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Uber: criminal?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

These firms evaded regulation, but were able to mobilize their customers as advocates and pay for campaigns to support what they were doing, making it difficult for elected and appointed officials to challenge their narrative.

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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. The California Department of Insurance regulates the nation’s largest insurance market in the insurance industry which collects about 257 billion dollars in premiums annually from California. Learn more about Dave Jones via [link].

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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. The California Department of Insurance regulates the nation’s largest insurance market in the insurance industry which collects about 257 billion dollars in premiums annually from California. Learn more about Dave Jones via [link].

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The Vajont Dam Disaster, Sixty Years On

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The intended purpose of the dam was to regulate the flow of water to electrical turbines on the Piave River by ensuring a supply at times when the main river was at low flow. During the construction of the dam a sizeable landslide occurred in the valley upstream. For better or worse, this is an area in which disaster tourism has come to stay.

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

594, 607 (2011). 160D-1311 does not explicitly reference the federal CDBG regulations, nor does it solely provide authority for spending CDBG funds. 160D-1311 suggest that the CDBG regulations may be instructive when interpreting the meaning of “community development programs and activities.” See Blinson v. State , 186 N.C.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This article briefly outlines the history of this work over four areas, focusing on the minimum legal drinking age, the privatization of alcohol control systems, outlet densities, and hours and days of sale."

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Will the GSEs Repeat 2007 - 2009’s Large Losses?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

First, house prices increased by 57 percent 1 over the nearly nine years from their post-financial crisis bottom (2011 Q2) through the last quarter before the pandemic (2020 Q1). 12] This is not a level considered “adequately capitalized” by the regulators. 11] This excludes a 0.10

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