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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Public Policy Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Since then, there’s been a flow of federalism or states’ rights cases heading to the Supreme Court, on a regular basis” (Bomboy, 2013). Accountability and transparency standards must be strengthened as well as lending practices monitored as opposed to the borrow now and cross your fingers later approach to lending. 2013, July 18).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This let the system get sloppy in terms of finance, budgeting, and understanding why "WMATA is so successful at funding operations from farebox revenue." Step 2: Separate planning from budgeting. Too many transit services in the DC area make planning subsidiary to budgeting. They charge two. Maybe this is no longer necessary.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Even neighborhood associations. 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)

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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