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Emphasizing ‘people over position’: 2023 Exemplary Public Servant James Earp

American City & Country

Despite being voted “most likely to be president” in high school, James Earp’s path to public service wasn’t a direct one. Since signing on as city manager for fast-growing Hutto in 2022, Earp has leveraged his passions for leadership, finance and education to help reshape the city’s operations with an emphasis on collaboration.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The other element that was educational for me was the velocity of change resulting from the new station. Plus the economic impact on the other four areas, totaling in the billions of new construction. Velocity of positive economic change from public investment. Granted a lot of development was going on in DC at the time.

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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

Some parks or recreation centers might have arts production facilities like a kiln for ceramics and arts education programs. Educational programs. From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. Some parks might have an amphitheater for music and theater presentations.

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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

Some parks or recreation centers might have arts production facilities like a kiln for ceramics and arts education programs. From the article: “Home Land Security” opened a few months after the Brexit vote and ran through the U.S. Some parks might have an amphitheater for music and theater presentations. presidential election.

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The GSEs and the Incoming Trump Administration: Part 1 of 2 – Answering Ten Key Questions About Conservatorship Exit

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

10] Making things even more complex, it is clear from the recent election campaign that Trump II will also look to support what is perhaps its biggest voting bloc: non-college-educated households, which argues against changes that may reduce the GSE’s role in providing subsidized, borrower-friendly mortgages to those households.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

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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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. It might well happen again with the bill allowing illegal immigrants and other noncitizens to vote in local elections. criminal code reform, the D.C.