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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems. Step 2: Separate planning from budgeting. It's probably too little too late. The best time to ask for regularized funding is when you're successful. Rebuilding the regional consensus about transit.

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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There were a series of articles by smaller communities, about how the quality of their city as an events-sports destination was high, despite the size of the community or whether or not they actually had a sports team, for example Fort Worth doesn't (" Here’s why Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena was named Billboard’s No. 1 venue in the world."

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ACTION, DATA, EVOLVE! 3 Ground Breaking Moments from the CPBB (Un)Conference

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Just one week ago, our 5 th Annual (un)Conference on Priority Based Budgeting concluded, and to quote one of our attendees who has been to all five “it was easily the most complete Conference, and also the most forward-looking.” The roots of PBB came to life to fulfill that mission. ACTION Action in OnlinePBB centers on the following: 1.)

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Strategies for Landing Your Dream Job in Parks & Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

The housing market crisis had just occurred in 2007, and I graduated in 2009. My fingers are in quotes here because we know it’s not normal, but they’re trying to make programs and events and things feel special. They’ve had several interviews, and they just can’t land that job. The rest is fee based.

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Grant Decision Making. How do you choose which grants to chase?

DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

I figured, I had years of experience raising sponsorship dollars for cycling and running events, how different could this be? Full speed, nonstop, 30+ fundraising events a year. Remember 2008/2009, the Great Recession? I stepped into the CFO’s office and asked if this was in the budget for the next couple of years.

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10 Awesome Repurposed Emergency Bunkers

Emergency Management Degree Guide

The complex had air regeneration and water supply systems together with food and fuel supplies, and it could sustain as many as 3,000 people for three months in the event of a nuclear attack. The hotel opened in 2009 and didn’t provide any luxury amenities such as flat-screen TVs. The Shelter (Nightclub) – Shanghai, China.

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Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC streetcar advocates are holding a community event to advocate for expansion of the streetcar to Ward 7, which DC Council recently defunded. Incrementalism has been fruitfully applied to explain domestic policy making, foreign policy making, and public budgeting. A perfect example is the DC streetcar.