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Citizens Benefit from Application Modernization and Identity Management

State Tech Magazine

A criminal record can be a life sentence to poverty, creating barriers to jobs, housing, education and more,” the nonprofit notes on its website. Code for America advocates easing the citizen experience in clearing criminal records when appropriate. “A

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States Can Unlock Opportunities for Millions in 2024

State Tech Magazine

For 77 million people in America — 1 in 3 adults — a criminal record creates significant barriers to finding a job, receiving an education and maintaining safe housing. And for decades, the process for clearing such a record has been a bureaucratic nightmare. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Library’s Spectacular Success: A Day-Long Cardholder Event Draws Crowds in Record Numbers – Unveiling the Secrets Behind the Triumph!

Super Library Marketing

He planned and wrote educational video games for the speech-language pathology field. Then he worked at an arts and culture magazine. I’m still downtown, working a block away from that magazine, trying to have a direct impact on this community. The Eau Claire, Wisconsin native earned a degree in creative and technical writing.

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Plans Vs. Play Books

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

In this podcast we hear from Brad Milliken who’s day-job is serving as an Emergency Management Specialist at the White House Operations Center. In addition to the podcast, you can read his article on the same topic in Emergency Management Magazine, Ditch the Plan and Write a Playbook. He lays out a case for doing planning differently.

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Meet Our Featured Contributor Cohort

GovLoop

Our 32 nd Featured Contributor cohort recently kicked off, and there is already no shortage of informative and educational blogs to learn from. Amy Cloud is a media relations and PR professional with 20 years’ experience in healthcare, higher education, municipal government and emergency management.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

," illustrates those ideas--record stores, clubs, artists living there, record labels, the KEXP-FM rock radio station, practice spaces, recording studios, music education programs in Seattle Public Schools, etc.,

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Three | Planning for Climate Change

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Planning at the landscape scale for Sugar House Park: the cultural landscape. Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) High water levels in Salt Lake City's Sugar House Park on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. As a result, Sugar House Park was rebuilt in part as a flood control structure. Fortunately this is an infrequent occurrence.