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25 Exciting Career Paths in Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

If looking for a degree in public administration , there can be more to it than just program rankings and salary questions. What to do after graduation can be as daunting a task as getting an education.

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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

It doesn’t matter if your city is populated into the millions or encompasses only a few hundred people. They all have city governments that can range from a department of thousands to a temporary meeting place with a part time staff.

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20 Specialty Search Engines and Web Databases for Public Administrators

Masters in Public Administration

Anyone working in or getting an education in public administration can have loads of research to do and little time. Even items such as the difference between public administration certificates , bachelor’s degrees , and doctorate degrees , can all take up valuable time.

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30 Helpful Sites to find Public Administration Internships

Masters in Public Administration

When you are looking to advance your career, an internship can help. One of the problems with being fresh out of school is that you don’t have any practical real world experience that employers can use to gauge your ability to fit in at work, or to competently handle your job.

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10 Interesting Facts About the History of Public Administration

Masters in Public Administration

Public administration has a rich history that dates back to the Greeks. Public administration is putting laws in action to better serve a civilization and the public.

2011 52
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America’s Home Energy Education Challenge

Data.gov

The post America’s Home Energy Education Challenge appeared first on Data.gov. Energy

2011 40
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Rooftop Solar Challenge

Data.gov

The post Rooftop Solar Challenge appeared first on Data.gov. Energy

2011 40
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More than 1000 votes for Popular Choice GreenApp Fueled by Communities, Engagement

Data.gov

In less than a week since Popular Choice voting began in our Apps for the Environment challenge, you already placed more than 1200 votes in support of your favorite green apps. We’re excited by the response from the community, but not surprised after people from around the country already submitted almost 100 ideas for apps and created 38 final products that both use EPA data and promote public health.

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Modeling a Green Energy Challenge after a Blue Button

Data.gov

On Monday, President Obama declared this week National Health IT Week. To kick it off, HHS Secretary Sebelius co-hosted a Consumer Health IT Summit where the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation announced the creation of bluebuttondata.org. This new website advances the movement of enabling consumers to download their personal health data and share it with health providers, care givers, and others they trust—all by the click of a button.

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Creating the Emissions and Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID)

Data.gov

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Emissions and Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) is a comprehensive source of data on environmental characteristics of almost all electric power generated in the United States. eGRID is unique in that it links air emissions data with electric generation data for United States power plants.

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Data.gov’s Journey Continues

Data.gov

Aloha! This will be my final blog entry as Program Executive for Data.gov, as I am departing to become the Chief Information Officer for the State of Hawaii. There, Governor Abercrombie and I will work together to bring Hawaii’s data forward and look at ways to continue to collaborate with this team and with all of you.

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2022 in Libraries

Librarian.net

Previous years: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Not a big year for libraries though I did get to one new one in Fairlee. Kimball (56) – Once the library opened, it stayed open.

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2021 in Libraries

Librarian.net

Previous years: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 and some reviews from 2003. Only my regulars this past year. I picked up shifts at my local library and did a few months at Chelsea Public Library while they searched for a full-time librarian.

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Welcome Your Advice on the Second Edition!

Human Transit

A lot has obviously happened in the history of public transit since book came out in 2011, including real things like the pandemic, unreal things like the hyperloop , and some things that are real but overhyped, like microtransit.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

One-time investments in CLT properties can keep those properties affordable as long as the CLT exists, ensuring affordability for far longer (Institute for Community Economics 1982, Jacobus and Brown 2010, White 2011). 2011).

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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here was the twitter thread of what I read last year. I’ll be posting on Mastodon this year instead.Find me there at [link].

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I noticed an article that Baltimore County, Maryland is on the verge of passing a plastic bag ban. DC did that in 2009. There is an article from Fox45 in Baltimore that states: " Law enforcement expert says liquor stores are hotspots for crime in Baltimore City."

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2021 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here was the twitter thread of what I read last year but I should note, it has two 46es on it. I read about the same this year.

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Mary Campbell, The Housing Oprah: Everybody Gets A House

Iron Sharpens Iron

She earned an Associate Degree in Paralegal Studies from Kaplan University in 2011. She earned an Associate Degree in Paralegal Studies from Kaplan University in 2011.

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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

During the period of the (post) 2008 recession, Walmart, recognizing that it achieved about as much growth as it could in the suburbs and exurbs, decided to focus on cities.

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Mary Campbell, The Housing Oprah: Everybody Gets A House

Iron Sharpens Iron

She earned an Associate Degree in Paralegal Studies from Kaplan University in 2011. She earned an Associate Degree in Paralegal Studies from Kaplan University in 2011.

