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Remote workers: When do they count for local economic development incentives?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

And for local governments engaged in business location incentive negotiations with private employers, the prospect of remote or hybrid workers must now be explicitly addressed. Local government elected officials and all attorneys have sworn an oath to uphold the state constitution, which is the supreme law of the land.

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This item is implicit in the original list of six in that you need an implementation organization separate from government to keep the focus, especially because government interest waxes and wanes depending on who gets elected and their desire to work on their priorities, not the long term priorities developed by previous administrations.

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Summit County (Utah) Community Planning Lab as an example of civic engagement and best practice technical assistance

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Unlike DC's "constituency service" programs by Councilmembers and the Mayor's Office, these initiatives are designed to support DIY self-help efforts driven independently of elected officials. The bodies get a bit of money for administration and community grants, and weigh in/are consulted on matters before DC government bodies.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

That’s because both are government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). The GSE Background Over a century ago, Congress began creating public-private hybrid corporations known as government-sponsored enterprises. government, allowing them to borrow at near-Treasury rates, lower than any regular private sector company or bank could.

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28 September 2017 | Rebuilding after the storms: The constitutional foundation, By Robert K. Christensen*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

The recent natural disasters centered in Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico have prompted many to look at government with fresh eyes. Earlier calls to “drain the swamp” seemed distant if not incongruous to presidential tweets that waxed confident, proud and even deferential to government and government officials.