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What's Happening with the Fire Service?

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

In May 2016, Mayor James Kenney appointed Adam Thiel to serve as the 20th Fire Commissioner for the City of Philadelphia. From 2014-2016, he was a Deputy Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security for the Commonwealth of Virginia. How do you measure up when it comes to experience and education? and 30,000 employees.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: In a news release sent out Wednesday, officials said that the organizations’ Boards of Directors will meet on May 1 to start “months-long discussions about how to efficiently provide, fund, and govern public transit.” I first understood the DC area transit planning gap in two dimensions. And financing.

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Municipal finances face a shaky future

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Politicization of public policy, which has stalled Congress on immigration and other key issues since the 1980s, has been spreading among state and local governments. But rising prices and interest rates will press budgets, especially for capital planning. budgeting smartly. Communities growing have less at risk.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

7 Additionally, GSE subsidies and privileges are crafted to largely avoid showing up as a federal budget expenditure, thus avoiding competing with other priorities for scarce tax dollars. The two companies have no lobbyists or lobbying budget and make no political donations of any kind. More political than commercial.

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PERFORMANCE READER’S GUIDE (PART 2)

Barrett & Greene

Manoharan , executive director of the National Center for Public Performance at the Institute for Public Service (IPS), Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University; Robert Shea , chief executive officer of GovNavigators and former associate director of the U.S. Brian Elms with J.B.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

taxpaying public. 12 This means that the taxpayers are now officially (again, using FHFA calculations) earning a sub-standard return on their investment, providing what amounts to a large, hidden, and never-congressionally-approved economic subsidy to the GSEs, 13 which is not good public policy.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. gentrification crisis?