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Overcoming the Digital Divide: Lessons State and Local Governments can Learn from the Hospitality Industry

Government Technology Insider

This ensures fast, reliable connectivity to support everything from public programs at the library to live streaming public meetings to online constituent services. With most operating on aging technology, it’s already hard enough to balance the bandwidth demands of library guest users, for example, alongside staff video calls.

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Arbor Day: Street Trees of Seattle by Taha Ebrahimi | Trees as Cultural Landscape (at the community scale)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To get people beyond the single event of planting a tree, it has to be built into the programming--greening beyond Earth Day. US Forest Service community involvement and educational publications. Less so now, the US Forest Service had a massive publication program, including items focused on K-12 education and adult learning.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But the South Hall vendors I don't think want more competition and the city and CAC members think it's more important to make revenue from facility rental to otherwise support subsidizing operations of the rest of the market. It operates Thursday-Sunday in two local business districts. Do a food fermentation operation.