AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Key topics covered include addressing concerns around data sovereignty, security, lock-in risks and budget control while highlighting AWS capabilities and commitments in these areas. Cost and budget control concerns The AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program covers the cost of storage for publicly available cloud-optimized datasets.

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Barrett & Greene

MARCH 8, 2023

State auditors should have unfettered access to confidential records to ensure that state agencies are following their policies and procedures and state and federal law. Office of Management and Budget require that auditors adhere to Government Auditing Standards, including those standards pertaining to independence.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

When Congress passes and the President signs major legislation, federal agencies must translate it into practical action to ensure its goals are realized. Our work to date The Partnership for Public Service has developed resources – detailed below – to help leaders implement these laws for maximum impact.

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Public Policy Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Scott Bomboy of the Constitution Center mentions that “the concept of nullification–that states can overrule federal laws–predated the Civil War by decades, and the ultimate issue of nullification (secession) was settled in the 1860s. 1257 courtesy of Cornell Law Institute). If that law is federal, then the U.S. 482, 488 (1976).

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 8, 2023

Town hall meetings are a great way for local and national politicians to meet with constituents to hear their opinions on topics they are interested in or to discuss upcoming legislation. One example is online participatory budgets , which enable citizens to vote for how they would like public spending to be allocated toward an initiative.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

Another area that I would chalk up to a failure of planning leadership is the discussion of proposed changes to the height limit law. I chalk that up to a failure of leadership and approach. The Height Limit discussions. I won't go into it, because it has been discussed elsewhere.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

In response to that growing criticism plus how much has changed in markets, legislation, and regulation during the 90-plus years of the FHLBanks’ existence, its regulator – the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – announced in 2022 that it would undertake a review of the entire System. billion for fiscal 2024.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

” 4 Starting nearly half a century ago, antitrust law in the U.S. 23 There has even been legislation proposed in Congress to legally require the tri-merge report, 24 overriding the FHFA’s proposed reform. Additionally, they are not represented by a single industry association to maximize clout, but by several. See [link].

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2023

The borrower of a conventional mortgage benefits tremendously from the evolution of the TBA market, which was not centrally planned or created by legislation but evolved over several decades as a collaboration between government mortgage agencies and the bond trading and investing community. These are your most affordable models.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 1, 2017

Trump’s Office of Management and Budget Director made the same point. Under current law, SSDI recipients may try to reenter the workforce for a year, if they earn no more than $1,170 a month or a bit more than that if they’re blind. Further fodder for Congressional Republicans eager to “reform” so-called entitlements.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Summary of federal and state law considerations Below is a summary of the major points from this post. Emergency loans for construction of new housing are authorized by the Housing Authorities Law (G.S. 1] Local government legal authority to offer home repair loans is limited under state law. 42 USC 5301(c). 570.200(a)(3).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 25, 2025

Such groups may be necessary in the face of municipal budget cuts (" LAs Tree Emergency Goes Beyond Vandalism ," Planetizen) and failures by agencies (" Salt Lake Citys Public Lands Department accidentally poisons 200 trees ," Salt Lake Tribune ) and misguided legislators (" Are trees the enemy? Trees as woke.

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