American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Despite being voted “most likely to be president” in high school, James Earp’s path to public service wasn’t a direct one. Each Hub was given a particular theme, such as “strategic operations and innovation,” “accountability and compliance” or “community engagement and experience,” to name a few.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Maybe he wouldn't if Toronto had ranked choice voting. " on the various way that the city government's execution of basic services is failing. The incumbent of the last 8 years, John Tory, is likely to win.

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PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

JULY 19, 2016

County strategic plan under review Strathcona County’s strategic plan and corporate business plan are undergoing revisions, one of which may see more accountability through firm outcome guidelines. Council members voted unanimously to approve the revised strategic plan and corporate business plan.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ). John Kotter’s Eight Step Model for Leading Change It definitely shows lack of accountability and no sense of urgency to act -2,000 units could house at least 4,000 people. The City Council is worked up about it (" D.C. Housing Authority better ," Post ).

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 31, 2023

adults from Nov. 29 to Dec. 6, 2022.

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Super Library Marketing

JULY 11, 2022

That accounts for about 16.5 More than 70 percent have a Facebook account, and more than 40 percent are on Instagram. Seniors are more likely to vote and more likely to believe in investments in institutions. But in learning about my newfound status, I start to think about how libraries market to senior citizens. Census Bureau.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JUNE 25, 2023

By one account at least, Ukraine is in the midst of harnessing exactly that method to turn the energy of Russian aggression into potent fuel for an impressive program of root and branch reform of government and the public sector. Turkeys, it seems, will always find it hard to vote for Christmas. Defence becomes attack.

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zencity

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

If you were engaged civically, you attended city council meetings, voted, took an active role in civic organizations, or helped to establish community organizations. Today’s blog takes you through both the challenges and the successes of social media’s impact on civic engagement and why it has so much to offer local government.

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Masters in Public Administration

AUGUST 30, 2011

The local government here strives to be accountable and accessible. Believing that Mayor Bloomberg will be reelected for a third time, she uses her blog as a keeper of reasons for why not to vote for the incumbent. You can choose from fire, water, and other Portland entries. One of the latest posts was on the proposed budget.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

By most accounts, the need for affordable housing across North Carolina is massive. The resultant (lower) fair market value, pursuant to an appraisal that accounts for the covenants and conditions, may be used as the fair market price for conveyance to any buyer, whether for-profit or nonprofit. 160A-279 for the conveyance.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

In Part 1 of this series, it was estimated that total closing costs for both buyer and seller accounted for at least 7 to 11 percent of the purchase price of a typical home, surpassing the average 6 to 7 percent down payment made by first-time homebuyers (FTHBs). In other words, vote totals in the next election are now visibly in play.

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ResourceAssociates

AUGUST 17, 2020

Federal Financial Accountability and Transparency Act. GrantSolutions User Account Access. Now, if your HR department and Board of Directors independently interviewed all of the applicants, and the decision to hire your sister was made without your vote (to mitigate your personal conflict of interest), you might be ok.

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Social Pinpoint

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This gives citizens an opportunity to contribute their knowledge and expertise to decision-making , while also experiencing a level of accountability and community-led thinking that they don’t always have access to. Voting is incredibly useful if you would like community input on future priorities or options.

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zencity

MAY 1, 2022

Community engagement activities need to account for several key things, such as: Platform – Is there access to participation across a wide variety of platforms, such as digital engagement tools, in-person meetings, take-away/distributable surveys, and mobile ideation or feedback-gathering platforms?

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 8, 2023

One example is online participatory budgets , which enable citizens to vote for how they would like public spending to be allocated toward an initiative. In a direct democracy, citizens are responsible for voting directly on policies and laws. How is participative democracy different from direct democracy?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Rather than adamantly saying "no," I came to realize that since advocates mostly lose out on such initiatives--except if the city or state requires a public vote--we should be focusing on mitigating the problems from such facilities and increasing the benefits. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

Even under the new system, heavily white, wealthy cities that got lower targets than other cities responded to those targets just like everyone else—by committing to more density, providing authors further evidence that legislative reforms spurred action and accountability in how California cities plan for housing.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world. In classic accounts, the problem of achieving effective coordination within movements was so great as to be central to the structuring of activism (Vragra, 2013).

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

And that would be a substantial deposit in the “strengthening democracy” account to rescue trust and confidence in democracy and the potential of good government done well. From protecting civil rights to counting the votes, it’s hard to imagine a stable democratic future without the machinery of modern government.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 12, 2016

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

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The Lowe Down

JANUARY 4, 2022

As a result, I gather additional county-level data on Trump vote shares, poverty shares for families ages 5-17, and non-white population shares. To begin, I look at the correlation between county-level trump vote shares of 2020 and the public school growth starting in 2020. These data are not available for the other states. .

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 22, 2021

trillion American Rescue Plan without any Republican votes. About 60% of Americans liked the plan, and it is likely to be more popular still now that checks from the Child Tax Credit extended in it began hitting parents’ bank accounts on July 15.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

One of the strands from which the planning profession in the US was birthed was out of women-initiated "good government" and "good places" initiatives in a time when women still didn't have the right to vote. From the editorial: At its simplest, gender budgeting sets out to quantify how policies affect women and men differently (see article).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

The biggest blemish on their pre-conservatorship record was not related to their ability to purchase and securitize mortgages but to an accounting “scandal” by both GSEs in the early 2000s in which they had to massively restate their balance sheets and earnings. to homeowners on a very large scale.[[The

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The US then is an economic powerhouse, so much so that it has persistently run a large deficit in its capital account. Yet this is a powerful vote of confidence. These are not only far more valuable than those in Europe, but far more concentrated in the digital economy. Donald Trump protests. Well, its homicide rate of 6.8

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