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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 have other pieces about options for funding. -- " Metrolinx Toronto: 25 potential tools to fund transit-transportation infrastructure ," 2013 suggests a more structured process for identifying funding than an interview published in the Post. Maybe this is no longer necessary. Funding options. The best would be a transit withholding tax.

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

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Image: Faggard, 2013. 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. Mergel, Ines and Greeves, Bill (2013). These complex networks are optimal when fully connected and ?at Faggard, D.

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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

I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. This was proposed a number of years ago for EM, first in the Barry Administration and then around 2012-2013, but the vendors fought it, with the support of now Mayor Muriel Bowser. They still haven't. I mentioned it over time. We did this in 2008 or 2009.

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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.

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Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). These pages, open to anyone with a Facebook account, include ‘friends’ not only from one’s home country or state, but from throughout the world.