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Former White House officials highlight the value of early planning for presidential transitions

Partnership for Public Service

The book includes 30 declassified transition memos about Bush administration policies from 2008 and 2009 and made public for the first time. New leaders do not necessarily know much about the basics of governing, Liddell argues, something recent administrations have often discovered only after they take office.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From " Design Thinking ," American Libraries, 2008 I used action planning concepts when I did a pedestrian and bicycle plan for Baltimore County (" Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the "action planning" method ," 2010).

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From LAX to ONT: The Transfer of Ontario International Airport and its Economic Implications

The Lowe Down

In retort, Los Angeles stated that the significant loss in business resulted from the 2008 recession rather than administrative negligence. Naturally, during the recession, fewer people were traveling to save money, so ONT experienced a 2.31% monthly decline from December 2007 to June 2009.

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The Impact of GDP shocks on Fertility Rates

The Lowe Down

In the US, fertility rates have been steadily declining since the 2008 Financial Crisis, where “births have sunk below replacement level” (Miller). births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44; in 2012, the rate was 63.0 Overall, 22% of the selected shocks are from 2009. births per 1,000 women.

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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I hadn't thought about it, but maybe SLC is ripe for the double deck bus approach (" Making bus service sexy and more equitable ," 2012) for rebranding and repositioning of bus service as sexy, even though the ridership numbers wouldn't justify it otherwise. Besides the general TDM approach, utilize other methods to promote transit.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

Waldo , concerned himself with the later, more expansive conception of the dichotomy, which included the process of policy making ( Rosenbloom, 2008 ). In 2012, Patrick Overeem wrote a forensic investigation [a la CSI-style] book hinting to a comeback in the making, particularly in the United States. Overeem, Patrick (2012).

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In the years immediately following conservatorship (which began in September 2008), the FHFA increasingly took over setting the average G-fee. This all ended in 2008, when even the most ardent GSE defenders in Congress went quiet as the two companies collapsed into conservatorship. public comment periods) were bypassed.

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