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Three ideas about presentation of African American History in the context of Black History Month | reprint with an addition about the US Civil Rights Trail (versus the Dixieland Trail)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I wrote about this in more depth in " 6Ps and cultural planning and the failure to create a network of African American historic sites across the DMV " (2016) in response to articles spurred by the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The Toronto Star even publishes an event guide.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) I suggest the following five:- (a) Natural disasters, caused by extreme natural events. and this might give us some basis for distinguishing phenomena by the magnitude of their impacts. Field 2018).

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Archangel: The future of telecare service providers is now

Open Access Government - Technology News

Some suppliers are still asking for time because they need to upgrade their systems, despite having known about the need for change since 2016, and the Cloud being around since 2010. The sooner we begin the investment/implementation of these strategies, the better it will be for all” says Tom.

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Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In 2016, the Expanded Legal Services (ELS) pilot program launched with the aim of providing legal representation for tenants living within 10 ZIP Codes with household incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty line. Data from the 2010-2014 American Community Survey also provided insight into resident demographics and housing conditions.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

“I saw first-hand how communities are impacted by these types of events while living in Haiti in 2010,” shared Andrés Meira, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Grillo. Open data helps recovery in the aftermath of devastating weather events. At the time, some 300,000 people were injured , and 1.5

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The GSE Conservatorships: Fifteen Years Old, With No End in Sight

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

To commemorate this anniversary, I have compiled a ten-point Q&A to explain some of the history and key events of the two conservatorships, which reasonably lead to the conclusion that they won’t likely end anytime soon. Q1: What problem was the government trying to solve when it placed the two GSEs into conservatorship? .”

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ACTION, DATA, EVOLVE! 3 Ground Breaking Moments from the CPBB (Un)Conference

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

That phrase, “ forward-looking,” was the best compliment we could have been paid, and it’s on that theme that I wanted to (not so ironically) look back at three pivotal events that took place at the Conference, and discuss their implications for the PBB movement: 1. Entering 2016, over 100 communities had implemented PBB.