Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 27, 2024

The parents have been hyper about speeding cars, and the neighborhood and our District 6 Councilmember is more concerned about traffic safety these days because a nearby elementary school had a traffic fatality last year (" Yard sign, Person running for District Six Council in Salt Lake using traffic safety as a campaign issue ," 2023).

Transportation 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

My intended thesis was around urban planning and civic participation and engagement, because local land use issues are the issue most likely to get people involved in local civic affairs, other than having children and being involved in education issues. But that our management processes aren't set up to do that. Ward Halls/Democracy House.

Parks And Recreation 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

When Republican George Allen wanted to impose new education standards in the 1990s and had a Democratic legislature, he said, the governor appointed prominent Virginia educators to key administration roles and mounted a campaign around the state to build support from lawmakers and local officials — all before any votes were taken.

Voting 52

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 16, 2025

reminds me of an idea I've had for 17 or so years, making the federal Attorney General an executive office elected official with the agency and its reporting agencies like the FBI, independent of the President. The campaign would definitely raise the profile of law, Constitutional Law, and the federal criminal justice system.

Laws 52

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

system seem designed to constrain elected officials who do not respect them. But the Presidential campaign also told us much about the degree to which institutions depend greatly on informal norms. prides itself on a reverence to the constitution, and on being “a government of laws, not of men,” in the words of John Adams.

Public Administration 40

Public Administration Laws Leadership Government 40