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JUNE 10, 2022

Digital tools are not only for larger cities It’s true that a majority of municipal software solutions, including those for handling citizen service requests, are not designed for smaller local governments. For context, Hastings Highlands is a town of 4500 permanent residents with 10000 calling it home on a seasonal basis.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

This was the only working repair stand and air pump on the stretch of the trail I rode, probably because it was both newer and sponsored by a law firm. But I just presumed that local trail standards included wayfinding and directional signage and the occasional map. And bike repair stands and air pumps--although most were broken.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

Rivero, now an executive government advisor at AWS, has experience making data work for government. Law enforcement personnel could identify spikes in overdoses and send their task force to area hospitals to interview individuals and determine where the drugs were sourced. “By We were also able to evolve and iterate.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 11, 2023

So a local preservation law is needed, to be able to counter such threats. They pass a law and property owners, not the city, have to pay for it. But most media coverage of preservation never covers this. So I was surprised to see it recognized in a recent article. At the same time, for a city, preservation is pretty cheap.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

1) Have several, if not all of the four government mortgage agencies, 6 strongly support and subsidize “chattel loans” (i.e., 2] Also, See Fannie Mae, “Manufactured Housing Landscape 2020,”( [link] ). million MH units (meaning structures) in 2020, 4.8 Of the total of 6.7 million or 71% were owned, and 1.9

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 24, 2022

Top right, how Republicans organized the state's House districts after the 2020 Census. In the 2020 cycle, into all four of the districts. Preemption of local action. The other thing that the State Legislature is very good at is laws directed at Salt Lake City, taking away local authority, such as to create historic districts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

But the fact is that Congress does have the final authority on approving local legislation, even though the DC Home Rule Act of 1973 pretty much created local control of local governance. In this case, how the law would be perceived in the world of public opinion, and the competition between Republicans and Democrats.

Public Safety 52

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

However, this can be hard to discern at times due to inflation and property values benefitting from continuing expenditures to maintain them, and especially during strongly price-appreciating markets (such as the pandemic-distorted years of 2020 and 2021); nevertheless, it is true over the long-term. ” [link]. [9]

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

DECEMBER 21, 2020

23, 2020), was announced under the authority of the Constitution and the Defense Production Act of 1950 (the "Act"), as amended (50 U.S.C. §§ 4501 et seq.). The Attorney General also stated that he was working to protect the health and safety of his personnel while ensuring the law was enforced "at full throttle." Executive Order No.

Sanitation 40

Sanitation Laws Local Government Implementation 40

The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Arguments erupted over the role of local government regulations, from mask mandates to dining capacity limits, on shaping business activities. Figure 1 displays the growth in business applications in each state from 2012-2020, where one can observe the varying growth in business applications across the United States.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For the past two and a half years, times have not been good for state and local governments or the millions of the people they are -- or, once were -- responsible for serving. Since early 2020, , more than a million people in the U.S. Gordon, lead coordinator of the Continuity of Supply Initiative (CoSI).

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

While the response to Hurricane Helene continues, local governments are looking ahead to the long road to recovery. This post describes the legal authority and practical considerations for local governments seeking to serve in the role of financial bridge. Detailed legal analysis of each point follows after the summary.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 16, 2025

Trumps false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Bondi also went beyond rhetoric; she worked with other Trump advisers to build a strategy in Pennsylvania to use those false claims to challenge the 2020 election results in the courts unsuccessfully, it turned out. I have to believe my alternative would be better.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Note that I think my Signature Streets concept is more expansive (" Extending the "Signature Streets" concept to "Signature Streets and Spaces" ," 2020). -- Complete Streets webpage , US DOT, via archive.org It's not the end of the world. Planning and building for the city you want to be versus planning for the past.

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