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A History of Ohio Land Banking 2009–2021: From Legislation to Operation

Center for Community Progress

The disproportionate impact in Ohio paved the way for Ohio’s General Assembly to pass a comprehensive county land bank statute in 2009. Ohio’s Traditional Land Bank Law. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation. This number rose to 8,700 in 2003, 9,700 in 2004, 13,943 in 2006, and 14,946 in 2007.

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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004).

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Change takes forever: plastic bag bans, liquor stores and crime

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC did that in 2009. There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City." I noticed an article that Baltimore County, Maryland is on the verge of passing a plastic bag ban. increase in violent crimes.

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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

Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). In the past there was nowhere for this kind of sentiment to go.