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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

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“I used to say that people went to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles office with a box lunch and a copy of ‘War and Peace’ and hoped not to finish both of them before somebody noticed they were there,” Daniels said in a 2015 interview with Reason magazine. percent” in 2008, according to a study by the Sagamore Institute.

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Opposition to affordable housing in Chevy Chase, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Baldwin Apartments on H Street NE; 37 apartments, 100% affordable, over ground floor retail and building amenities.

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How Philadelphia became a leader in the use of data and evidence: An interview with Maia Jachimowicz, V.P. for Evidence-Based Policy, Results for America, and former policy director to Mayor Michael Nutter – Episode #109

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

Michael Nutter served as Mayor of Philadelphia from 2008 to 2016. In 2014, Governing Magazine named the Mayor one of the Public Officials of the Year, noting, “Philadelphia isn’t an easy place to govern. She served as Deputy Director for Policy and, starting in 2013, as Policy Director for the Mayor until 2016.

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A tale of three supermarket companies and innovation: Kroger; Safeway; Albertsons

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But while some of their divisions have augmented stores with specialty departments, like "Fresh Fare" in Texas slowly being ported to other markets but seemingly only for banners named Kroger (" Kroger opens another Fresh Fare store in Ohio ," Drug Store News , 2008), or the store by their headquarters in Cincinnati (" Inside Kroger’s New Downtown (..)

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Programming for Success in Parks and Recreation

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So I started back in 2008 working part time as an activity leader in one of our after school programs. The NRPA magazine or a local state GRPA magazine has tons of different trends going on. Chris: Yeah. And I had some trouble finding a part time job. So this one was open and I applied and got it. And I tell people all the time.

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Relatedly, in 2008, Saffron wrote that the city's newest hospital building was designed for the suburbs, not the city (" Penn got a trophy, not a triumph, in hospital design "). Inga Saffron of the Philadelphia Inquirer makes the point that because hospital planning is in large part focused on accommodating cars in parking, etc.,

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

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The Turkish bus firm Karsan produces a 16 passenger electric bus which would also work but is bigger (" What Kind of Big Impact Will a New Minibus Have on North America’s Small Bus Market? ," Mass Transit Magazine ). The idea is that intra-district transportation, especially by SFH residents, could be shifted to shuttles rather than by car.