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What You Need to Know About the Financial Data Transparency Act

NLC (National League of Cities)

Background on the Financial Data Transparency Act of 2022 Earlier this year, Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Mike Crapo (R-ID) introduced a bill in the Senate titled the Financial Data Transparency Act of 2022 (S. This legislation included a section requiring local governments to adhere to new financial data standards.

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How Nomad uses Amazon IVS to scale public court livestreams

AWS Public Sector Blog

To make hearings visible to the public, even when in-person attendance is limited, state and local governments are beginning to mandate many court proceedings be live streamed, often with a very short window to do so. Read more about AWS for state and local government: Working backwards from Vision Zero to improve road safety.

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Celebrating Legislative Wins to Combat Vacancy in Missouri and Alabama 

Center for Community Progress

Effective legislation is a vital piece of equipping state and local governments to effectively address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties (VAD). This year, legislative sessions in Missouri and Alabama saw big wins to advance community revitalization. Missouri (HB 2062) In Missouri, the St.

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What Are CIOs Thinking in 2022

Barrett & Greene

Our series about the future of state and local government jobs , is being published this week by Route Fifty. In 2019, 25% of CIOs selected “reskilling” compared with 35% in 2022. In 2022, that was listed by 71% of CIOS, compared with 44% in 2019. and demanding more from government.”.

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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

The Detroit Land Bank Authority (DLBA) is the nation’s largest land bank, with over 75,000 properties in its inventory as of 2022. One facet of the legislation stipulated that Michigan land banks must be created by intergovernmental collaboration between a county and the state land bank. Why are there so many land banks in Michigan?

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The Death and Life of Great Global Democracies?!

zencity

By invitation of the Solonian Democracy Institute , and alongside delegates from 60 countries, I was asked to speak to the value and contribution of Zencity to practices of direct democracy in the local governments we work with. The Future of Democracy The forum began by referencing the 2022 Global State of Democracy Report.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. Decker, Andrew.

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