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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. Plastic was the most common material recorded, accounting for 63.1% One of my earliest blog entries was on litter, as a result of those efforts. 700 block of H Street NE. of all items.

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Eastern Market DC's 150th anniversary last weekend | And my never realized master plan for the market

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time. We did this in 2008 or 2009. But I had the basic ideas down.

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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. She is the Hayward, California city manager and has worked in the office since 2006. The local government here strives to be accountable and accessible. Mayor Slay.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

As an example of their lobbying power, in 2004 and 2005 the George W. 20] The Federal Reserve Bank’s combined balance sheet in 2006 was just $.81 25] He resigned in 2004 due to accounting irregularities. [26] This included employing ex-government officials from both parties to aid their cause. 81 trillion.

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Closing Cost Reform: Long Overdue and Worth the Fight (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In 2007, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a non-partisan research arm of Congress, studied title insurance. As the government has successfully implemented low downpayment mortgage products, closing costs now account for roughly half of all the cash needed upfront by many first-time homebuyers to purchase a home.

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

at with opportunity for direct “horizontal communication” between network peers (Schmidtchen, 2006) and as I would also point out, leaders inspire social action or other participatory behavior. Retrieved from h ttp://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/documented_briefings/2005/RAND_DB311.pdf. Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt, eds.,

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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I get a kick out of this because this has been raised on and off for 20 years, such as in these reports from 2004-2006. -- Washington Metro: Deficits by Design , Brookings, 2004 -- Keeping Metro On Track: The Federal Government's Role in Balacing Investment With Accountability at Washington's Transit Agency , Brookings, 2005 -- " Mass Transit: Issues (..)

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