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Federalism and the Detroit Bankruptcy Case

Public Policy Blog

Scott Bomboy of the Constitution Center mentions that “the concept of nullification–that states can overrule federal laws–predated the Civil War by decades, and the ultimate issue of nullification (secession) was settled in the 1860s. 1257 courtesy of Cornell Law Institute). If that law is federal, then the U.S. 482, 488 (1976).

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The Sisyphus Files – Repeated Issues in Performance Audits

Barrett & Greene

Consider the December 2022 audit of the Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, which pointed out that the department did not “promptly or properly deactivate 17 terminated employees’ access” to the state’s criminal justice and accounting systems.

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WHEN CORRUPTION HITS SMALL CITIES

Barrett & Greene

That was all about a $53 million embezzlement that occurred over many years by the Dixon, Illinois comptroller, who worked in that small city (population currently about 15,000) from 1983 until her indictment in 2012. I may not have a 30-member accounting department, but I have 15 and I can be able to do some things in a better way. “I

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So, Your Jurisdiction is Thinking of Starting a Revenue Manual…

Death and Taxes

I show them an old clip from the 2012 Vice-Presidential election debate of then Vice President Biden saying “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget and I will tell you what you value.” What are the laws that govern motor vehicle taxes in North Carolina? Laws authorizing use. Accounting details (including the fund).

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. Haynes 2012. Law and Social Inquiry 43(4): 1427-1457. Early views of social media (e.g. Bird et al.

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AWS announces low-to-no cost security services for federal political campaigns and committees

AWS Public Sector Blog

The FEC granted special permission for DDC to operate under this model, providing all eligible party and candidate committees—regardless of party—with the support they need within the limits of campaign finance law. For example, campaigns can detect and mitigate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks with AWS Shield Advanced.

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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

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009).