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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC did that in 2009. 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. increase in violent crimes.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many years ago Leimert Park in Los Angeles was featured in the Washington Post as a black-business district (" Los Angeles's Black Pride: Taking In the Retro Vibe of Leimert Park ," places , 2006). I visited it back then and wasn't impressed. s Black arts scene ," Post ).

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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

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009).