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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. There, she managed and directed day-to-day operations and formulated and implemented policies to achieve the department’s mission.

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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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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 "). Once the building is gone, it’s eventually forgotten along with the stories.”.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Philadelphia 76ers ," 2023 ). Cities cost money to operate. Principles that drive my approach to urban revitalization (that the average citizen never thinks about). I think the alternatives proposed by the community are ridiculous. Community building versus revitalization.

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

1 My view is that the current way they operate – which varies considerably between the four agencies – would be significantly improved if they all applied three key principles: Do risk-adjusting on a practical and easily implementable basis, very much enabled by today’s information processing capabilities.

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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. 153A-256 authorizes counties to establish, erect, acquire, lease, equip, support, operate, and maintain a county home for “aged and infirm persons.” See Blinson v. State , 186 N.C.