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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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Department stores are an "urban technology" built for walking not driving

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " Responding to retail decay in Friendship Heights (DC/Montgomery County, Maryland) ," 2023 -- " Friendship Heights and the production of retail decay ," 2020 -- " Urban decay and sprawl: one community's gain at the expense of another's ," 2011 -- " A brief lesson in "incentivizing" supermarkets and department stores ," 2007 -- " Why it's okay (..)

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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I have written a lot about ways to accelerate improvement "East of the River": -- " Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC ," 2024 -- " Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus? ," 2023 -- " DC's 11th Street (..)

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Governor Appoints CDT Deputy Director of Communications & Stakeholder Relations

California Department of Technology

September 27, 2023 – Monica Hernández has been appointed CDT’s new Deputy Director of Communications and Stakeholder Relations at the California. Her first day at CDT will be October 6. Since 2021, Monica has served as Deputy Director of Communications at the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).

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Meet the featured customer speakers for the Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Talk at re:Invent 2023

AWS Public Sector Blog

Johnson joined Covered California after serving as the chief deputy director at the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), California’s Medicaid agency, from 2007 to 2017. Karen Johnson provides executive leadership for Administrative Services, Financial Management, and Information Technology at Covered California.

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Building community, connection and commitment for African American federal executives

Partnership for Public Service

While people of color composed nearly one-quarter of the SES as of 2022—a roughly 9% jump from 2007—African Americans made up just over 12% of SES members as of March 2023. Note: According to research from the Partnership for Public Service, the federal workforce is as racially diverse as the U.S.

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Really great article on historic preservation (North Carolina)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Raleigh News & Observer named Myrick Howard, president of Preservation North Carolina for 45 years until he retired this year, the 2023 Tar Heel of the year (" He’s rescued 900 buildings to save NC history. Meet the N&O’s Tar Heel of the Year "). As long as the building remains, you can continue to tell the stories,” Howard says.

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