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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many municipal governments, once allies, have adopted aggressive not-in-my-backyard stances toward intercity buses, fueled by the perception that bus stations may be unsafe places that generate criminal activity. The federal government has made giving intercity bus lines “reasonable access” to these facilities a funding requirement.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

federal, state, and local governments, and education institutions. Governor Steve Bullock An accomplished lawyer, Steve Bullock served the State of Montana as Attorney General from 2009 to 2013, and as Governor from 2013 to 2021. Since then, Google Public Sector has furthered its work to accelerate the digital transformation of U.S.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The question of how best to fund Metro is an important one that requires thought leadership and extensive community input. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?” My point is you ask for money when you are wildly successful and everyone is looking to join the bandwagon, not when you are failing, in crisis, and you have few friends.

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Celebrating 20 Years of Land Banks in Michigan

Center for Community Progress

Between 2009-18, the Calhoun and Kalamazoo County land banks created at least 286 full time jobs in construction, lawn care, and property maintenance. Of the more than 15,000 homes sold by the Detroit Land Bank since 2014, about 70% were bought by Detroit residents. and the mortgage rate increased 5.6%

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Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement Could Be the Missing Piece in Fighting Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

These properties, as Community Progress Senior Fellow Alan Mallach recently discussed on NPR’s 1A , actively harm neighbors and neighborhoods by threatening public health and safety, keeping residents from building wealth, and destabilizing local government finances.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Since the start of the crisis, I have constantly affirmed that the key to understanding the effects of this pandemic is the UK Government's failure to give adequate weight to emergency planning and management (Alexander 2020a, 2020b). The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It is considered one of America’s government- sponsored enterprises (GSEs), i.e., public-private hybrid corporations created by Congress and authorized to engage only in a narrowly-tailored set of activities. government and its exemption from income taxes at the federal, state, and local levels. 17 Denial of the subsidy.

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