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Honoring the Americans With Disabilities Act

GovLoop

Before the ADA, Public transportation, such as trains, were not required to have handicap access. Capitol, and then roughly 60 people relinquished their walkers and other mobility aids to crawl up the Capitol steps as part of the protest. It became known as “the Capitol Crawl.” Businesses could refuse to hire the disabled.

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How To Create a Marketing Plan for an Entire Year Even if Your Library’s Strategic Plan Sucks or Is Non-Existent!

Super Library Marketing

You decide to rent a vehicle or research public transportation. If you don’t feel comfortable approaching senior leadership, ask your supervisor to step in. That’s how I discovered the city is home to a 170-foot water tower shaped like a catsup bottle that just happens to be on the National Registry of Historic Places.

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Recreation planning and financing failure in Philadelphia: 11 of 12 public swimming pools have closed

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This past few weeks I have been on fire in identifying and writing about gaps in public and private writings.) And the last third is about worst practice and system and leadership failure. Also in not funding "civic engagement" and capacity building to help third party nonprofits raise money and support for indoor swimming.