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Walmart to close one of its three DC stores

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And an area of DC law that offered a way to oppose the entry -- the environmental impact law -- was underdeveloped, and those lawyers who were willing to oppose except for JOBS! 4, Will Employ 600 People ," WAMU/NPR, 2013): Georgia Avenue NW Fort Totten NE 50 New Jersey Avenue NW The store on New York Avenue never came to be.

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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

124,000 files from Uber were leaked to the Guardian and they found that " Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals." And they did this at the expense of the success of public transit as well as adding to traffic and congestion even while arguing they did the opposite.

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A Study of Low-Income Communities and School-to-Prison Pipelines

The Lowe Down

18% of black boys and 10% of black girls received an out-of-school suspension in 2013-14, compared to only 5% of white boys and 2% of white girls, the U.S. Black students, representing only 16% of student enrollment, make up 27% of students referred to law enforcement and 31% of students subjected to school-related arrests.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). Rioting and looting occurred in London in 2011 and in Concepcion, Chile, after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami.

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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

That question is one of policy, not law, and the School of Government is neutral on issues of policy. Instead, my goal is to discuss a related question of law: If the General Assembly chose to expand the circuit breaker, could it constitutionally do so in a way that allowed for variety in its application across the state?

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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., 2013; Bennett, Breunig, & Givens, 2008). A study by Vragara et al.,