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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. The team cut the online prices $5.00

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Gaps in Parks Master Planning: Part Five | Planning for Public Art as an element of facilities

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Gates, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Central Park, New York City, 2005 Separately, murals as an element of public art are often used by communities as a way to call attention to a district and move revitalization objectives forward (" 10 new murals added in South Salt Lake for 6th annual Mural Fest ," ABC4).

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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. 11] The history makes clear that the various GSEs often engage in lobbying and advocacy for favorable changes to legislation and regulation, potentially biasing the outcome. [12] This included employing ex-government officials from both parties to aid their cause.

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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

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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. How to measure and benchmark traffic deaths? The issues are unchanging. Government has a bias for inaction.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The FHFA, meanwhile, has stated that there is no intention to do such redistribution and that the changes resulted instead from updating the GSE risk adjustments, mostly set about a decade ago, to be consistent with the rule it adopted in 2020 for minimum required capital. This claim is simply untrue.