2016, 2018 and Government - Public Administration Today

The Future Is Customer-Centered

GovLoop

JANUARY 3, 2023

There was a time when government paid little attention to what we now call “customer experience” (CX). In 2018, the Office of Management and Budget made VA a lead agency partner to pilot improving CX across the federal government. Her goal is to see that approach throughout all of government. The Vision. The Obstacles.

2016

2016 Constituents Government Agency 2015

Dean Mark Long: Affirmative Action in College Admissions-Does it Matter?

Policy Chats

JANUARY 20, 2023

From 2004-2022, Long was a Professor of Public Policy and Governance and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Washington. He served as the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance's Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs (2018-19) and Associate Dean for Research (2016-18).

Public Policy

Public Policy 2002 2004 2016

Affirmative Action in College Admissions-Does it Matter?

Policy Chats

JANUARY 20, 2023

From 2004-2022, Long was a Professor of Public Policy and Governance and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Washington. He served as the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance's Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs (2018-19) and Associate Dean for Research (2016-18).

Public Policy

Public Policy 2002 2004 2016

Affirmative Action in College Admissions-Does it Matter?

Policy Chats

JANUARY 20, 2023

From 2004-2022, Long was a Professor of Public Policy and Governance and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Washington. He served as the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance's Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs (2018-19) and Associate Dean for Research (2016-18).

Public Policy

Public Policy 2002 2004 2016

Affirmative Action & College Admissions-Does it Matter?

Policy Chats

JANUARY 20, 2023

From 2004-2022, Long was a Professor of Public Policy and Governance and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Washington. He served as the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance's Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs (2018-19) and Associate Dean for Research (2016-18).

Public Policy

Public Policy 2002 2004 2016

Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 4, 2023

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. That money provides a base level of support independent of fare revenues and government appropriations. It's probably too little too late.

2008

2008 2013 Budgeting Transportation

NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 23, 2023

City/government revenues from the lease are minimal. Interestingly, in 2018, feeling inadequately appreciated, the Penguins (hockey), Pirates (baseball), and Steelers (football) commissioned an economic impact not unlike the one performed for Salt Lake's NBA All Star Game. 350,000 maximum annual lease payment.

Economic Development

Economic Development Development Events 2018

Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

And it imposes rules on the other properties, but doesn't do too much enforcement and oversight on recycling from multiunit residential and commercial properties (" Reformulating building regulations to promote sustainability, " 2016). In Greater Salt Lake, governments mostly don't do glass recycling directly.

Parks And Recreation

Parks And Recreation Operations Transportation Sanitation

What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

the steady employment engine of the federal government Heathcote captures the issues well. " Since I got involved in urban revitalization I argued that DC had five competitive advantages: 1. historic architecture 2. historicity and identity (the nexus of people, historic architecture, and urban design) 4.

2016

2016 Management 2012 2020

Straws and puffery: USC's DC "campus" as a lever for downtown revival

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And that's where the local government planning functions have opportunities. DC needs to be more innovative to be able to develop its economy semi-independently of the federal government, which was slow and steady and growing for decades, but now no longer is, especially with the impact of what is now work from home post covid.

Economic Development

Economic Development 2015 Education Development

WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. It's about speed versus access. German VV as the model for DC.

Transportation

Transportation Coordinator 2011 2006

The basic lesson of intensification that government officials and activists don't understand: intensification happens first in high value areas, not low value areas

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

neighborhood ," 2019, (" Blaming Walmart for Skyland's failure is misdirected ," 2016," For the first time, Skyland Town Center's revitalization might have a chance: creating a community focused retail destination ," 2018). State Center; Park Heights; etc.)

Housing

Housing Development Article Books

April 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

APRIL 20, 2023

Newsworthy Highlights What’s New in Microsoft Teams at Enterprise Connect 2023 SIP Gateway is now available for Government Community Cloud customers to enable core Teams calling functionality on legacy devices. FedMake Focus on Civilian Government: Meeting Missions with No/Low Code Microsoft’s Power Platform empowers everyone to be a maker.

Public Sector

Public Sector 2023 Document Webinar

With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

The Job Description Is Changing ," New York Times = Other relevant blog entries -- " Reprinting with a slight update, "Arts, culture districts and revitalization" from 2009 " (2019) Cultural quarters and innovation districts -- discussion on the Arabianranta district within " Helsinki as an example of creative industries driving urban revitalization (..)

2016

2016 2017 2014 Economic Development

Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Use the monies to fund and expand transit, especially Metrorail within the city as discussed above and in various postings such as " More on Redundancy, engineered resilience, and subway systems: Metrorail failures will increase without adding capacity in the core " (2016). And separating the Yellow and Green Lines too.

Economic Development

Economic Development 2012 Development 2014

Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

To me, government is more about denying, saying no. From " Revisiting Vision Zero in DC and NYC ": Government has a bias for inaction*. A key point in the iterative improvement of my writings on Vision Zero is focusing initiatives in terms of the "6 E's" of sustainable mobility planning (" Updating Vision Zero approaches ," 2016).

Transportation

Transportation Economic Development Sustainability Development

Missing obvious opportunities to strengthen rail-based transit systems: Philadelphia Navy Yard and improvements to the transit "network"/platform

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

Union Station railyard with MARC commuter train in the foreground.

2015

2015 Transportation 2019 Development

FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The Court justified Feres on policy grounds, primarily due to the unique federal character of the relationship between the government and Armed Services personnel and already available federal remedies or compensation similar to workers' compensation relief in the civilian sector. at 143; see also United States v. DeVries , 139 S.

2019

2019 2020 Legislation Supervision

December 2022 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Microsoft Public Sector

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These features currently available to Microsoft’s commercial customers in multi-tenant cloud environments are now rolling out to our customers in US Government Community Cloud (GCC), US Government Community Cloud High (GCC-High), and/or United States Department of Defense (DoD). Microsoft 365 Government Adoption Resources.

Public Sector

Public Sector 2022 Document Webinar

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

2008

2008 2014 2019 Press Release

Third place issues

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Also see " Back to school #2: education unions should create multifaceted public education "meeting halls" comparable to AIA chapter "architecture centers" " (2016). Union halls and fraternal organizations too (like the Masons). There are two problems. Cost of property is expensive.

Books

Books Fundraising Accountability Article

The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. Government has a bias for inaction. There's a letter to the editor in yesterday's Washington Post , " D.C. must step up on road deaths." It's a good letter. I started writing a response in the comments, but it was too long.

Transportation

Transportation 2010 2019 2014

Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

In response, Democrats in California and Massachusetts, Republicans in Utah and Montana, and city governments across the country have enacted legislation designed to address the barriers that restrict new housing development. The increased targets led to changes in behavior from local governments, too. Kim, UC Irvine.

Housing

Housing Laws 2007 Regulations

The Future Is Customer-Centered

Dean Mark Long: Affirmative Action in College Admissions-Does it Matter?

Affirmative Action in College Admissions-Does it Matter?

Affirmative Action in College Admissions-Does it Matter?

Affirmative Action & College Admissions-Does it Matter?

Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Straws and puffery: USC's DC "campus" as a lever for downtown revival

WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

The basic lesson of intensification that government officials and activists don't understand: intensification happens first in high value areas, not low value areas

April 2023 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

With the post-covid decline of Downtowns, arts and cultural institutions are affected too

Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Transit as a formula for local economic success and improvements in regional quality of life

Missing obvious opportunities to strengthen rail-based transit systems: Philadelphia Navy Yard and improvements to the transit "network"/platform

FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?

December 2022 - Microsoft 365 US Public Sector Roadmap Newsletter

Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

Third place issues

The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

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