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Fleet and Freight Cyber Considerations for Protecting America’s Roads

State Tech Magazine

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there were 42,915 motor vehicle–related fatalities in 2021, the largest number since 2005.

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America’s productivity engine is sputtering. Fixing it is a $10 trillion opportunity

McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

Since 2005, productivity growth has been lackluster, averaging 1.4% a year, compared to the post-World War II average of 2.2%. That is a problem. Increasing productivity–economic output per unit of input–maintains U.S. competitiveness and improves our quality of life. It is also essential to meet challenges like inflation, debt loads, entitlements, and the energy transition, write Asutosh Padhi and Olivia White in Fortune. MGI in the News

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State Park Leadership School

Park Leaders

Started by the National Association of Park Directors in 2005, Phil unpacks his role with the school in finding instructors, inspiring attendance, and delivering content.

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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here was the twitter thread of what I read last year. I’ll be posting on Mastodon this year instead.Find me there at [link].

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Governor Newsom Appoints Deputy State CIO and CDT Chief Deputy Director

California Department of Technology

Rising through the ranks, he supervised the IT Business and Support Services Unit at the Department of Pesticide Regulation before becoming a System Test Analyst at the INC Project at the California Franchise Tax Board in 2005. December 1, 2022 – Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Jared Johnson as Deputy State CIO and Chief Deputy Director of CDT. In his new role, Johnson will help guide and optimize CDT programs and services.

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2021 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here was the twitter thread of what I read last year but I should note, it has two 46es on it. I read about the same this year.

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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

This headline from last week would naturally grab the attention of any CED professional: “Affordable mobile homes are disappearing in Asheville; code change could bring some back.” Housing is a basic issue for anyone interested in CED.

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Pam Bridgeforth of Camden Repertory Theatre talks about building community

Iron Sharpens Iron

Shelton, a Camden, NJ native, in 2005 and initiated their inaugural season in August 2006. Shelton, a Camden, NJ native, in 2005 and initiated their inaugural season in August 2006. Pam Bridgeforth is Managing Director of Camden Repertory Theatre and former Director of Programs for the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations. In this mini episode, Pam talks with Leon and De'Wayne about building community and poetry.

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

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2005); Altman v. 2005); Warboys v. 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.

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Market, Message, and Medium: A Library Marketer Shares How She Tackles Promotions in a Time Crunch

Super Library Marketing

Suzanne Macaulay began her career as a Children’s Librarian at Henry Waldinger Memorial Library in Valley Stream, New York in 2005. Photo courtesy Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.

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Equitable Development Conference Special Episode!

Iron Sharpens Iron

Cass co-founded the Mill Creek Community Partnership (MCCP) in 2004 and serves as its president along with having established the Fine Arts Through Our Eyes Community Arts Initiative in 2005. Cass co-founded the Mill Creek Community Partnership (MCCP) in 2004 and serves as its president along with having established the Fine Arts Through Our Eyes Community Arts Initiative in 2005.

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Equitable Development Conference Special Episode!

Iron Sharpens Iron

Cass co-founded the Mill Creek Community Partnership (MCCP) in 2004 and serves as its president along with having established the Fine Arts Through Our Eyes Community Arts Initiative in 2005. Cass co-founded the Mill Creek Community Partnership (MCCP) in 2004 and serves as its president along with having established the Fine Arts Through Our Eyes Community Arts Initiative in 2005.

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Pathology digitization and the fight against cancer

Google Public Sector

In 2005, AFIP’s biorepository was transferred to the newly created Joint Pathology Center (JPC). Everyone who has experienced a loved one’s cancer diagnosis knows how important it is to help patients get the best treatment, faster.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. US Homeland Security Council 2005. WHO 2005.

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Public sector customer service and the adoption of cloud technology

Open Access Government - Technology News

When I think about how things have changed, I have to cast my mind back to 2005 when as a Civil Servant, I co-authored ‘Better Practice Guide- lines for Government Contact Centres.

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Interesting study on litter focuses on the brand of the trash

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And I wrote more pieces over the years. -- " Every litter bit hurts ," 2005 -- " Litter revisited ," 2006 Photo by Inked78.

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To and from origin stations can be difficult: More on the Silver Line and intra-neighborhood transit (tertiary network)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The transit network concept I worked out is based on how Arlington County, Virginia, in their 2005 Trasnportation Plan, defined a Primary and a Secondary Transit Network.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The same shortcomings were present in the 2005 London bombings, as were others (for example, the way in which 'major incident' as declared).

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Madison Wisconsin should be rethinking its pedestrian "district"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I wrote about Boulder's in 2005, " Now I know why Boulder's Pearl Street Mall is the exception that proves the rule about the failures of pedestrian malls."

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

2005). Caffrey 2005. Taxonomy is the process of classifying things or concepts and is usually backed by principles. The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013).

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Denver and Rio Grande Rail Trail in Davis County, Utah: a great foundation, full of (missed) opportunity

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's an old rail corridor that was acquired by the Utah Transit Authority (" From rails to trails ," Deseret News , 2005) and is a joint project with the communities it passes through. I rode this trail the other day. As a trail it's nice, although it could use more trees.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In college in the early 1980s, the University of Michigan repositioned its focus on fundraising (what universities call "development") in part by hiring a top development official from Stanford, creating a new campaign, etc.--the the University has successful raised billions since.

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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)

Bush, when the administration and the Federal Reserve proposed to limit the size of the investment portfolios of the two companies in 2005.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This should have been done as part of BRAC planning, something I first suggested in 2005.) It's tradition for WMATA to hand out pennants to early riders on the day stations/lines open.

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Covid-19: An Address

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The coup de grâce was the response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Once upon a time in Tuscany, when my son was very young, I lamented to a friend that all he seemed to have learned at school was how to swear and blaspheme.

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

2005). Regarding the topic of followership and technology, particularly in the realm of social media there seems to be a gap in the literature that should be resolved as it pertains to participation, technology, followership and public administration.

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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

Rybak was elected Mayor of Minneapolis in 2001 and was re-elected again in 2005 to serve another term. He was also reelected in 2005 and again in 2009. It doesn’t matter if your city is populated into the millions or encompasses only a few hundred people.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There is an article at Building Salt Lake, " Why isn’t Utah Transit Authority supporting the Rio Grande Plan? ," opining about why the Utah Transit Authority isn't all in on the concept of reviving Rio Grande Station as the "central station" for Downtown railroad and transit service.

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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

At the same time, traditional political movements—those linked to candidates or issue campaigns—have responded to opportunities presented by the new media environment by becoming hybrid organizations, centrally managed but enabling a relatively entrepreneurial base (Bimber, Flannagan, & Stohl, 2005). Abstract.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. Bertrand Russell once observed, "Most people would die sooner than think--in fact they do so."

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