Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The simple political reality of this was conveyed to us many year ago by the long-time mayor of Indianapolis William Hudnut, who said (and we’re paraphrasing here, as it’s hard to find notes from the early 1990s): “The real measure of my success is clear when people vote.”. percent in 2021. percent in 2020 to 5.2

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Given the significant political shifts in the UK, USA, and Europe, alongside the fallout from the Indigenous Voice to Parliament vote in Australia over the past year, we believe that diversity in community engagement will increasingly become a key focus for achieving equitable outcomes. So why is it a trend in community engagement?

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Iron Sharpens Iron

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

He founded United Voices for Philadelphia and still engages in voter registration and voting advocacy. In 2006, Andy was selected as one of the top 101 Connectors in Philadelphia, and in 2021, he was named to Pennsylvania’s inaugural 50 Over 50 list by AARP and City&State. Episode transcript available here: [link].

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Librarian.net

JULY 15, 2023

Previous reports from me: June 2020 , January 2021 (did not write a report), July 2021 , January 2022 , June 2022 (did not go to ALA ), January 2023 I filled in for outgoing Councilor Marti Fisk who moved, and was elected to a three-year term starting in 2020. not vendors, corporate members, free attendees) All votes passed.

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Iron Sharpens Iron

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

He founded United Voices for Philadelphia and still engages in voter registration and voting advocacy. In 2006, Andy was selected as one of the top 101 Connectors in Philadelphia, and in 2021, he was named to Pennsylvania’s inaugural 50 Over 50 list by AARP and City&State.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The next stage for Equinox is to become more of a nonprofit arts community development corporation, like Jubilee Housing of Baltimore, which does both studio development and housing. Initially, he turned Equinox into a cooperative, with every tenant holding an ownership stake.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The New York City Council is currently considering the Department of City Planning’s City of Yes for Housing Opportunity (COYHO) zoning reform proposal, and is set to vote on the proposed changes by the end of the year. In 2021, the NYU Furman Center’s Local Housing Solutions published a brief on Reduced Parking Requirements.

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Librarian.net

JANUARY 27, 2022

There were some Round Table readjustments which were mostly paperwork-driven and seemed non-controversial but required voting. We did not get to vote on the Resolution to Support School and Youth Services Librarians Facing Increased Intellectual Freedom Challenges because of time spent discussing TAG which was too bad.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 31, 2023

These findings, highlighted in our 2021 and 2022 polls on public trust in government, raise questions about the overall relationship between the federal customer experience and public faith in federal institutions—a key issue examined in the President’s Management Agenda. Views on experiences with government The latter appears to be true.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021). Partly what got me thinking about city-county consolidation--places like Indianapolis (1970), Knoxville, Macon-Bibb County, Georgia (2012), and what SF and Philadelphia did in the 1800s--was seeing mention of a Brookings Institution report about Pennsylvania c.

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Social Pinpoint

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As the Denton County Transportation Authority’s (DCTA) recent Senior Marketing and Communications Manager, I was tasked with developing and leading the marketing and communications plan for the agency’s GoZone microtransit public involvement project in the spring of 2021. school, work, etc.).

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

history, providing housing and services in record time to more than 72,000 people who fled from Afghanistan in 2021 as American military forces withdrew from the country. These public servants coordinated the largest resettlement of refugees in modern U.S. from all over the world,” she said. People’s Choice Award: Josh Josa, U.S.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. 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. Naturally, those opposing reform often exploit these fears.

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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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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

“Cities were more likely to change their local zoning in 2021 compared with 2014 – and to do so more dramatically,” they wrote. But after the reforms were passed, the next planning cycle in 2021 saw the total jump to 2.5 Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect. million units.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Let alone vote on it. I wrote a bunch about failures of transit referenda in Tampa Bay and the State of Georgia in the 2010s.

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The Lowe Down

JANUARY 4, 2022

For the 2020-2021 academic year, public schools had to implement various policies regarding social distancing and masking to be in accordance with the new federal, state, and local laws. The 2020-2021 academic year has seen a dramatic decline in public school enrollments. These data are not available for the other states. .

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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.

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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. criminal code reform, the D.C.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 22, 2021

July 19, 2021. trillion American Rescue Plan without any Republican votes. Even before that, at least 26 Republicans were touting the benefits of the measure to their constituents while neglecting to mention they voted against it. Worth reading and worth subscribing too, judging by my brief experience so far.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

The Biden administration Since the Biden administration took office in January 2021, almost all GSE reform activities stopped. It did this by committing to vote its shares pro rata with how non-government investors voted, with only a very few specific exceptions, and to have an independent board supervise the company.]]

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Yet this is a powerful vote of confidence. per 100,000 inhabitants in 2021 was almost six times as high as that of the UK and 30 times that of Japan. The US then is an economic powerhouse, so much so that it has persistently run a large deficit in its capital account. Donald Trump protests. Well, its homicide rate of 6.8

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A Republican won the governorship in 2021 and that was a shock although Ralph Youngkin ran a better campaign than former Governor Terry McAuliffe along with lower Democratic turnout. I'm finally learning not to prognosticate too much. It's nice to see Democrats pick up the State House in Virginia and keep the Senate.

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