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A Cloud-Driven Business Model

GovLoop

You’re replacing heavy upfront capital expenditures (CapEx) with ongoing operating expenses (OpEx). GSA began its cloud journey in 2011, as the first agency to adopt cloud-based email. Where data centers require periodic investments in hardware, moving to the cloud changes the equation.

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National Library Week, 4/7 - 4/13

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Communities are fighting back. ," Bloomberg, " Public libraries are the latest front in culture war battle over books ," Washington Post , " Book ban attempts spiked in 2023, new research shows ," Politico ), " Book bans in US public schools increase by 28% in six months, Pen report finds ," Guardian ). Libraries as community hubs.

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Department of Health and Human Services’ 2023 federal poverty guidelines are available on this website. 594, 607 (2011). 153A-256 authorizes counties to establish, erect, acquire, lease, equip, support, operate, and maintain a county home for “aged and infirm persons.” See Blinson v. State , 186 N.C. State , 210 N.C.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

To its credit the Bridge Park has helped develop a land trust, but I don't see it doing that much (" Scattered site buying of houses in high cost neighborhoods doesn't seem to be a good way to develop scale for a community land trust ," 2023). -- Douglass Community Land Trust The fourth is using the bridge to leverage arts and culture.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The FHFA just recently announced the last such cross-subsidy changes in January 2023. percent average G-fee in 2021, about one-third represents items such as operating expenses and loan losses, i.e., things other than the return on capital, and the other two-thirds the needed capital return – or a split (with some rounding) of about 0.15

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Powering digital transformation in Canada: AWS Summit Ottawa keynote recap

AWS Public Sector Blog

During the keynote, two Canadian public sector customers—Shared Services Canada and the Canada Revenue Agency—took to the stage to share their stories about how they are leveraging AWS to accelerate innovation, improve citizens’ lives, transform their operations, and drive their missions forward at scale. Digital transformation is continuous.