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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Louis regional transit planning process as a model for what needs to be done in the DC Metropolitan region " (2009) DC area transit planning and operations is an extreme example of gaps. The concept of a multi-regional and multi-state transit network is outlined in " The meta-regional transit network " (2009). And financing.

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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. 2011; Aday, et al., Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief.

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Technical Leadership Needs Advance The Politics-Administration Dichotomy

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He stated “nothing is more central in thinking about public administration than the nature and interrelations of politics and administration” (Waldo, 1987, p. Public Administration Review,72 (4), 526-535. Public Administration Review, 69 (1), 145-147. Politics and public administration: What is the appropriate relationship?

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

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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?

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

taxpaying public. 12 This means that the taxpayers are now officially (again, using FHFA calculations) earning a sub-standard return on their investment, providing what amounts to a large, hidden, and never-congressionally-approved economic subsidy to the GSEs, 13 which is not good public policy. 22] See the G-fee Report, pp.

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