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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

First, in the early years of the blog I wrote a lot of pieces about transit marketing and doing a better job of it. Second, during the 2008 crash, I got an email from an activist in response to all the budget and service cuts faced by transit systems. And absolutely that it is a key issue.

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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

To see for yourself, check out the below top 50 city government blogs. Top City Mayor Blogs. These mayors run larger cities and blog all about it. Stop here for the blog of Antonio R. The blog is used as a way for the mayor to check in on issues such as city clean up and city employment. The Mayor Blog.

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Predicting diabetic patient readmission using multi-model training on Amazon SageMaker Pipelines

AWS Public Sector Blog

Approximately 33% of all health care spending in 2009 went to hospital care. This solution uses the UCI Diabetes 130-US hospitals for years 1999-2008 dataset , from which we’ll extrapolate data insights with machine learning. Upload the UCI Diabetes 130-US hospitals for years 1999-2008 dataset to the Amazon S3 bucket.

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The 50 Best City Manager Blogs, Sites, and More

Masters in Public Administration

To help learn more about what a city manager does, we have gathered the 50 best city manager blogs, sites, and more. Best West City Manager Blogs. Rick Cole : This blog is a civic forum for real time news and dialogue regarding the city of Ventura, California. Check out her blog to get the latest on the happenings at City Hall.

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Meet Our Featured Contributor Cohort

GovLoop

Our 32 nd Featured Contributor cohort recently kicked off, and there is already no shortage of informative and educational blogs to learn from. This cohort is full of talented writers with years of government and industry experience that have shaped their own careers, and their sound advice could positively affect yours as well.

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21 August 2017 | Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S. Bureaucracy, By Christine Palus & Susan Webb Yackee*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

In this blog post, we will highlight the article’s main conclusions, as well as our indebtedness to a wonderful mentor and scholar who enabled this project. He passed away in 2009; yet, his legacy in the field of Public Administration continues to live on. Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The journal article " Making Cycling Irresistible ," inspired my own blog entry in 2008, " Ideas for Making Cycling Irresistible in DC." In 2009, I was able to spend half a day at Stoneleigh Elementary School in Baltimore County Maryland on International Walk to School Day. There aren't many free air pumps or bike stands.