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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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2024

The city agreed to provide a certain level of personnel and budget, with transfer of active management of the park to the third party nonprofit, which raised additional monies for staff, maintenance and improvements. Asking questions like "why is our meager budget earned from pavilion rentals paying for security?"

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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

2013) suggests that social activism in online spaces such as YouTube is not easily defined, but is adapted to suit movement needs—which makes social media a popular and flexible venue for activism but also highlights the challenges for scholars studying such venues. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). A study by Vragara et al.,

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 16, 2025

Marshals Service; and Bureau of Prisons, with an annual budget over $37 billion. The justification of this concept is that law belongs to "the people" and is supposed to be free of bias. In fact I wrote about this wrt education test scandals in DC in 2013: -- " Why inspector generals often don't seek the whole truth. "

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

I finally finished reading The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks (" How did our national parks come to be? Leahy served as solicitor for the US Department of Interior and is the author of a definitive casebook on federal public lands law. Urban federal parks to complement the big Western parks.

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