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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

That question is one of policy, not law, and the School of Government is neutral on issues of policy. Instead, my goal is to discuss a related question of law: If the General Assembly chose to expand the circuit breaker, could it constitutionally do so in a way that allowed for variety in its application across the state?

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

During the period of the (post) 2008 recession, Walmart, recognizing that it achieved about as much growth as it could in the suburbs and exurbs, decided to focus on cities. DC, not being particularly sophisticated politically, was ripe for the picking, and local elected officials welcomed them with open arms.

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Federalism and the Detroit Bankruptcy Case

Public Policy Blog

Scott Bomboy of the Constitution Center mentions that “the concept of nullification–that states can overrule federal laws–predated the Civil War by decades, and the ultimate issue of nullification (secession) was settled in the 1860s. 1257 courtesy of Cornell Law Institute). If that law is federal, then the U.S. 482, 488 (1976).

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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). Social Media in the United States.