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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There were a series of articles by smaller communities, about how the quality of their city as an events-sports destination was high, despite the size of the community or whether or not they actually had a sports team, for example Fort Worth doesn't (" Here’s why Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena was named Billboard’s No. 1 venue in the world."

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Personally, I think an arena is probably an acceptable choice, especially as it likely will increase transit ridership to events--the team estimates that the 70% of trips to the current arena will drop to 40%, with the much better transit location of Market East. Most economic development planners don't know the difference.

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Announcing customer and guest speakers for Max Peterson’s Leadership Session at re:Invent 2022

AWS Public Sector Blog

Dr. Whitson, former chief astronaut at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), completed her first mission to space in 2002—with an extended stay aboard the International Space Station. She also served as the first female chief of the NASA Astronaut Office at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston from 2009 to 2012.

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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The scenario for a major pandemic was developed over the period 2003-2009 and was first incorporated into emergency plans close to the start of this period. Before the event, welfare was in decline, social relations were fractious in many places, and solidarity was under threat by exploitative forms of economics and hegemony.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

The Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman for the Obama administration published to his Medium account “[the] American people will see a multi-platform streaming and social broadcast of the State of the Union that reflects the ways people experience live events in 2016. Bush administration in 2002. Bush in 2004. Why or why not?