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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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Meet the top 6 finalists for the 2023 Service to America Medals® People’s Choice Award

Partnership for Public Service

While all our Sammies finalists represent the very best in government, this award grants special recognition to the finalist who receives the most votes from the general public.  We recently announced the top six finalists still in the running to receive this year’s Service to America Medals® People’s Choice Award.

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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. Getty Images photo.

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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

2003 ( Back to Prosperity: A Competitive Agenda for Renewing Pennsylvania ), and it mentioning how so many of the micro jurisdictions across the state including in Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is, lacked the financial capacity to serve their residents. They don't work well in changed circumstances.

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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. When the government owns the facility, TDM agreements need to be part of the lease with the tenant--the sports team.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: On the surface, a budget-proposing government suit doesn’t exactly scream “rock ’n’ roll.” But during his decade-plus as King County executive, lifelong West Seattleite Dow Constantine has been the local music and arts community’s biggest champion in local government.

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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

In 2003—with the expert guidance of another future Community Progress co-founder, Frank S. The largest portion of funding land banks across the country receive comes from their local governments, and that amount does not cover the scope of the problem land banks are expected to address.