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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I think I stubbornly finished every book I started in 2023 although some of them maybe I shouldn’t have. My plan was to read LESS this year than last year and I did a good job. One hundred and fourteen books. I was busier, happier. I did lower my “books by men” percentage an amount that felt good. average read per month: 9.5

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Department of Health and Human Services’ 2023 federal poverty guidelines are available on this website. 328, 342 (2007); see also Saine v. 122, 137–38 (2015) (internal citations, quotation marks, and punctuation omitted). See Blinson v. State , 186 N.C. State , 210 N.C. 594, 607 (2011). The North Carolina Constitution (Art.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Basically, I'm interested in continuous process improvement and iterative learning (" Incrementalism as a concept of iterative improvement in government project development no longer a legitimate public administration theory ," 2023) applied to government and social program improvement.

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