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25 Exciting Career Paths in Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

If looking for a degree in public administration , there can be more to it than just program rankings and salary questions. Because there is no one path to a career in public administration as there is with doctors or lawyers, what to do with your degree can be confusing. Public Administration Consultant.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says ," Washington Post ). Housing Authority better ," Post ). From the article: The U.S.

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: Metro’s prospects for replacing hundreds of millions of dollars in fare revenue that vanished during the pandemic appeared to be waning as stimulus money runs dry, particularly as weary elected officials watch the agency struggle during a year-long train shortage. And that the WMATA Board should be elected.)

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V for Vagina: The Anniversary of Michigan Representative Lisa Brown’s Vagina Monologue

Public Policy Blog

Approximately one year ago, on June 13, 2012, Representative Lisa Brown (D-Bloomfield) uttered the word that runs ice through the veins and casts fear into the hearts of male elected officials: Vagina. Pete Lund, (House Speaker) Jase Bolger, (Rep.) Image: Washington Post. Following the *audacity* that Rep. Jim Stamas, and (Rep.)

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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

I stopped testifying when I realized that the city's elected officials either didn't understand or care. It's not a matter of not knowing what to do, but how to get support and to pay for it. gentrification crisis?

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Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Now the Intermodal Center just houses intercity bus services. -- Rio Grande Plan The plan proposes a tunnel to redirect the railroad passenger services back to the station, as well as a rerouting of the Trax Green Line, with railroad service in a tunnel behind the station and light rail service in front of the station.

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Public Administration Under Trump: An Age of Institutional Decline? By Don Moynihan

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Public administration can be seen as the study of people, organizations, and institutions. The institutions part of that formulation has become a good deal more important since the election. Such use of voice may create concerns of a political public administration that were leveled against the New Public Administration.