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What’s the deal with rural land banks? A Q&A with West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation Executive Director Taylor Bennett

Center for Community Progress

Land banks are a powerful tool to address vacant properties in rural communities, and West Virginia passed land bank enabling legislation in 2014. Bennett has served as the Executive Director of WVLSC since 2021. CP: You played a key role in advocating for West Virginia’s land bank-enabling legislation.

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Why Data Leaders Are Talking About Outcomes

GovLoop

If faced with skeptical leaders or legislators, you won’t win them over by talking data standards and policies. That alignment is one of the objectives of the State Department’s 2021 enterprise data strategy, titled “ Empowering Data Informed Diplomacy.” You need to talk impact.

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Preparing NOW for expected challenges

Librarian.net

“In September of 2021, we saw a 60% increase in challenges year to year from the previous year,” Vermont doesn’t get as many of these challenges but they do get some. — Angie Manfredi (@misskubelik) November 3, 2021. I wanted to make you aware of an issue concerning book challenges. Y'all better get ready.

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Are combination inspectors a good choice for municipalities?

American City & Country

This can be seen more recently after events like the 2021 Surfside, Fla., Florida made legislative changes requiring buildings that are three stories or higher and more than 30 years old, to undergo a milestone inspection. condo collapse that killed 98 people and the Grenfell Tower fire in London, killing 72 in 2017.

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Fostering Financial Literacy in New York State: How's It Going?

Barrett & Greene

The average household in New York was carrying $53,830 in debt at the end of 2021; although less than the national average of $55,810, it is a new high for the state. New Yorkers’ per capita student loan debt of $6,180 was 11th in the nation in 2021 and marks an increase of 335% since 2003. A few of the alarming findings: ​.

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Montana Maps Infrastructure Spending to Ensure Equity 

GovLoop

With the $350 billion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), Montana officials had around $900 million in economic stimulus funds to work with. Legislators want to see ARPA funds spread evenly across Montana. Prior to joining Esri in 1997, he was the first GIS coordinator for the city of Ontario, California.

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Public and private sector cooperation is vital in controlling cybersecurity threats

Open Access Government - Technology News

The attack – which disabled digital services used by the NHS’ 111 medical advice helpline to refer patients for care, including appointment bookings, emergency prescriptions, and ambulance dispatch – left health workers being forced to rely on pen and paper to coordinate services. legislation, the findings are universal.