Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

On June 6, 2013 stories about a secret US government surveillance program that started in 2007 code-named “Prism” appeared 20 minutes apart on the websites of the Washington Post and the UK newspaper the Guardian. Washington Post Began PRISM Story Three Weeks Ago, Heard Guardian’s ‘Footsteps’ Huffington Post, 7 June 2013.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 26, 2023

One of the comments on the article made a point about a local "Government Accountability Office" function. I've written about this over the years, " Continued musing on restructuring DC's City Council (mostly) " (2013), is probably the most complete summation of recommended changes. More of that, please."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I have other pieces about options for funding. -- " Metrolinx Toronto: 25 potential tools to fund transit-transportation infrastructure ," 2013 suggests a more structured process for identifying funding than an interview published in the Post. Maybe this is no longer necessary. Funding options. The best would be a transit withholding tax.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Howerton, who served Ennis for 32 years before retiring in 2013, became an early mentor to Earp. Each Hub was given a particular theme, such as “strategic operations and innovation,” “accountability and compliance” or “community engagement and experience,” to name a few. Members hold each other accountable, according to Earp. “I

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 2, 2024

the park, being jointly owned by the city and county, has interesting problems with capital funding, as the agreement calls for joint and equal funding, leading to lots of paper and accounting issues. So it took 8 years to construct the first new pavilion.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

More than 106,000 people are already living in the central core, a 61% increase since 2013. One example might be rezoning in Belltown and on blighted Third Avenue to encourage taller buildings and residential development.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 22, 2023

With the continued investment in Power Automate as the universal solution to workflow, Microsoft is retiring SharePoint 2013 workflows. When this will happen: Starting April 2nd, 2024, SharePoint 2013 workflows will be turned off for any newly created tenants. Update your user training and prepare your help desk.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

By one account at least, Ukraine is in the midst of harnessing exactly that method to turn the energy of Russian aggression into potent fuel for an impressive program of root and branch reform of government and the public sector. Defence becomes attack. Aggression is transformed into strength.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 19, 2022

MC391952 — Microsoft 365 Assessment tool for SharePoint 2013 workflows available now! SharePoint 2013 Workflows platform was introduced 10 years ago. SharePoint 2010 Workflows was retired as of November 1st, 2020 with the notice that we would also retire SharePoint Workflow 2013 in the future. Microsoft 365 Assessment tool.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

Even under the new system, heavily white, wealthy cities that got lower targets than other cities responded to those targets just like everyone else—by committing to more density, providing authors further evidence that legislative reforms spurred action and accountability in how California cities plan for housing.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Current users have access to their accounts via Power BI for the Web and can switch to this option any time prior to retirement. To change your location from Teams, simply click on your profile on the top right corner of the Teams window, view your account settings menu and change your work location for that day.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

9] Such PLS bond investments fell into an accounting category where the capital of the GSEs had to reflect the market value declines of the bonds, which were quite severe, rather than the smaller but still significant actual losses that appeared over future years. [10] percent per year, less than half the rate of house price inflation. [5]

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Microsoft Public Sector

JULY 20, 2023

As announced earlier, InfoPath Client 2013 will reach the end of its extended support period on July 14, 2026 ( link ), and to keep an aligned experience across Microsoft products, InfoPath Forms Service will be retired from SharePoint Online. Thank you for your patience. Teams will not receive the change at this time.

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Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 19, 2023

MC693865 — SharePoint Add-In retirement in Microsoft 365 >365 Days Since the release of SharePoint Add-Ins in 2013, Microsoft has evolved SharePoint extensibility using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) enabling you to write applications that can be used in Microsoft SharePoint, Viva Connections and Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Public Sector

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This policy was implemented to give admins better control of this transition, particularly for older versions of SharePoint 2013 on-premises deployments. How this affects your organization: You can assign outbound caller ID numbers for the agents by specifying one or more resource accounts with a phone number.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 16, 2025

Makan had average entree costs significantly out of step with being located in a neighborhood, not Downtown or key restaurant districts like a Georgetown DC, where patrons go out for special meals, often on business accounts (Also see " Why restaurants are fighting to avoid being special-occasion spots ," Crain's Chicago Business ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). A study by Vragara et al.,

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

Queens and Brooklyn account for 88 percent of all at-risk homes (for data reasons, Staten Island is not included in our analysis). Table 1) Queens and Brooklyn account for 88 percent of all At-Risk and Higher Risk properties identified in our analysis. Queens and Brooklyn account for 88 percent of At-Risk and Higher Risk properties.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

MH units 1 currently account for about 6% of the U.S. Having to travel down highways naturally accounts for its long thin shape (which acts as a considerable design constraint). 24] Rural areas account for approximately 14% of the U.S. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing. population.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Buildings are envelopes. -- " More thoughts on suburban hipness (it's really about commercial hipness generally, not urban vs. suburban) ," 2013 -- " BTMFBA Chronicles: Seattle coffee shop raises money to buy its building ," 2018 This came up in DC many years ago. That you can have a cool space, even if the exterior is dull.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending. 24] See the G-fee Report of 2013, issued in November 2014. For several reasons, in my view, the argument is not substantially valid.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Mooney, Christopher (2013). Links attributed above to phrases or accounts: [link]. Women in the state legislative power structure: committee chairs. Social Science Quarterly , 77(4), 888-898. Measuring State House Speakers Formal Power 1981-2010. State Politics & Policy Quarterly, 13(2), 262–273 DOI: 10.1177/1532440013484478.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

billion of “agency MBS” accounts for almost 70 percent of all first-lien (i.e., Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that operates as a common securitization utility to facilitate the issuance of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) to finance the loans insured by FHA, VA, and USDA. [2]

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. Use the daypart model, account for seasons, city-wide events that you may or may not be able to leverage, and organize it by program area -- food, arts, etc.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 7, 2025

Helping scientists conduct global research with Govplace and AWS In 2013, OPA migrated its application environment to Amazon Web Services (AWS) , deploying applications in AWS GovCloud (US) to gain on-demand scalability. To learn more and get started, contact your AWS account team or the AWS Public Sector team.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

One of Ackerman’s examples is the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), which hired IDEO in 2013 to redesign the school district’s cafeterias. The five-month design-thinking process resulted in 10 recommendations, including creating a communal kitchen and using technology to reduce cafeteria lines.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 28, 2025

Today, taking into account the twists and turns in the PSPA described above, Treasury holds warrants on 79.9 The only precedent is the AIG bailout and its resolution, [14] which occurred between 2011 and 2013. However, if not cancelled, what to do about the $341 billion outstanding?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

I have thoughts on this in " What is an inclusive city? " (2013) but I can't say it's super specific. Another indicator is tree cover, which significantly lags (" Since When Have Trees Existed Only for Rich Americans? ," New York Times ). Urban forestry is usually a responsibility for city transportation agencies.

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