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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Consider, for example, the role of the Internet and social media. As they lend a sense of immediacy and connection, social media have strengthened that relationship, and never more than in times of disaster. The intervening years have produced conflicting signals. This is practical solidarity in its most direct form.

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City of Boulder, CO Integrates PBB into Budget as the "Framework within which all Budget Decisions are Made!"

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

They deeply and fundamentally understand how to implement and utilize PBB, and their community has benefited tremendously from the city's continued and evolved implementation of PBB. We at the CPBB applaud your continued unique approach to implementing PBB year after year. Congratulations again to the City of Boulder, CO!

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The Future of Recycling Programs and the Role of Community Feedback

zencity

From 2014 to 2019 alone, the number of communities offering composting programs grew by 65 percent ! Residents were very disappointed and let it be known on social media and other channels. By being proactive , the City will be able to make sure that its implementation of California’s new law will be a success!

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Transit safety and security: Broken Windows theory and reality | and the state of transit safety today

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Bratton implemented a strategy of “quality of life” policing, derived in large part from the “broken windows” theory advanced by the social scientists George Kelling and James Q. As crime dropped and police needed things to do, this was implemented in communities of color as "stop and frisk" which was later found unconstitutional.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The core claim made by critics is that the changes, implemented on May 1, are a mechanism for a new and major economic cross-subsidy from less risky borrowers to more risky ones. In short, this was a classic media-political firestorm about a relatively technical topic that is normally of interest only to those inside the mortgage system.