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Change takes forever: plastic bag bans, liquor stores and crime

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC did that in 2009. Chicago) ," 2012 Journal article -- " Regulating Availability: How Access to Alcohol Affects Drinking and Problems in Youth and Adults ," Alcohol Research and Health (2011). I noticed an article that Baltimore County, Maryland is on the verge of passing a plastic bag ban. increase in violent crimes.

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Regional and multi-state inter city bus transportation. Thanksgiving is a time of big travel.

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Note in my typology on the transit network at multiple scales (" Reprint (with editing): The Meta-Regional Transit Network ," 2009), a commenter had to point out to me that I failed to include buses. . = One overlooked segment in regional transportation planning is inter-city bus service/travel.

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October 2016 | Studying Networks Over Time, By H. Brinton Milward

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

This blog post is an attempt to begin a dialogue among public management researchers about how we might begin to design research that would capture the life-cycle of a network using methods that allow the researcher to capture exit and entry of organizations, new governance schemes, and shifts in the task or purpose of the network over time.

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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

Use of Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, blogs and photo sharing sites illustrate the flexibility of ICT platforms in supporting collective action and social movements while the mediums themselves are both inexpensive to operate and instantaneous; multiple messages can be conveyed clearly and consistently over the course of movement evolution.

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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.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

Public Policy Blog

This concept while widely dismissed by today’s scholars of public administration (Campbell and Peters, 1998; Levy, 2009) as if a true unadulterated distinction could honestly, actually, occur is commonly a constant and growing public debate particularly in developing countries. Public Administration Review,72 (4), 526-535. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6210.2011.02551.x.

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

First enhanced State of the Union live stream : President Obama, 2011. ” Take a look at previous #SOTU (2009 – present) observations from Pew Center for Research. Bush administration in 2002. First high definition television broadcast of the address also took place under George W. Bush in 2004. Why or why not?