A Library Writer's Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

Special Issue title: “Case Studies of Social Justice in South Asian Library and Information Science” for The Serials Librarian (URL: [link] toc/wser20/current ) to be tentatively published in November 2022. Important Deadlines: Abstract Submission Deadline: March 31, 2022. Editors: Drs. Bharat Mehra and Mohamed Taher.

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A Library Writer's Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Here are some possible topics to get you thinking: Unique Libraries Special Collections New buildings Fundraising Improved Workflows Staff Development Advocacy Efforts Community Partnerships That great thing you’re doing at your library! Submit your proposal by Friday, December 16, 2022.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 26, 2023

Philadelphia's Design Advocacy Group, uniting more than 2,000 professional architects, designers, and planners, has come out against the proposal too, because it argues it will have a deadening effect on Market Street at the ground level (" A large Philly-based group of architects and designers just came out against the 76ers’ arena plan ," PI ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 15, 2024

Needless to say, the local business advocacy group didn't agree. But overall since the region's development paradigm is sprawl, drive ins are huge. Rachel Rydalch | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Chick-fil-A on 2100 South in Sugar House has historically generated a long drive-thru line, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Suzanne is into them.

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Center for Community Progress

AUGUST 30, 2022

On August 5 th , 2022, Community Progress and forty-three supporting organizations across the country submitted a public comment calling for the modernized Community Reinvestment Act to center racial equity and embed land banking strategies. You can read our comment here. Recognize the work of land banks as CRA-eligible.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The State oegislature makes it exceedingly difficult to create locally designated historic districts with controls over development. Yalecrest is a neighborhood historic district in Salt Lake City. A National Register historic district provides protections only against federal undertakings--urban renewal, a freeway, etc.--so

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Mayor Erin Mendenhall and council member Dan Dugan swap out a 25 mph speed limit sign for a new 20 mph sign in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.)

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

When I got my job in 2014, there were 208 tenure-track Spanish positions advertised ; in 2022 there were only 44. So in Spring 2022, I decided to leave my academic job at the end of the semester. That trend continues today, and even the jobs that are posted are less likely to be tenure-track every single year.

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Death and Taxes

JANUARY 28, 2021

Here is the description of the webinar: The economic disruption of COVID-19 will substantially affect state budgets in coming fiscal years, with an estimated $275 billion in revenue losses through fiscal June 2022. Join us on December 8, 2020, from 1-2:30 p.m Joe served COST as chief operating officer & senior director, policy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In reality, it’s likely a mix of factors, including more speeding, heavier vehicles, dense development concentrated around multilane roads, and a decrease in traffic enforcement. In Washington, 75% of deadly crashes in 2022 involved one or more of the “fatal four”: impairment, distraction, speeding, and not wearing seat belts.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For example, emerging and distressed commercial districts aren't likely ready for street furniture, and need more assistance in developing organizational capacity, compared to healthy districts, or those in later stages of transition. Access to restrooms for the homeless. Transexual access (something I didn't bring up in the proposal at all).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

This blocking has been enabled by extensive political advocacy and lobbying, especially aimed at elected members of Congress and state legislatures, and stands out for how effective it has been. Industry lobbying and advocacy are now also focused on the CFPB in response to its public announcement of an investigation. Appraisals.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 18, 2024

Note that the streetcar has been particularly useful in stoking development (" Streetcar through Sugar House and South Salt Lake has spurred up to $2B in economic growth ," Salt Lake Tribune ), which contributes to density, which helps to build the foundation for shifting more trips to sustainable modes.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Part 2 examines eight key policy topics, via a Q&A format, that must be accurately understood to develop effective policy that can expand affordable housing via MH. Nevertheless, the advocacy I have found with respect to MH demonstrates some confusion regarding this fundamental.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The FHFA then indicated that it ended this delay and began to employ the newer, higher capital requirement approach beginning in 2022. Individual GSE public financial disclosures do, however, indicate there may have been a modest increase during 2022 (i.e., Under conservatorship, the average G-fee then underwent dramatic change.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The purpose is to establish a solid fact base that is needed to develop effective MH-related policy. MH units 1 currently account for about 6% of the U.S. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing. and (3) how much do MH structures appreciate in value over time?

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MAY 6, 2024

Hence there is potential for floods that equal or exceed those generated in 2008, storms that may be more disruptive than Arwen was in 2021, heatwaves greater than that of July 2022, and so on. Wales has developed three regional emergency response coordination centres, but the rest of the UK is not following suit. The local level.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 13, 2024

The state has the Jordan River Commission , and the advocacy group, the Seven Canyons Trust , works on creek daylighting issues throughout the County. Plus, most state and local sites don't do a very good job of putting their documents online to begin with One of my ideas is to develop an online database of such historical documents.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 20, 2024

1, 2) To develop effective mental health policies and treatments, it is crucial to understand how Canadians have dealt with the pandemic. TikTok is crucial for political campaigns looking to reach new audiences through digital advocacy. (4) Digital Health, 2022. Paediatrics & Child Health, 2019. 20552076221102253.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Together, AWS and the CBTN will enable researchers and clinicians to share and analyze medical record, imaging, genomic, and other data in near real-time to speed development of new therapies for pediatric brain cancers. World Health Day 2022: Leveraging the cloud to build a healthier tomorrow.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

This forces less high value uses out of the city, counter to the Jane Jacobs point that cities need "a large stock of old buildings" -- based on the assumption of lower rents -- to support the development of innovative uses, and lower value uses that add to the diversity of a city (like a sewing machine repair shop).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

Parks agencies can engage citizens as programming providers, community experts, and volunteers, by creating parks and recreation committees and systems for developing and offering program for each facility. The latter conference includes advocacy activities, while Park Pride focuses on technical training. Whyte and "triangulation."

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

14 Only when government gets involved – which is when policy and political concerns are combined with advocacy by ideological and economic interest groups – does one sometimes see something different, with the inevitably resulting cross-subsidies. 35] See FHFA’s 2022 Housing Mission Report, Table 10 on Page 15.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

She was a leading member of the area transit advocacy group, LINK Houston. But when a concerted organizing campaign was developed, she was chosen to be the face. Interestingly, like a lot of history, Rosa Parks wasn't the first to do this, not even in Montgomery, Alabama (" Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin ," NPR).

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