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How Secure is our Election System?

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

First elected Thurston County Auditor in 2013, Mary Hall’s elections career began in Pierce County in 1996. First elected Thurston County Auditor in 2013, Mary Hall’s elections career began in Pierce County in 1996. The podcast guest is Mary Hall, Auditor, Thurston County, Washington.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In 1998 and 2013, Houston changed its land use laws by reducing permissible lot sizes across the city, in turn, opening up areas dominated by large single-family houses to denser development. The median townhouse on a formerly single-family lot in 2020 had an assessed value of $340,000. Reflect Land Use Policy Changes?

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In extremis: what Ukraine 2.0 tells us about reforming government and the public sector

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

DIIA launched in 2020, was the centrepiece of this effort. Turkeys, it seems, will always find it hard to vote for Christmas. But what began as a means to mollify exasperated voters quickly became part of Ukraine’s struggle for survival. The public put far more faith in civil society than in official institutions.

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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

We mostly dealt with drug and gun crimes, but got robberies, assaults, murder, etc. testimonies too.

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DC's crime bill overturned by Congress

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

-- " Senate votes to block controversial DC crime bill ," CNN I haven't written a blog entry on this, just comments, and comments on Washington Post article. But after a 2020 election when perceptions of being soft on crime hurt many Democratic candidates, the D.C. I proudly wear my “51” hat. criminal code reform, the D.C.

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(Reprint) Electing a Federal Attorney General and a Chief Inspector General | Expanding Democracy

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Trumps false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Bondi also went beyond rhetoric; she worked with other Trump advisers to build a strategy in Pennsylvania to use those false claims to challenge the 2020 election results in the courts unsuccessfully, it turned out. Actually this is true at all levels of government.

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning, Part Six | Art(s) in the Park(s) as a comprehensive program

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. Lee statue with a revisionist exhibit placed around it (" Monuments, historiography, and change ," 2020). presidential election. And there were alternatives. E.g., I thought it would be cool to reinterpret the Robert E.