Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

There is a local walking and transit advocacy group called Sweet Streets , that helped promote this change.) That scandalizes my MIL, but I'm not about to get into a debate with her about how the car companies and their allies changed the definition of street to be car centric instead of people centered.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. John Kelly/The Washington Post) I'm saddened by this. These debacles in MoCo have been the subject of multiple Metro section articles.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

But other cities out West too, bigger like Boise, and smaller like Ennis, Montana or at trailheads in the Wasatch Front like Bell Canyon (" New trailhead expected to help grow one of Salt Lake County's more popular trails ," KSL) which has a great facility and definitely no concerns about the homeless because it is so remote.

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Librarian.net

JULY 10, 2021

Midwinter, now called LibLearnX for some reason, is in San Antonio and will definitely be a hybrid meeting and I do not plan to attend in person. Obviously there are a lot of benefits to attending in person as well but the costs are one of VLA’s largest expenses.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

My dissertation was on the rhetorics of advocacy in Appalachia, and I knew from my field research that nonprofits in the region could use help with their communications and grant writing. It was an unusual move, but my advisor expressed confidence in me and was happy for us (we were both her students and she had seen us fall in love).

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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. How much do we manage the park for people and for fauna is a question definitely not posed by the existing master plan. There was definitely a participation boost.

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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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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

Nevertheless, the advocacy I have found with respect to MH demonstrates some confusion regarding this fundamental. I found additional advocacy approaches designed to support a claim that MH structures will appreciate much like site-built structure-plus-land housing.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Basic Definitions and Facts MH had a questionable reputation before it began an upgrade from its low-quality origins many decades ago. MH units 1 currently account for about 6% of the U.S. housing stock, including both owner- and renter-occupied housing. In Part 3, I describe what implementable policy leverage points make sense, in my view.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. Seattle's Feet First advocacy group is a great resource for such programs. There's a letter to the editor in yesterday's Washington Post , " D.C. must step up on road deaths." It's a good letter. So a blog entry is better.

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Barrett & Greene

JANUARY 22, 2024

Sometimes, it’s in the interest of a reporter or an advocacy group to avoid looking further than a single digit and use it as representative of a full story. “If It’s definitely a challenge in doing research and being open to numbers that challenge your hypothesis. It takes some real effort to get past that.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 23, 2024

Some argue it's co-opted by elites and there's definitely truth to that. But definitely after the US took out the troops, the big reason or impetus for activism faded. There are protests at University of Washington today (" Student walkout: Updates as WA students protest Israel-Hamas war ," Seattle Times ). I don't know why exactly.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MAY 31, 2023

It is important to clearly state that the analysis in this article is based on the economic reality that if a loan does not have an interest rate that is appropriately risk-adjusted for its creditworthiness, then by definition there will be cross-subsidies in operation, even if that is not overtly stated.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

He specifically distinguishes social movements from political parties and advocacy groups. Social Media Definitions. Whether it’s the beginning of actual change is debatable and often times difficult to measure the effects but it definitely amplifies efforts for changes of all kinds all over the world.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 7, 2025

The current media focus on conservatorship exit, therefore, seems to be driven more by advocacy than by coldly-calculated prediction of what Trump II’s policy priorities will be in 2025. The Summary on Pages 1 to 4 is definitely worth reading. 13] This view is not shared widely, or by me. [14] 14] See [link].

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

In any case, Portland's Tri-Met is a definite outlier. Either approve almost everything, or don't approve anything. Although I don't see how the Trump Administration would attack the Market. Especially in a highly Democratic city like Seattle. commission backs down on censoring art ," Washington Post ).

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Poverty & Policy

JUNE 8, 2017

What this means is that we could see a joint budget resolution that delivers program-slashing instructions to the committees that initiate definitions of what programs in their area can and can’t do and the maximum agencies can spend on them. We can donate to advocacy organizations, if we can afford to, join their social media campaigns, etc.

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