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State Department Bets Big on Data-Driven Diplomacy

GovLoop

Data on how a particular country voted on U.S.-sponsored This article appeared in our guide, “ Leveling Up With Data.” sponsored U.N. resolutions over time may help inform our decision to support a future resolution sponsored by that country,” writes Paula Osborn, the department’s Deputy Chief Data and AI Officer.

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February is African-American History Month: Urban planning history -- the attempt to make Roxbury a separate city from Boston

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I was surprised to come across a Boston Globe article (" Roxbury, Mattapan, and parts of Jamaica Plain could have become a separate Black majority city. While the Roxbury initiative was voted on, twice, it didn't pass (" Separatist City of Mandela : Boston Voting on Proposal to Let Black Areas Secede ," Los Angeles Times ).

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Does Mail-in Voting Actually Increase Election Participation?

The Lowe Down

Article By Noah Hendelman. The 2020 United States presidential election saw a major increase in mail-in voting as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. California is the largest of the eight states that currently allow all elections to be conducted by mail and has utilized mail-in voting as far back as 1962.

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Community Engagement Trends for 2025

Social Pinpoint

Given the significant political shifts in the UK, USA, and Europe, alongside the fallout from the Indigenous Voice to Parliament vote in Australia over the past year, we believe that diversity in community engagement will increasingly become a key focus for achieving equitable outcomes.

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Vermont Chapter Councilor Report – ALA LibLearnX 2023

Librarian.net

There were 12 articles that did not have amendments suggested and we zipped through them. On the articles that did have amendments, they concerned with various things. – Article V – Makeup of the Executive Board in the absence of Council, what representation was the optimal makeup and who votes for them. (I

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The most momentous transportation story of 2025 has already occurred: imposition of NYC's congestion zone

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Now what? ," Los Angeles Times ) for fear it could swing votes to Republicans, only to go on to agree after the election. They've been studying the issue for some time, a date was set (" A $15 toll to drive into part of New York has been approved, a first for a U.S. hoped to learn from NYCs congestion pricing rollout.

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Community safety partnership for MacArthur Park in Los Angeles?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the fourth article: In MacArthur Park, its not as if the problems have been ignored, nor are they easy to fix. The neighborhood is primarily made up of low-income Spanish-speaking people, many of them undocumented residents who cant vote and can be easily ignored even though theyre a critical part of L.A.s