Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 12, 2023

"), and that often means suburban locations where adjacent land is more easily acquired and controlled by the team, it was announced that Monumental Sports is negotiating with Virginia for a Potomac Yards location (" Lawmakers vote in favor of plan to bring Capitals, Wizards to Virginia ," Washington Post ). Flickr photo by Ken Lund.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 21, 2024

Cities cost money to operate. Cities have to earn money to pay for all the things that people say they want. An art gallery type building won't have near the economic return as a sports arena, provided it is super well planned. The monocentric subnetwork of the DC Metrorail system serves the core of DC.

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Economic Development Development Parks And Recreation Housing 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Of that 2021 total, none took place in the District. Transit fare evasion in DC (and elsewhere). 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.

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Public Safety Public Transportation Voting Transportation 52

AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

On September 20, 2022, Americans celebrate National Voter Registration Day with a massive cross-country effort to register voters ahead of the federal midterm elections. million Americans have registered to vote on the holiday. Read on to learn more about how organizations use AWS to make it simple to register to vote.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

.” 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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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 15, 2022

Representative to the Organization for American States were submitted to the Senate nearly a year ago and are still awaiting votes. embassy in Kabul closed after the Taliban takeover in August of 2021, and American diplomats now operating thousands of miles away in Doha, Qatar. Mora for the U.S.

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Partnership for Public Service

MAY 30, 2023

With this year’s finalists announced and voting for our 2023 People’s Choice Award now open, the question of how the public perceives civil servants is high on our minds. Views based on political affiliation Our 2022 data shows that 62% of respondents view civil servants favorably, while only 19% have more negative views.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

-- " Senate votes to block controversial DC crime bill ," CNN I haven't written a blog entry on this, just comments, and comments on Washington Post article. It might well happen again with the bill allowing illegal immigrants and other noncitizens to vote in local elections.

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