Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

While the Roxbury initiative was voted on, twice, it didn't pass (" Separatist City of Mandela : Boston Voting on Proposal to Let Black Areas Secede ," Los Angeles Times ). Mandela versus electing Black leaders.

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Policy Chats

MARCH 11, 2024

“In 2021, the Riverside County Board of Supervisors voted by a vote of 4 to 1 to adopt a Supervisorial district map for the 2020 round of redistricting that was really fraught with a lot of controversy. That means it dilutes the Latino voting power and their capacity to elect a representative of their choice.

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Partnership for Public Service

JUNE 21, 2023

While all our Sammies finalists represent the very best in government, this award grants special recognition to the finalist who receives the most votes from the general public.  Continue reading to learn more about these outstanding civil servants and vote for your favorite to be crowned the 2023 People’s Choice Award winner.

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NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

DECEMBER 15, 2023

ELECTION LAW: Federal District Court Judge Orders Georgia Lawmakers to Redraw Congressional Map for the 2024 Election Anne B. congressional maps presented to the court dilute and diminish the Black population's voting power in the Atlanta area. Hemenway —Senior Attorney On October 26, 2023, in three cases similar to the U.S.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 23, 2024

On Thursday, Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, who believes too much money is spent on law enforcement and not enough on social services, held a news conference in MacArthur Park to announce several partnerships and social service initiatives. Theyre going to try ," LA Daily News ).The economy, present and future.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 23, 2024

In the past few years, there have been several bills, such as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), the CHIPS and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), that have significantly increased the federal share of infrastructure funding for the first time in decades.

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

They use zoning laws to control land use in a way that prevents water contamination; they manage water supply systems and it’s their job to determine the effectiveness of national water management programs. But the local governments play a huge role. We think this is a particularly pertinent time as election day draws near.

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zencity

MAY 3, 2023

Few things could be more exciting for us, or represent a higher vote of confidence in Zencity’s mission and future, than Maurice’s growth from a customer, to an advisor, and now to our COO. I can’t wait to see the impact Maurice will have on our efforts to serve the needs of local government and law enforcement leaders across the world.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 16, 2022

Constitutional case law examines (1) the necessity of a local government’s proposed affordable housing activity and (2) whether the private sector is “unable to meet the need.” 744 (1938) (holding that the Housing Authorities Law serves a constitutional public purpose); Mallard v. Housing Authorities Law. Chapter 157).

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

But one commenter wondered why PMRA had not taken a similar stance when North Carolina passed a law in 2013 that undercut voting rights that disproportionately affected minority citizens (subsequently invalidated by the U.S. Court of Appeals). .

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. million Americans have registered to vote on the holiday. Read on to learn more about how organizations use AWS to make it simple to register to vote.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 26, 2024

At the heart of our democracy, election poll workers serve as the guardians of the voting process. A proven track record with following local, state, and federal CRA (Consumer Reporting Agency) laws and regulations. Sterling is not a law firm. Their role is pivotal in maintaining the integrity and smooth operation of elections.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

” 4 Starting nearly half a century ago, antitrust law in the U.S. ” Two, as several government officials told me, issues related to subverted price competition in housing and mortgage markets generally have little, if any, impact on election voting outcomes. Naturally, those opposing reform often exploit these fears.

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Masters in Public Administration

JUNE 13, 2011

Public administration is putting laws in action to better serve a civilization and the public. In modern voting, this process is often called the political machine and is now done in a less blatant way. It’s a subject we can learn a lot from and learn where we might be headed when implementing new laws. At this time the U.S.

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ResourceAssociates

AUGUST 17, 2020

45 CFR 75.113 – Disclosures re: Violations of Criminal Law. Now, if your HR department and Board of Directors independently interviewed all of the applicants, and the decision to hire your sister was made without your vote (to mitigate your personal conflict of interest), you might be ok. All Standing Executive Orders.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Clean Energy Fuels One of the last ways we vote is with our dollar, so learn about the companies that run their delivery trucks using clean fuels. This blog follows clean energy news and discusses developments and laws on the topic. See how this pro puts away canned items to get her family through the winter. Let us count the ways!

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

Another area that I would chalk up to a failure of planning leadership is the discussion of proposed changes to the height limit law. Even though the Office of Planning made a reasonable proposal which would only increase height by 25% (I think it could have been higher), the City Council did not vote in favor of considering a change.

