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How Secure is our Election System?

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

The election system of `the United States was designated a critical infrastructure in 2017. The integrity of our election system is essential for citizens to trust the outcome of local, state and national elections. Mary Hall is an award-winning elections administrator and leader.

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Washington Post editorializes about Purple Line cockups, inadequately attributes them to Larry Hogan

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: As The Post’s Katherine Shaver reported , the start date for the 16-mile light-rail link between Montgomery and Prince George’s counties could slide another seven months, into mid-2027 — or about five years after the completion target of March 2022. The culprit for this latest glitch is the relocation of utility lines.

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Need for social marketing initiatives around installation of neighborhood traffic calming initiatives: Salt Lake City

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mayor Erin Mendenhall and council member Dan Dugan swap out a 25 mph speed limit sign for a new 20 mph sign in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Traffic calming has been a revolutionary treatment in sustainable mobility focused transportation for the last 20+ years.

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Defining deviance down: Disorder and cities in 2022

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since that year, police records show, transit officers have dramatically shifted away from enforcing fare evasion across the rail and bus system, with citations and arrests numbering less than 300 last year, compared with more than 15,000 in 2017. Transit fare evasion in DC (and elsewhere).

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The White House’s Focus on Closing Costs: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

.” Two, as several government officials told me, issues related to subverted price competition in housing and mortgage markets generally have little, if any, impact on election voting outcomes. In other words, vote totals in the next election are now visibly in play. 4 See Fred Ashton, October 2022, America Action Forum.

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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.