AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

From 2006–2010, UK Biobank recruited 500,000 UK citizens between the ages of 40 and 69 to supply biological samples (blood, urine, and saliva) and information about their lifestyle regularly on an ongoing basis. New findings continue to come thick and fast—there were more than 3,000 published reports in 2023.

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2006 2010 Public Sector Leadership 114

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 23, 2023

On February 28th, 2023, Mark Willis, the NYU Furman Center’s Senior Policy Fellow, testified at a City Council Oversight Hearing on Residential Conversions of Office Buildings. This post describes three resources to help inform the debate.

Housing 76

Housing 2006 Article Development 76

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

From another NYT piece, " What We Learned From Bogotá’s Buses ," about the article: That’s a lesson I took away from my reporting. Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes. TransMilenio bus routes. Photo by Julio Plaza for the New York Times.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation Elected Officials 2008 Implementation 52

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Restaurants are still closing in 2023. But hands down, the easiest bread to bake comes from the recipes by Jim Lahey of the Sullivan Street Bakery in New York City, first popularized by an article in the New York Times in 2006 --although it took me til 2020 to finally start baking it regularly.

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Magazine Books Campaign Grassroots 52

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 29, 2024

Part 1 of this article will address several questions to lay the groundwork for a broader discussion about closing and related transaction costs in Part 2. Insights from the NAR lawsuit and settlement In 2023, the NAR and certain large brokerages were sued in Missouri federal court via a private class-action lawsuit. Behind a paywall.)

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Housing Regulations 2007 Article 59

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.

Parks And Recreation 52

Parks And Recreation 2014 Education Development 52