a fitness center, covered parking and about 13,000 square feet of commercial space that can accommodate a mix of artist studios, a makerspace and a caf. You could call the Smithsonian Museums on the National Mall in DC an example except it's not managed that way.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Housing Development Community Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

And I wrote more pieces over the years. -- " Every litter bit hurts ," 2005 -- " Litter revisited ," 2006 Photo by Inked78. One of my earliest blog entries was on litter, as a result of those efforts. 700 block of H Street NE.

Legislation 52

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

4 For those who have closely followed the housing finance industry for a long time, this should evoke memories of the efforts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) in the years before the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), and how their management teams also responded so aggressively to counter them. 24 Excessive executive compensation.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 13, 2024

And when thinking about writing about it, I remembered a bus initiative back in 2006 too. Another aspect of the balkanized transit system in the DC area is that every jurisdiction has a different program for bus shelters--what Ivan Bennett, product design manager for the London bus program, calls "a lack of continuity."

Transportation 52

Transportation Public Transportation Communications Implementation 52

Emergency Management Degree Guide

APRIL 26, 2013

The bunker was in operation for around 30 years, with a multitude of staff handling tasks like managing telephone and telegraph communications and alerts. And in 2006, Bunker-42 was bought privately and re-purposed as a Cold War museum, restaurant, karaoke bar, conference center and wedding venue.

Housing 52

Housing Government Local Government Budgeting 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

Really, the revitalization management process is never ending. Adaptive management/Continuous process improvement/stasis versus dynamism as element eight. Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes. Again DC has a great example as c.

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Death and Taxes

JANUARY 28, 2021

In addition to his operational responsibilities, Joe managed COST’s advocacy program and regularly testified before state legislatures and other state and national policy-making bodies. Joe served COST as chief operating officer & senior director, policy.

Budgeting 40

Budgeting Policy Objective Local Government Strategic Planning 40

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Though I am privileged to be the general manager, it’s your Metro, so please let us know how we can serve you better. I am empowering all staff members to own our service outcomes and to proudly represent America’s transit system. As you travel the region this fall, I hope you will choose Metro.

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Transportation Social Media Fundraising Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

But I haven't seen a good transportation demand management study of hospital workers trip to work. (In For $10 a month, patients get a monthly check-up from a nurse or other health care provider, education on how to manage their disease, and help navigating the complex health system to find prescriptions that are affordable.

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Masters in Public Administration

AUGUST 30, 2011

Top City Government Manager Blogs. City managers are often charged with the day to day tasks of running a city and can be read more about in the below blogs. Blog from the Office of the City Manager. This city manager serves the town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Ventura City Manager. City Manager Blog.

Government 40

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

In DC, for awhile I was a Main Street manager in the Brookland neighborhood, which is home to Catholic University, Trinity Washington University and near Howard University, and I touted the potential of student spending as an element of commercial district revitalization. But that's not a unique failing. DC has plenty of assets.

Economic Development 52

Economic Development Education Development Laws 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2. WMATA should upgrade its Metrorail station bus shelters (I know this happened at Springfield).

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We received a tremendous response a few weeks ago when we published “A Reader’s Guide to Government Performance” by John Kamensky, a longtime leader in the performance field who we’ve known since the early 1990s when we visited him at his GAO office and he shared knowledge about performance management in New Zealand, Australia and other countries.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

EMPDC was created by the Barry Administration to be a CDC and to take over management of the market, but vendors and other stakeholders fought the idea, and the market remained managed by the city--for a time by a putative nonprofit--with different spaces, like North Hall (arts) and Sunday under the shed run by different entities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

For years I've argued that DC should manage itself as a heritage area with or without designation. Many years ago Leimert Park in Los Angeles was featured in the Washington Post as a black-business district (" Los Angeles's Black Pride: Taking In the Retro Vibe of Leimert Park ," places , 2006).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

. -- " Lack of a system breeds more of the same: Source Theater, Washington DC, up for sale 2006, 2024 ," (2024) -- " The town (or place) that art saved(?):

Transportation 52

Transportation Parks And Recreation Economic Development Urban Planning 52

Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Paradoxically, technology modifies and enhances other types of distance as parents and managers alike bemoan their waning influence on followers who increasingly turn to smartphones and social media, rather than their immediate leaders for daily guidance (p. These complex networks are optimal when fully connected and ?at Schmidtchen, David.

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Barrett & Greene

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Several decades ago, when we first developed a passion for performance management, we leaned upon a cadre of people who were pioneering in that work. Managing Performance: International Comparisons. London: UK. Measuring Performance: Harry Hatry (2006). Lloyd Blanchard (2006). Stanford University Press.

Government 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

. -- " Yard sign, Person running for District Six Council in Salt Lake using traffic safety as a campaign issue ," 2023 Transportation management districts. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 11, 2024

A lot of my thinking about arts revitalization and more generally as an element of a community's culture was influenced by the failure of a bunch of DC arts organizations around 2003-2006. And consider the development of an allied tourism management and development plan, either separately or within the same framework; 3.

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Librarian.net

JANUARY 12, 2025

I finally managed to read a majority of female and non-binary authors. I didn’t mind it but I might have liked being out doing more other things. Most of the non-fiction I read was graphic novels (my library tends to like “graphic memoir” formats). I started 137 books and finished 135. average read per month: 11.25

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

I think I was ahead of many of those scholars. -- " Updating the mobilityshed / mobility shed concept ," (2008, originally 2006) 2. At a planning meeting in 2006, I made the point that bus shelters are key marketing touchpoints for the transit system, that their design and upkeep defines the system.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 21, 2025

But theyre not just going to, in the middle of daily life, change an entrenched habit. == Transportation Demand Management. Although plenty of places have created transportation associations to promote mode shift and have created Transportation Management Districts. I've suggested DC create TMDs since about 2006.

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