Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

And an area of DC law that offered a way to oppose the entry -- the environmental impact law -- was underdeveloped, and those lawyers who were willing to oppose except for JOBS! But the elected officials wanted it to happen - - JOBS! weren't sophisticated enough to follow that line of reasoning.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 22, 2024

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. Apparently, no town is too small to be hit by corruption.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 14, 2022

124,000 files from Uber were leaked to the Guardian and they found that " Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." And they did this at the expense of the success of public transit as well as adding to traffic and congestion even while arguing they did the opposite.

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Center for Community Progress

MARCH 16, 2023

Like in many states, a mix of ineffective laws, partisan divisions, and the allure of maintaining the status quo made reforming this local process difficult. I had a front-row seat into the harms of auctioning off tax-foreclosed properties , particularly low-value residential properties, but thought, what could be done?

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Barrett & Greene

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A similar problem was found in three prior Connecticut Department of Emergency Services audits which occurred in 2012 through 2019. That same month, a Department of Law Enforcement operational audit in Florida also found that user access privileges “weren’t always removed upon separation.”

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

That question is one of policy, not law, and the School of Government is neutral on issues of policy. Instead, my goal is to discuss a related question of law: If the General Assembly chose to expand the circuit breaker, could it constitutionally do so in a way that allowed for variety in its application across the state?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

. -- " Revisiting Trust for Public Land's Park Score® methodology " (2017) -- " Federal shutdown as another example of why local jurisdictions should have more robust contingency and master planning processes " (2013) -- " Testimony: Agency Performance Oversight, DC Department of Parks and Recreation " (2012) Lack of investment in board development, (..)

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Public Policy Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

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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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

JUNE 25, 2020

2012, 2019 (2017). Although the Clause prohibits the government from punishing or withholding benefits based on one's religious beliefs, the Clause does not entitle citizens to an exemption from a generally applicable law solely due to their religious beliefs. 519, 535-36 (2012). See Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc.

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The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Black students, representing only 16% of student enrollment, make up 27% of students referred to law enforcement and 31% of students subjected to school-related arrests. Socioeconomic status is one of the most well-documented correlates with juvenile delinquency.

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Death and Taxes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

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. What goes into laws?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. Since the 2020 election, over half of the states in the US have changed election laws. In 2021, Democracy Works continued to make an impact and sent 23.3

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 10, 2024

hits 16-year high on traffic deaths ," Washington Post And because we don't provide actionable information and the structures to address the problem.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

I've mentioned this for years (" Social marketing and aberrant driving ," 2020, " When the car lobby encourages law breaking ," 2012), but only recently after some high profile deaths is the city addressing this (" Reckless drivers in spotlight as D.C. Sometimes there are issues, admittedly, but mostly it's recklessness.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. Haynes 2012. Law and Social Inquiry 43(4): 1427-1457. The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. Early views of social media (e.g. Bird et al. Corruption kills. Ling and K.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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.

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Poverty & Policy

JUNE 12, 2017

The law that created TANF also set a time limit on eligibility for SNAP, but only for able-bodied adults without dependents They usually can receive benefits for only three months in any given three years unless they’re working or participating in a work preparation program at least half time. SNAP Benefits Limits.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

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. However, the movement’s electoral success in 2010 did not carry over to the 2012 midterm elections.

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