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The 50 Best City Manager Blogs, Sites, and More

Masters in Public Administration

A city manager is often charged with managing the city’s budget, various offices, and a ton of other responsibilities. This can include but is not limited to a master’s degree in a relevant area, on the job experience working for a city, and supervisory skills. Best West City Manager Blogs.

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Emphasizing ‘people over position’: 2023 Exemplary Public Servant James Earp

American City & Country

Despite being voted “most likely to be president” in high school, James Earp’s path to public service wasn’t a direct one. Since signing on as city manager for fast-growing Hutto in 2022, Earp has leveraged his passions for leadership, finance and education to help reshape the city’s operations with an emphasis on collaboration.

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Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It attributed the issue to management failure and said the vacancies have accelerated the agency’s steadily deteriorating financial condition. The City Council is worked up about it (" D.C. Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ). Housing Authority better ," Post ). Bowser’s six D.C.

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20th anniversary of the blog| Urban revitalization systems thinking's greatest hits: Part two -- not transportation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Main Street commercial district revitalization practice grew out of HP and a desire to save "old buildings" in the face of the development of shopping centers, chain retail, and broken microeconomies. Very soon into my writing, before the blog, a bunch of DC cultural institutions failed, so this became an ongoing topic.