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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

3 The release of the FHFA report has also sparked a flurry of articles, op-eds, and think tank reports either supporting or countering some or all the recommendations. This two-part article argues that the root cause of their need for reform is a fundamental flaw in Congress’ design of GSEs. mortgage originations.

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Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Detroit News has an article, " 2 Detroit museums seek same financial lifeline DIA, zoo got ," about how two cultural institutions based in Detroit, but serving the metropolitan area, The Charles H. From the article: Democrat Rep. mill tax for the Detroit Zoo they approved in 2008.

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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). From the article: However, design thinking has not lived up to such promises.

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More remonstration about the molasses of change: Transit planning, Baltimore County, Maryland and Towson

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Now everything I wrote was rejected because it was at the peak of the post-2008 recession, and the planners were ordered to omit "any recommendations that cost money." From the article: State transportation officials are asking for public input on seven proposed transit routes that would connect Towson to downtown Baltimore.

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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

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief.