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Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2010 and 2012 I wrote about such initiatives for the Detroit Zoo (actually located in Oakland County) and the Detroit Institute of Arts, which were caught up in the city's bankruptcy. mill tax for the Detroit Zoo they approved in 2008. Brooks Patterson (" The rise of Oakland County is built on Detroit's Fall ") died).

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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] Q1: What problem was the government trying to solve when it placed the two GSEs into conservatorship?

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

That’s because both are government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). The GSE Background Over a century ago, Congress began creating public-private hybrid corporations known as government-sponsored enterprises. government, allowing them to borrow at near-Treasury rates, lower than any regular private sector company or bank could.

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Creating a results-focused city government: An interview with Michael Nutter, former Mayor of Philadelphia – Episode #138

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

What is the value of evidence and data for elected city leaders as well as how can those leaders create a results-focused culture within city government? We get insights from Michael Nutter who served for eight years at the Mayor of Philadelphia, from 2008 to January 2016.

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Accelerating the secure exchange of public health data with AIMS, powered by Ruvos and AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

To support the swift exchange of critical health information across public health laboratories, governments, and organizations, APHL teamed up with Ruvos, a consulting firm and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner that specializes in health informatics and information technology, to create a secure messaging platform on AWS.

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Former White House officials highlight the value of early planning for presidential transitions

Partnership for Public Service

Long-term planning is essential for a potential new administration to be ready to govern from the first day in office and carry out its agenda in an effective and efficient manner. The book includes 30 declassified transition memos about Bush administration policies from 2008 and 2009 and made public for the first time.

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Advancing connector technologies for multicore optical fibres

Open Access Government - Technology News

Against this background, Japan established a “Technical Committee on Extremely Advanced Optical Transmission Technologies (EXAT)” in 2008, intending to further expand optical fibre transmission capacity. The first practical optical connector for MCF was the MU type MCF connector developed in Japan during 2012 (1) (Fig. References R.

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