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Big omission in blog series on advance hospital/health and wellness planning, public health planning: addiction services

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Experts say raising state alcohol taxes also would make more money available for programs aimed at preventing unhealthy drinking and to enforce the state’s liquor laws. That’s no coincidence, experts say. Currently, the department charged with regulating Colorado’s alcohol outlets can’t afford to fill all its open positions.

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Governments Find Strength in Numbers

GovLoop

Increasingly, government leaders recognize the need to approach cybersecurity in the same way they approach public health: There must be a holistic network in which the well-being of individuals, or individual systems, depends on and benefits the well-being of others.

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FIRST AMENDMENT/PUBLIC HEALTH: Freedom of Religion During the COVID-19 Pandemic

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, many aspects of our lives have been severely altered and restricted in the name of public health. A state's exercise of its police power is presumptively constitutional, especially when public health and safety are implicated. COVID-19 Pandemic. See Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Cannon , 553 F.

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CED through Local and Regional Food Systems: The Latest Resources

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

A new resource for local CED professionals, especially those working directly with elected boards and local government administrators working on formalizing food system work through adopted policies and laws was released this morning (January 17, 2023).

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The Top 10 Local Government Conferences of 2022

zencity

But before we do so, we want to quickly look back and reflect on 2021. Over the second half of 2021 alone, the Zencity team attended over 40 government conferences across 22 states – and even crossed the pond to take part in a few UK local authority and policing events. See you in Michigan! When: May 1-3 Where: National Harbor, MD.

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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

In preparing for that interview, I looked at the websites for all of the city's Advisory Neighborhood Commssions (ANCs are block and neighborhood specific councils that weigh in on matters before DC government) and just a handful had transportation/public space committees. And public health. The issues are unchanging.

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Privatization of municipal utility systems (water mostly)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Britain has created big problems by privatizing its water and sewage systems, abetted by minimal regulation and even more minimal fines which seem to have zero punitive power in getting the companies to follow the law. Flint, King George's County, Virginia, etc.) The better option is more forensic.