Center for Community Progress

JUNE 15, 2023

State laws gives land banks their unique powers. Land banking programs, on the other hand, exist in states that don’t have state-enabling legislation, which limits their powers and utility. Community priorities and state laws determine what land banks can do with properties.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 3, 2024

Spearheaded by Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), this bipartisan legislation underscores our commitment to addressing systemic vacancy and property deterioration using the tools available at all levels of government. Casey’s office for our work, and the impact this bill will have on neighborhoods across the country.

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Center for Community Progress

JULY 18, 2022

Revise laws and ordinances and change problematic policies and practices. The state auditor’s new understanding of this much-needed reform allowed Bennet and her colleagues to move forward authoring new property tax sale legislation. Subscribe to our mailing list so you don’t miss out on other free educational webinars.

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GovLoop

APRIL 21, 2023

They can be very helpful: Using artificial intelligence (AI), ADM systems assist or replace human efforts to make potentially life-altering decisions related to public benefits, policing, housing, health care, immigration, education, emergency response, child welfare and other concerns. According to a recent survey, 70% of U.S.

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Policy Chats

MARCH 11, 2024

Assemblymember Cervantes earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of California, Riverside and completed an executive education program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Kennedy School of Government.

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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. Hortonville Education Association, 426 U.S. 1257 courtesy of Cornell Law Institute).

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Policy Chats

MARCH 11, 2024

Assemblymember Cervantes earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of California, Riverside and completed an executive education program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Kennedy School of Government.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 1, 2024

Firstly, fraudulent activities drain public funds, depriving government departments of resources that could otherwise be allocated to essential services like healthcare, education and infrastructure development. Fourthly, fraud is a criminal offence that undermines the rule of law and the foundations of a democratic society.

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iGrantWriters

JULY 7, 2021

In this instance, the term State agency means 1) the State educational agency; and 2) any other agency of the State which has been designated by the Governor or other appropriate executive or legislative authority of the State and approved by USDA to administer the above-mentioned program. States and the District of Columbia.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 23, 2022

Every country needs a basic law that establishes its civil protection system and specifies in broad terms how the system functions. Some countries prefer to treat civil protection and civil defence as a unified function of the central state. The state 3.1 The private sector should be encouraged to follow suit.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Absurdly, it is not treated as a profession and has no career progression or higher education requirements (I should add that the field has an intellectual history that stretches back 101 years). Now every country needs a basic law that broadly specifies the organisation and structure of the civil protection system, and how it works.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Adopting powerful technologies like generative AI must align with principles contained in the GC’s Responsible use of AI of lawful, ethical data usage and explainable outcomes to impacted individuals. Just as a shaky foundation undermines even the sturdiest house, flawed data diminishes the value of the most advanced algorithms.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

APRIL 10, 2024

North Carolina property tax law, nicknamed the Machinery Act, contains many dozens of full or partial exemptions for property as diverse as free drug samples, uranium 233, and Loyal Order of the Moose clubhouses. 2(3) ) for government, educational, scientific, literary, cultural, charitable, and religious property.

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Masters in Public Administration

JULY 18, 2011

Anyone working in or getting an education in public administration can have loads of research to do and little time. There are also specialized searches such as Thomas , which allows viewing of legislative documents, and Copyright , which shares information related to copyrights. Returns often include government and education entries.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 20, 2023

History suggests that any proposed changes to single-family zoning, whether related to MH or not, will be hard-fought, both at the local level and also at the state level when legislation is proposed to override local zoning. After all, 20 percent of all MH owners go this route, so the right educational approach could well increase this.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 10, 2025

Outreach and public education should be targeted both by neighborhood and by the characteristics and vulnerabilities of particular homeowners. Provide zoning-related education. 23 While advocates applaud the UPHPA as a major step toward protecting vulnerable homeowners, the law protects against only certain types of predatory actions.

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Death and Taxes

MARCH 30, 2021

Support from this event has a tremendous impact on the School of Government’s ability to continue providing advising, education, and support to North Carolina public officials. My work involves helping people understand local government law issues, and every day, people thank me for the help. Please join me in supporting this work.

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Government Technology Insider

MAY 12, 2022

Last year, on March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan into law. Among other important measures this piece of legislation seeks to fund critical programs to drive economic recovery and to make the temporary fixes permanent through investment in modernization. Listen to the full podcast here.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The companies operating in the public sector, including water, healthcare, electric utilities, and education, cannot afford downtime. This has prompted legislative action from many governments, as seen following the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, which shut down the pumping operations of a major US oil pipeline.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

I write that for the most part, DC's legislators have it pretty good. But the fact is that Congress does have the final authority on approving local legislation, even though the DC Home Rule Act of 1973 pretty much created local control of local governance. This letter to the editor (" The D.C. I proudly wear my “51” hat.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004). It also requires participation across the spectrum of agegroups, ethnicities, genders, educational levels, orientations, and so on. Clarity, trust, welfare, care and equity are needed, now.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 5, 2024

Legislators haven’t seriously considered measures to discourage drinking, and voters expanded access to alcohol in grocery stores. Experts say raising state alcohol taxes also would make more money available for programs aimed at preventing unhealthy drinking and to enforce the state’s liquor laws. That’s no coincidence, experts say.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 1, 2017

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. But most beneficiaries surveyed had jobs requiring few specialized skills, and only a third had any education beyond high school.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MAY 1, 2025

Kendall Green at Gallaudet was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. This will educate you about preservation issues in your area. Preservation Action is a 501(c)4 advocacy group that advocates for specific legislation and is also a membership group. Walk the historic grounds of a local college or university.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Advocates for what may be the largest voting block supporting Trump II – non-college-educated households (“working families”) – who will seek to protect their access to the affordable GSE 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. [3] 9] ) Congress passed legislation in 2012 that included a 0.10

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