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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

He was also reelected in 2005 and again in 2009. Michael Patrick McGinn was elected the 52nd mayor of Seattle in November of 2009. Located in Maryland, he has lived there his whole life before being elected mayor in 2009. Top posts are on property tax increases and how neighborhoods and taxpayers can work together. Mayor Slay.

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The 50 Best City Manager Blogs, Sites, and More

Masters in Public Administration

Scott Darrington : Although he gave no reason for it, Scott stopped blogging in 2009. Often encountered by the city manager, the City Council helps propose and vote on items of interest. It is the site for the Budget Office of Seattle, Washington. Sections include updates, inflation, and a budget process overview.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I argued for years that the move by the teams to DC from the suburbs weren't the reason that the Downtown East End began revitalization.

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10 Interesting Facts About the History of Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

In modern voting, this process is often called the political machine and is now done in a less blatant way. There are several parts to the America Disabilities Act and it was most recently amended in 2009 to overturn a Supreme Court ruling from over a decade ago that deemed a person could not be defined as disabled if they were working.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Rather than adamantly saying "no," I came to realize that since advocates mostly lose out on such initiatives--except if the city or state requires a public vote--we should be focusing on mitigating the problems from such facilities and increasing the benefits. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

This concept while widely dismissed by today’s scholars of public administration (Campbell and Peters, 1998; Levy, 2009) as if a true unadulterated distinction could honestly, actually, occur is commonly a constant and growing public debate particularly in developing countries. Manager relations. Public Administration Review,72 (4), 526-535.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). In a historical context, when viewing the snapshot of their nascent birth, we can see the peak of OWS has slightly more interest in America than searches for the TPM did during the groups’ peak in 2009” (Parrillo, 2011).