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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. My plan was to read LESS this year than last year and I did a good job. One hundred and fourteen books. I was busier, happier. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. average read per month: 9.5

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2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts, Billboard Magazine

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

2023 Year-End Boxscore Charts , Billboard Magazine Top 40 Tours Top 30 Boxscores Top 10 Stadiums Top 25 Venues (cap 15,001 or more) Top 10 Venues (cap 10,001 to 15,000) Top 10 Venues (cap 5,001 to 10,000) Top 10 Venues (cap 5,000 or less) Top 10 Promoters Top Tours by Genre; For years, I'd argued with Alex B. 1 venue in the world."

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

When Mitch Daniels took office as Indiana’s Governor in 2005, one of the top items on his agenda was reforming the Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV). The number jumped in 2020 and 2021 (the most recent year for which stats are available), first because of COVID restrictions and then staffing shortages.

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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. 4] See Bloomberg’s article from Dec 20, 2023, “A $1.3 Another was their lobbying efforts, as the two GSEs became among the most powerful lobbying interests in Washington, D.C. A few of the recommendations require legislation by Congress. [4]

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I didn't know Cumberland Maryland "had" a pedestrian mall

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Photo: Steve Bittner/Times-News.com Construction continues on Baltimore Street on Thursday, July 13, 2023. The DMV region has two pedestrian malls that I knew about, in Charlottesville and Winchester Virginia. Both tend to peter out at the ends. (As Flickr photo by Jacqui Trump. Rendering of the newly constructed pedestrian mall

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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)

4 That average will change slightly each year to reflect the normal annual variation in the mix of products and borrower characteristics – for example, it was up by two basis points (bp) in 2021 over 2020, but down by the same amount from the prior year. percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49 percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.). And they never functioned the way I suggested (e.g., Vision Zero. The issues are unchanging.