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COVID-19: Employer-Based Insurance (with Dave Jones)

Policy Chats

He previously served as California’s Insurance Commissioner from 2011 to 2019. Prior to this role, Mr. Jones served in the California State Assembly chairing the Assembly Health Committee, the Judiciary Committee and the Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services from 2004 to 2011.

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COVID-19: Airline Bankruptcy? (with Michael Huerta)

Policy Chats

Before being named Administrator, Mr. Huerta served as Acting Administrator of the FAA from 2011 to 2013 and FAA Deputy Administrator from 2010 to 2011.

2020 52
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A behind-the-scenes look at the 2022 Sammies gala

Partnership for Public Service

Senior writer and editor Ellen Perlman drafted remarks for the emcee, MSNBC anchor Alicia Menendez, as well as for Partnership President and CEO Max Stier and other high-profile award presenters who spoke during the program, a task she’s been doing since 2011. . On Sept.

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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Uber app (many years ago). Ride hailing has never really made sense as a business. The people who serve as taxi drivers tend to have limited work choices which is why they did/do type of work. It wasn't particularly remunerative but it paid the bills.

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Water Column Sonar Data Collection

Data.gov

In 2011, NGDC, … Continued. NOAA collects and uses active acoustic (or sonar) data for a variety of mapping requirements. As the national archive for multibeam bathymetric data, NGDC manages over 15 million nautical miles of ship trackline data from sources worldwide. The post Water Column Sonar Data Collection appeared first on Data.gov. Ocean

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Why RC buildings failed in the 2011 Van, Turkey, earthquakes: construction versus design practices. Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting map was published by the US Geological Survey shortly after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes. [1]

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Insights from the City of New Orleans’ analytics unit, NOLAlytics, about using data to improve city services: An interview with Oliver Wise, Director, Office of Performance and Accountability, City of New Orleans – Episode #114

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

An important element in those efforts is the Office of Performance and Accountability, launched in 2011. An important element in those efforts is the Office of Performance and Accountability, launched in 2011.

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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

731, 735 (2011)). Trish Sifka —Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group. In May 2021, the Eight h Circuit affirmed the denial of the City of Minneapolis’s and a police officer’s motion to dismiss dog owners’ unlawful search and seizure claim under 42 U.S.C. LeMay v.

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Foresight

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

As an example, consider the impact of the Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear release in Japan in 2011 on nuclear energy policy in other countries (Wittneben 2012,Kim et al.

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2020 Election: A Divided Congress (with Ben Bishin)

Policy Chats

In this episode, UCR Professor of political science Ben Bishin talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about what to expect from a partisan Congress as we enter President Biden's first term in office. About Ben Bishin : Benjamin G. Bishin is Professor of political science.

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CFP: Place of Teaching in Academic Librarians Work - Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship

A Library Writer's Blog

Many librarians identify as teachers or educators as well as librarians, but may not consider themselves as teachers in the same way as faculty, and may not consistently define their work as teaching (Davis, Lundstrom, and Martin 2011). The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship (CJAL) invites submissions to our special issue on the place of teaching in academic librarians’ work.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But the failures in planning extend beyond DC (" Silver Line Metro expansion a classic example of the need to have true regional transportation planning ," 2011). It's tradition for WMATA to hand out pennants to early riders on the day stations/lines open.

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The economic impact of AWS’s investment in Japan

AWS Public Sector Blog

I’m humbled to share that since 2011, AWS has invested ¥1.35 An overview of AWS investments and economic impact in Japan from 2011 to 2022.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

2017 52
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The Latest GSE Stress Test Results: Confirming a Major De-risking Success (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

In fact, house prices did not bottom out after the GFC until 2011 22 and then recovered at a modest pace. In 2011, although at slightly different times, all the major indices bottomed out. [23] Introduction.

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No more housing filtration? (at least in big cities)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

per cent more than tenants in 2011, it fell to 38.84 Filtration is an old concept in urban planning (also called "ecological succession," "invasion-succession theory," or "concentric zone theory").

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Flyer, Park City (Utah) Community Events for September 2022

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This flyer is from Park City Utah, and was placed at the library.

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Government failure in Texas: electricity generation in extreme cold weather (reprint)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The main failure of the report, according to Texas A&M University professor Andrew Dessler, is that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas based projections of extreme demand on the 2011 winter event that left wide swaths of North Texas without power.

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How New Zealand links data from public data sets to address important policy challenges: An interview with Kelvin Watson, Deputy Chief Executive, Statistics New Zealand – Episode #152

Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

For over ten years, Stats NZ (as it is also called) has been working on data integration including the creation of the Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI) in 2011.

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