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Improving Your Local Government Website 2022: UX, SEO, & More | GovPilot

GovPilot

Does your government website look like it was released in 2003? Was it actually published in 2003? If you’re answering yes to one or either of these questions, it makes sense that you’re considering modernizing your government website.

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2022 in Libraries

Librarian.net

Previous years: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Not a big year for libraries though I did get to one new one in Fairlee. Kimball (56) – Once the library opened, it stayed open.

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2021 in Libraries

Librarian.net

Previous years: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Only my regulars this past year. I picked up shifts at my local library and did a few months at Chelsea Public Library while they searched for a full-time librarian.

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Supreme Court Integrity and the Midterm Elections

Policy Chats

Ramos was elected as San Bernardino County’s District Attorney in 2003 and served in the position until 2019. Ramos was elected as San Bernardino County’s District Attorney in 2003 and served in the position until 2019.

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Climate Crisis, Rising Inequality, Erosion of Democracy, and Big-Power Conflict

Policy Chats

About Anil Deolalikar : Anil Deolalikar has been the founding dean of the School of Public Policy since February 2013 and a professor of economics at UC Riverside since 2003.

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Climate Crisis, War, the End of Democracy, & Social Unrest

Policy Chats

About Anil Deolalikar : Anil Deolalikar has been the founding dean of the School of Public Policy since February 2013 and a professor of economics at UC Riverside since 2003.

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Change takes forever: plastic bag bans, liquor stores and crime

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In fact I was featured on the front page of the Metro section, albeit below the fold, in the Washington Post on Labor Day 2003, on the issue, in an article written by Craig Timberg. I noticed an article that Baltimore County, Maryland is on the verge of passing a plastic bag ban.

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How Phoenix Is Honoring the Life of Lori Piestewa — July Bonus Episode

Open Space Radio: Parks and Recreation Trends

Formerly known as Squaw Peak, the City of Phoenix renamed the mountain Piestewa Peak, in honor of Lori Piestewa, who lost her life in the Iraq War in 2003. As we officially begin our Park and Recreation Month celebrations with the July issue of Parks & Recreation magazine, I’m thrilled to be joined on today’s bonus episode by a few of the people involved with the event highlighted in this month’s cover story.

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Camden Yards baseball stadium is 30 years old

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Camden Yards in 2003. The Ringer has an excellent article, " The Baseball Stadium That “Forever Changed” Professional Sports ," assessing the contribution of Camden Yards--a throwback designed baseball stadium which opened in 1992--to baseball, other professional sports, and cities.

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Tales of Small Business Success

First State Insights

Clair founded Tail Bangers in 2003, and she was named the 2022 Delaware Small Business Person of the Year. Clair founded Tail Bangers in 2003, and she was named the 2022 Delaware Small Business Person of the Year. Lisa St.

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Hear from civil servants who have fought workplace discrimination inside and outside of government

Partnership for Public Service

Bush in 2003, and then serving as acting chairman of the EEOC under President Obama from 2009 to 2010, Ishimaru is credited with rebuilding the agency , which had become underfunded and understaffed.

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Football to Manufacturing: The Divergent Path of Nearby Competitors

The Lowe Down

The results became widely apparent after 2003 when GDP and Gross Value Added (GVA) in the Dominican Republic grew exponentially in comparison to Haiti; technological investments in a country take a few years to pan out. Article by Joseph Zhong.

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Car Prices have been Speeding Upwards. Could “Corporate Greed” be at Fault?

The Lowe Down

Assessing car prices and other data from April 2003 to February 2020, it turns out that four variables have been key in determining car prices: gas prices, the 12-month lagging federal funds rate (i.e., The graph below shows how the CPI for new vehicles has varied from April 2003 to February 2020, along with the variation in one of its determinants, the ratio of car inventories-to-sales. Article by Aryan Totawat. The car market is one of many in the U.S.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Mosalam 2003. Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting map was published by the US Geological Survey shortly after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes. [1]

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COVID-19: Vaccine Inequity (Anil Deolalikar & Bruce Link)

Policy Chats

About Anil Deolalikar: Anil Deolalikar has been founding dean of the School of Public Policy since February 2013 and a professor of economics at UC Riverside since 2003.

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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2003). Trish Sifka —Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group. In May 2021, the Eight h Circuit affirmed the denial of the City of Minneapolis’s and a police officer’s motion to dismiss dog owners’ unlawful search and seizure claim under 42 U.S.C. LeMay v. Mays , 18 F.4th 283 (8th Cir.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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Louisville Courier-Journal mobile newsroom initiative and Salt Lake Tribune Innovations Lab

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

As part of this program, they're spending three weeks basing their "mobile newsroom" in a library in the Okolona district in the outlying county section of Louisville-Jefferson County (the city and county merged in 2003).

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Write Your Next Grant Proposal with OneNote

Peak Proposals

OneNote has been around since 2003. Writing a grant proposal has several stages.

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Weird intra-governmental spat in DC over the Washington Nationals stadium

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Events DC is a DC government instrumentality. -- board of directors -- staff Technically it's independent of the city government, but its top officer and board members are appointed by the Mayor and City Council.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

When it came, in 2009, it was less deadly than expected, but that does not negate the possibility of a highly contagious disease with a case fatality rate equivalent to that of SARS in 2003, namely 10%.

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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The 1970s were a period in which Kuhn's ideas were vigorously debated by people who were much more knowledgeable in the philosophy of science than I will ever be (Meiland 1974, Nickles 2003, Scheffler 1972).

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A tale of three supermarket companies and innovation: Kroger; Safeway; Albertsons

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And earlier than some of their competitors, they began opening new stores in center cities, starting with Portland in 2003.

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Prince George's County Film Festival: developing an ecosystem supporting digital media production

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Compared to Sundance, Cannes, or the Toronto International Film Festival among others, hearing that Prince George's County, Maryland has launched an annual film festival might sound like a joke (" With film festival, Prince George’s makes a bid for the silver screen ," Washington Post ).

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23 March 2017 | Making a Difference in the Real World through Public Affairs Research, By Stephanie Moulton

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

After the discussion, I went back to my office and brushed off Heather Hill’s 2003 JPART article on implementation resources, “ Understanding Implementation: Street?Level In light of the recent election in the U.S. and reliance on “alternative facts”, it is easy to feel disheartened about our role as researchers– particularly researchers who care about issues that are often central to public debates.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Washington Post , July 13, 2003. It's tradition for WMATA to hand out pennants to early riders on the day stations/lines open. Advance coverage (" Silver Line extension to Dulles Airport opens at tough time ,"WJLA-TV; " Silver Line’s second phase was to be different.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Abstract. As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

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