Policy Chats

JUNE 4, 2021

Finlayson joined OGE in 2006, initially serving in roles related to OGE’s legislative affairs and budget programs. Finlayson was honored to be selected as a Brookings LEGIS Fellow, through which she served with the Oversight of Government Management Subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

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Andy Whitford

MARCH 24, 2021

Written with a former undergraduate student during my time at Kansas, “ Making Environmental Self-Regulation Mandatory ” appeared in the journal Global Environmental Politics in 2006.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JULY 10, 2023

But DC Government shows a lot that it's management capacity is weak. Obviously, DC itself has successful examples of doing this, although more with replacing the civic asset rather than including it going forward.

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

Before Ohio’s new county land banks were conceived, the main goal from 2004 to 2006 was to respond to local leaders’ demand for speedier tax foreclosure of long tax-delinquent vacant and abandoned lands. In 2006, the Ohio General Assembly passed this legislation. Ohio Tax Foreclosure Reform: Precursor to Ohio’s County Land Banks.

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Barrett & Greene

JUNE 30, 2022

In researching the 26-year-old Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program recently, we had the chance to talk with Mary Beth Vogel-Ferguson, a University of Utah research professor who has spent the last 23 years in a state-funded project to interview TANF clients and share results with agency management and senior leadership. “My

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. It attributed the issue to management failure and said the vacancies have accelerated the agency’s steadily deteriorating financial condition.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014.

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Peak Proposals

JUNE 1, 2023

The result of this uncertainty is that the decision of how to manage references is not made until after the proposal is well underway, and the references are scattered across several locations. What Is a Reference Manager? A reference manager is a software program that allows you to organize and format your references.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

EMPDC was created by the Barry Administration to be a CDC and to take over management of the market, but vendors and other stakeholders fought the idea, and the market remained managed by the city--for a time by a putative nonprofit--with different spaces, like North Hall (arts) and Sunday under the shed run by different entities.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 21, 2022

And I wrote more pieces over the years. -- " Every litter bit hurts ," 2005 -- " Litter revisited ," 2006 Photo by Inked78. One of my earliest blog entries was on litter, as a result of those efforts. 700 block of H Street NE.

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Masters in Public Administration

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

A city manager is often charged with managing the city’s budget, various offices, and a ton of other responsibilities. To help learn more about what a city manager does, we have gathered the 50 best city manager blogs, sites, and more. Best West City Manager Blogs. Best East City Manager Blogs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Though I am privileged to be the general manager, it’s your Metro, so please let us know how we can serve you better. I am empowering all staff members to own our service outcomes and to proudly represent America’s transit system. As you travel the region this fall, I hope you will choose Metro.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2023

But I haven't seen a good transportation demand management study of hospital workers trip to work. (In For $10 a month, patients get a monthly check-up from a nurse or other health care provider, education on how to manage their disease, and help navigating the complex health system to find prescriptions that are affordable.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

In DC, for awhile I was a Main Street manager in the Brookland neighborhood, which is home to Catholic University, Trinity Washington University and near Howard University, and I touted the potential of student spending as an element of commercial district revitalization. But that's not a unique failing. DC has plenty of assets.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 11, 2024

My mobility shed/mobilityshed and transit shed entry dates to 2006, " Updating the mobilityshed / mobility shed concept." A variant is that starting in 2006 I also wrote that the area's railroad passenger services should integrate into what I later called RACER, Railroad Authority of the Chesapeake Region.

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Emergency Management Degree Guide

APRIL 26, 2013

The bunker was in operation for around 30 years, with a multitude of staff handling tasks like managing telephone and telegraph communications and alerts. And in 2006, Bunker-42 was bought privately and re-purposed as a Cold War museum, restaurant, karaoke bar, conference center and wedding venue.

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Masters in Public Administration

AUGUST 30, 2011

Top City Government Manager Blogs. City managers are often charged with the day to day tasks of running a city and can be read more about in the below blogs. Blog from the Office of the City Manager. This city manager serves the town of Lowell, Massachusetts. Ventura City Manager. City Manager Blog.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 19, 2024

Really, the revitalization management process is never ending. Adaptive management/Continuous process improvement/stasis versus dynamism as element eight. Around 2006 it "repaired" Thomas Circle, which decades before had been cut through with more road travel lanes. Again DC has a great example as c.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

One of the justifications to restrict sales in places like Seattle was the high cost of providing emergency services to regular users, and their service calls were usually associated with alcohol use.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

4 For those who have closely followed the housing finance industry for a long time, this should evoke memories of the efforts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) in the years before the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), and how their management teams also responded so aggressively to counter them. 24 Excessive executive compensation.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2. WMATA should upgrade its Metrorail station bus shelters (I know this happened at Springfield).

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Death and Taxes

JANUARY 28, 2021

In addition to his operational responsibilities, Joe managed COST’s advocacy program and regularly testified before state legislatures and other state and national policy-making bodies. Joe served COST as chief operating officer & senior director, policy.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2024

For years I've argued that DC should manage itself as a heritage area with or without designation. Many years ago Leimert Park in Los Angeles was featured in the Washington Post as a black-business district (" Los Angeles's Black Pride: Taking In the Retro Vibe of Leimert Park ," places , 2006).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 5, 2024

Programming tends to be provided in parks and public spaces that are managed by conservancies or business improvements districts--organizations that have separate funding sources, and with the luxury of only managing a few spaces, not many dozens. Mexico border between 1993 and 2006. Types of programs.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 4, 2024

Programming tends to be provided in parks and public spaces that are managed by conservancies or business improvements districts--organizations that have separate funding sources, and with the luxury of only managing a few spaces, not many dozens. Mexico border between 1993 and 2006. Types of programs.

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Public Policy Blog

JUNE 16, 2013

Paradoxically, technology modifies and enhances other types of distance as parents and managers alike bemoan their waning influence on followers who increasingly turn to smartphones and social media, rather than their immediate leaders for daily guidance (p. These complex networks are optimal when fully connected and ?at Schmidtchen, David.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 18, 2024

. -- " Yard sign, Person running for District Six Council in Salt Lake using traffic safety as a campaign issue ," 2023 Transportation management districts. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 19, 2023

DC doesn't have the budget to be able to take on the full responsibility of WMATA, but that would allow it to manage it in a way that benefits the city. Although federal agencies leaving the city for sites poorly connected by transit, and maybe sports teams too, doesn't help the transit financial model either.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Social media tends to be decentralized, nonmarket, peer-produced, nonproprietary, open-sourced, commons-based, and provide free or inexpensive access and distribution (Benkler, 2006). This incredible exponential growth of the movement was likely a consequence of the movement’s decentralization (Brafman & Beckstrom, 2006).

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