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How city governments can navigate the fiscal cliff

American City & Country

Promote transparency and accountability: Enhance transparency in budgetary processes and expenditures to increase trust with constituents. Regularly publish detailed financial reports, hold public forums, and engage the community in budget discussions.

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5 Ways That Agencies Are Ailing From Legacy Systems

GovLoop

“Agencies have had difficulty finding employees with such knowledge and may have to pay a premium for specialized staff or contractors,” according to a recent report on modernization from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The problem is that HR services and the underlying technology have evolved, but NFC has not.

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

To actually succeed, the author describes that focusing instead on the political agenda and allowing males that may be attempting to save the “boys club” will eventually look like a liability to the elected position and eventually turn out of favor with his constituents. Links attributed above to phrases or accounts: [link].

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Best practice capacity building efforts that I've come across: -- " Building civic engagement systematically: Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods ," (2022) -- " Framingham Massachusetts creates Citizen Participation Officer position " (2018) -- " Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Eight | Civic Engagement and Positive Promotion of Democracy ," (2024) (..)

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

The Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman for the Obama administration published to his Medium account “[the] American people will see a multi-platform streaming and social broadcast of the State of the Union that reflects the ways people experience live events in 2016. We’ll be reaching people where they are?—?and Look out world.