Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 1, 2023
DC, not being particularly sophisticated politically, was ripe for the picking, and local elected officials welcomed them with open arms. But the elected officials wanted it to happen - - JOBS! miles from our house in Fort Totten, making our area likely the most densely served by Walmart of any other area in the US.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 23, 2024
Council’s turn away from progressive crime strategies ," Post ).
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Public Policy Blog
JUNE 16, 2013
Professional government employees are vital partners for these officials and do [or should do] the day-to-day operations of the government, procure products and services, supervise, develop budgets for programs and execute tactics outlined in strategy put forth in part by our elected officials. Overeem, Patrick (2012).
AWS Public Sector Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
On September 20, 2022, Americans celebrate National Voter Registration Day with a massive cross-country effort to register voters ahead of the federal midterm elections. million personalized election notifications through TurboVote, answered over 23,000 individual voter inquiries through their Help Desk, and gave 6.5
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
MARCH 30, 2024
Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). I don't understand why elected officials can't figure this out. My point is pretty clear. Losing sucks.
Rebuilding Place in Urban Space
APRIL 18, 2024
I hadn't thought about it, but maybe SLC is ripe for the double deck bus approach (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012) for rebranding and repositioning of bus service as sexy, even though the ridership numbers wouldn't justify it otherwise. Sometimes they're led by the elected official for that district.
Public Policy Blog
JUNE 16, 2013
Approximately one year ago, on June 13, 2012, Representative Lisa Brown (D-Bloomfield) uttered the word that runs ice through the veins and casts fear into the hearts of male elected officials: Vagina.
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