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zencity

MARCH 20, 2023

This is due to the erosion of civil liberties, freedom of the press, and the rule of law, in more than half of democratic countries worldwide. They have municipal elections, voting on bonds, laws, and referendums. The report notes that democracy has been in decline globally for the past 15 years.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 8, 2023

One example is online participatory budgets , which enable citizens to vote for how they would like public spending to be allocated toward an initiative. In a direct democracy, citizens are responsible for voting directly on policies and laws. How is participative democracy different from direct democracy?

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Democracy is made up of factors such as voting rights, freedom of the governed, and minority rights. Freedom House” gathers data on democracy across the world, broken down into different indicators including rule of law, electoral process, political rights, and civil liberties.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JANUARY 21, 2025

This post, co-authored by Kristina Wilson and Tyler Mulligan, also appeared on the Coates’ Canons Local Government Law Blog here. The open meetings law requires all official meetings of public bodies to be open to the public. 708 (1996) as described in a law review article ( here ) and summarized in a blog post ( here ).

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

New York City zoning laws require minimum off-street parking in many areas, which often results in an oversupply of parking spaces where market demand for off-street parking is relatively low. These mandates increase development costs, reducing the feasibility of new housing projects and ultimately limiting the supply of housing.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Rather than adamantly saying "no," I came to realize that since advocates mostly lose out on such initiatives--except if the city or state requires a public vote--we should be focusing on mitigating the problems from such facilities and increasing the benefits. I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 24, 2022

And the Governor says when progressives complain, "Vote." The other thing that the State Legislature is very good at is laws directed at Salt Lake City, taking away local authority, such as to create historic districts. Before we moved here, a referendum was passed to have an independent redistricting commission. But he has good pr.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

From protecting civil rights to counting the votes, it’s hard to imagine a stable democratic future without the machinery of modern government. And I think a key part of this disconnect, illustrated by the pushback I got when I started asking about the sinks, is this ingrained disregard for working people by policy makers in DC.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

They were anxious, angry and resentful, raging against federal bureaucracy, liberal government programs and policies including health care, immigration reform and labor laws, abortion, and gay marriage (Berlet, 2010), a formula usually too broad and set up for disaster in collective action.

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The Lowe Down

JANUARY 4, 2022

For the 2020-2021 academic year, public schools had to implement various policies regarding social distancing and masking to be in accordance with the new federal, state, and local laws. As a result, I gather additional county-level data on Trump vote shares, poverty shares for families ages 5-17, and non-white population shares.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 9, 2023

-- " Senate votes to block controversial DC crime bill ," CNN I haven't written a blog entry on this, just comments, and comments on Washington Post article. In this case, how the law would be perceived in the world of public opinion, and the competition between Republicans and Democrats. This letter to the editor (" The D.C.

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Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

JULY 22, 2021

and his brother-in-law L. trillion American Rescue Plan without any Republican votes. Even before that, at least 26 Republicans were touting the benefits of the measure to their constituents while neglecting to mention they voted against it. In 1954, William F. Buckley, Jr., Brent Bozell, Jr., government.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 3, 2025

One of the strands from which the planning profession in the US was birthed was out of women-initiated "good government" and "good places" initiatives in a time when women still didn't have the right to vote. 3, Supplement. Women and the American City (Spring, 1980), pp.

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Poverty & Policy

JUNE 12, 2017

The Council’s unanimous vote for a policy more protective than what the Mayor originally proposed is maybe the biggest high point of this budget season. SNAP Benefits Limits.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 26, 2017

They’re mandatory because the laws that authorize them require the federal government to spend as much as necessary to cover the costs or its share of costs for the benefits of everyone eligible to receive and enrolled to get them. How then they may vote, as it doesn’t say, but needn’t.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 16, 2025

The justification of this concept is that law belongs to "the people" and is supposed to be free of bias. The campaign would definitely raise the profile of law, Constitutional Law, and the federal criminal justice system. Elect the Attorney General/Make the Department of Justice an independent Executive Branch agency.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 13, 2025

A vote that would have eliminated the Department of Education failed to garner the needed 60 votes to pass in the Senate in 2023. He would need congressional approval in order to shut down an agency. Uncertainty won't help either. People will decide not to take government jobs. It will definitely reduce office demand regardless.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JULY 30, 2024

It did this by committing to vote its shares pro rata with how non-government investors voted, with only a very few specific exceptions, and to have an independent board supervise the company.]]

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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] times ratio is reached in the future. [20] 5), paragraphs 8 and 9. [22]

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