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Public restrooms: single versus multiple-occupant

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But other cities out West too, bigger like Boise, and smaller like Ennis, Montana or at trailheads in the Wasatch Front like Bell Canyon (" New trailhead expected to help grow one of Salt Lake County's more popular trails ," KSL) which has a great facility and definitely no concerns about the homeless because it is so remote.

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Strategies for Landing Your Dream Job in Parks & Recreation

Let's Talk Parks

The housing market crisis had just occurred in 2007, and I graduated in 2009. Marissa: Yes, definitely. They’ve had several interviews, and they just can’t land that job. Get Your Foot in the Door So it got me to thinking about my own experience when I graduated College. I had a hard time finding a job out of College.

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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

2007) In Athena’s Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age, Santa Monica: RAND. Even more impressive this concept is performed remotely and in conjunction with multiple layers of leader-follower interactions in order to at attain swarm status. References. Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt, eds., Arquilla, John and Ronfeldt, David.

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28 September 2017 | Rebuilding after the storms: The constitutional foundation, By Robert K. Christensen*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Some of these include: reducing citizen estrangement by practicing democratic administration over bureaucratic administration (Durant and Ali 2013); [v] fostering citizen engagement (King and Stivers 1998); facilitating deliberative democracy (Nabatchi 2010); [vi] and creating communities of participation and inclusion (Feldman and Khademian 2007).

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Social Media Definitions. By being able to connect with each other and share the stories and accounts, citizen journalists are learning that “the ‘sphere of legitimate debate” as defined by journalists doesn’t match up with their own definition” (Rosen, 2009). Boykoff, J. New Political Science, 28 (2), 201 –228.

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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)

It is important to clearly state that the analysis in this article is based on the economic reality that if a loan does not have an interest rate that is appropriately risk-adjusted for its creditworthiness, then by definition there will be cross-subsidies in operation, even if that is not overtly stated.