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Better Communications Tops Data To-Do List

GovLoop

Census Bureau offers up an abundance of data that state and local agencies can use to gain insights into the shifting demographics of their constituencies, and to shape policies and programs accordingly. For many agencies, the challenge is learning to communicate those insights effectively. Gardner Policy Institute.

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Ask A Librarian: Dealing with haters?

Librarian.net

In New England we mostly haven’t seen the legislation issues that they’ve had other places. Talk to your local public and school librarians about what would be helpful for them. You could even pony up some money to your state library association and join (even as a non-library person) which would help them do this work.

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Visions of Recovery: Reimagining Long-Term Care

First State Insights

Katelyn Andrews, Director of Public Policy at LiveOn NY, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware's Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about public policy priorities for aging and older adults and her vision for the future of long-term care. For more information, visit [link].

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How to Make Your Voice Heard on Election Day and Beyond — Episode 077

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

We’re thrilled to be joined today by NRPA’s Vice President of Public Policy and Advocacy Elvis Cordova and NRPA’s Senior Government Affairs Manager Kyle Simpson, to talk about some of NRPA’s key legislative priorities, how you can get involved in our advocacy efforts, and you guessed it — the importance of voting!

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EIGHT WAYS TO WRITE FOR IMPACT

Barrett & Greene

Kettl professor emeritus and former dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, we wrote a book titled “The Little Guide to Writing for Impact” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024) The goal of the book was to help academically-trained writers communicate in a way that will make it more likely that practitioners, policy-makers, legislators, (..)

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AGGREGATE TO COMMUNICATE AND DISAGGREGATE TO MANAGE

Barrett & Greene

Michael Jacobson, director of Performance and Strategy at the King County Office of Performance Strategy and Budgets put the matter eloquently when he pointed us some time ago to an he had once heard: "Aggregate to communicate and disaggregate to manage."

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After the Storm: Summary Ejectment and Assistance Programs in North Carolina

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Post-Helene, there is not a moratorium on summary ejectment proceedings, although activists and at least two legislators have called upon the legislature, the chief justice, and the governor for such action. It is possible that the legislature will consider the issue when they reconvene later this month. Creekside Apartments v.

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