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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems.

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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. In 2009, I was appointed to serve on the Community Advisory Committee, representing the Eastern Market Preservation and Development Corporation. We did this in 2008 or 2009.

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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. Michael Patrick McGinn was elected the 52nd mayor of Seattle in November of 2009. Steve Pinkerton has been the city manager of Manteca since 2008. Mayor Slay.

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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)

In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. This all ended in 2008, when even the most ardent GSE defenders in Congress went quiet as the two companies collapsed into conservatorship.

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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

In order for a social movement driven by social media to live, or to be an event, the activism must be displayed not only through social media but also have a presence in the world on public display in plain view. It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009).