Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

And we’ve emerged with a sense of frustration with many of the nation’s elected officials who boast to the public about businesses they’ve attracted with incentives even when there’s ample evidence that, for the most part, they aren’t the real motivation for corporate site decisions. There’s more.

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Elected Officials Economic Development Press Release Voting 119

GCN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Public-private partnerships and enhanced resource sharing activities have been key to defending against outside threats to voting systems, according to the head of CISA’s National Risk Management Center.

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Elected Officials Voting Management 55

ASPA National Weblog

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Many things have sparked a renewed interest in the vetoing process as I think about accountability and holding elected officials to a higher standard while they make decisions for those who vote them in. I assumed that if I voted, the official would have my best interest in mind. Some good, some not so good.

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Voting Elected Officials Public Administration Accountability 100

Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The simple political reality of this was conveyed to us many year ago by the long-time mayor of Indianapolis William Hudnut, who said (and we’re paraphrasing here, as it’s hard to find notes from the early 1990s): “The real measure of my success is clear when people vote.”.

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Elected Officials Sanitation Public Safety Voting 98

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

At the same time planners (and elected officials) are supposed to be helping the citizens. I think it is the job of an office of planning to name-identify these kinds of issues, for citizens and elected officials, and to help us work through them and come to as much of a consensus understanding as is possible.

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Urban Planning Elected Officials Housing Development 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 29, 2023

when its administrators blunder through years of bad contracting and project-management decisions. The culprit for this latest glitch is the relocation of utility lines. Those decisions have bloated what was to be a five-year project with almost $2 billion in construction costs into a nearly 10-year, $3.4 billion undertaking.

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Elected Officials Voting Legislation Management 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

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. It attributed the issue to management failure and said the vacancies have accelerated the agency’s steadily deteriorating financial condition.

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Housing Government Elected Officials Leadership 52