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How Livingston Parish prepares for natural disasters by improving resiliency in the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

Such was the case for the 911 system in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, an agency that dispatches for 21 public safety agencies including law enforcement, fire, and emergency medical services, and averages over 325 calls for service per day. When a natural disaster strikes. “In Not just for our agency, but for the people that we serve.”.

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DC Public Safety Summit, Wednesday May 10th, 9am

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DCCF has also alerted us to a "public safety summit" tomorrow, convened by Mayor Bowser, and bringing a lot of public officials to the table, with citizens invited. DCCF has a post, " Questions for Mayor Bowser's Public Safety Summit ," providing lots of questions to be asked of the public officials.

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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?

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H Street NE nightlife district, failing?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

," 2013 -- " DC and streetcars #4: from the standpoint of stoking real estate development, the line is incredibly successful and it isn't even in service yet, and now that development is extending eastward past 15th Street ," 2015 -- " The streetcar and the new potential for H Street retail revitalization ," 2016 this is an important piece.

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City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

By looking at many factors of the City’s operations, Priority Based Budgeting starts to identify services areas that are important to our community ,” said City Manager Sam Anselm. “ But there has not been enough growth in the city's general revenue fund to pay for all the city's operational costs along with pay raises for city employees.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But the South Hall vendors I don't think want more competition and the city and CAC members think it's more important to make revenue from facility rental to otherwise support subsidizing operations of the rest of the market. It operates Thursday-Sunday in two local business districts. Do a food fermentation operation.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

cuts speed limit to 20 mph to curb pedestrian deaths: a step forward but not enough | New thoughts on a comprehensive Vision Zero agenda ," 2020 In " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC " (2021) I made these points: 1.