Peak Proposals

JUNE 1, 2023

Proposals for community-based projects often require references as well, such as citations to government reports, public datasets, or news articles. Many reference managers also allow you to search for relevant articles from within the tool and have features similar to a PDF reader (e.g., Why Use a Reference Manager?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

I guess that was an opening salvo for Mayor Bowser, as the Post ran an article today about her wanting to address this (" As D.C.’s Office buildings with retail on the ground floor, focused on organizations serving the federal government. s height limit could reinvigorate downtown "). s struggles mount as many workers remain remote ").

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Partnership for Public Service

APRIL 6, 2023

Long-term planning is essential for a potential new administration to be ready to govern from the first day in office and carry out its agenda in an effective and efficient manner. For new presidents to govern effectively and fulfill their duty to the country, they must be prepared to lead immediately upon taking office.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 27, 2024

The reality is that government buildings don't generate a lot of spillover business development, as I discussed in another entry. government offices, DGS said. Notably, most of the newest developments are city properties--the new DCHD building and a building for the Department of Health. The city will continue to pay $1.46

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The Lowe Down

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Article by Abbas Seltzer. Arguments erupted over the role of local government regulations, from mask mandates to dining capacity limits, on shaping business activities. From 2012 to 2020, Wyoming and Mississippi had the largest annual growth in new business applications while North Dakota and Kansas had the lowest.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

AUGUST 23, 2022

I remember reading an article in Harvard Business Review back in 2012 where data science was dubbed the “ Sexiest Job of the 21st Century ”. The post Girls in data: Inspiring the future of female data science appeared first on Open Access Government.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

3 The release of the FHFA report has also sparked a flurry of articles, op-eds, and think tank reports either supporting or countering some or all the recommendations. That’s because both are government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). This was all laid out by Congress in their charters (i.e. the legislation establishing them).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 11, 2022

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. This also came up in comments on a recent Post article on composting, " Composting in NYC is hard."

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JUNE 19, 2023

From the article: Meanwhile, a few hundred feet away, Pioneer Square mainstays Linda Hodges Gallery and the Center on Contemporary Art are celebrating a different milestone: their last First Thursday Art Walk. Hotel Development ," Bisnow), and retail spaces that are getting crushed.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JANUARY 13, 2022

With a critical eye toward the creation and perpetuation of racial disparities, the article examines four categories of policy responses: addressing root causes, preventing homelessness, providing services, and facilitating sustained exits from homelessness, which this post, too, will examine in turn. You can read the full article here.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 9, 2022

charlie shares with us an article by Edwin Heathcote, the architecture columnist for the Financial Times , " Can a city be redesigned for the new world of work? the steady employment engine of the federal government Heathcote captures the issues well. historic architecture 2. historic architecture 2. Flickr photo by Chiara Coetzee.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 7, 2022

From the article: In a first for the province — and believed to be unique in Canada — a “vertical school” will be built into the third floor of the project on Lake Shore Blvd. Toronto is building a school as part of a condominium project (" In a first for Ontario, a school in a condo is coming to Toronto’s waterfront ," Toronto Star ).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 24, 2023

There is an article at Building Salt Lake, " Why isn’t Utah Transit Authority supporting the Rio Grande Plan? ," opining about why the Utah Transit Authority isn't all in on the concept of reviving Rio Grande Station as the "central station" for Downtown railroad and transit service. To me, government is more about denying, saying no.

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Death and Taxes

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I will also be presenting on this material at the 2021 North Carolina Local Government Budget Association’s Winter Conference and that presentation will be followed be a roundtable discussion of some folks around the state sharing their experience with creating and maintaining revenue manuals. Like our whole-government encyclopedia (i.e.,

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The Lowe Down

JANUARY 5, 2022

Article by Nicolas De Mello. births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44; in 2012, the rate was 63.0 Fertility rates are important because governments rely “on the next generation to finance the safety net and provide the caregivers, inventors and public servants of the future” (Miller). The Impact of GDP shocks on Fertility Rates.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

MAY 17, 2022

As I’ve written before , both our state constitution and the Machinery Act (the collection of state statutes that govern property taxes) require that all local governments across North Carolina play by the same property tax rules. That question is one of policy, not law, and the School of Government is neutral on issues of policy.

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Public Policy Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Federalism, the contrarily named power-sharing agreement between the central [national] government and the state governments has been debated in various forms in courts through our country. Image: Wikipedia.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

The average guarantee fee (G-fee) of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), who currently finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion of outstanding first-lien single-family mortgages in the country, 1 is among the most closely-watched numbers by housing finance policymakers and the mortgage lending industry.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

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. Social Media in the United States. In response to this criticism Clay Shirky (2011, p.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

An article, " West Side Market to transition to nonprofit management ," in the Cleveland Plan Dealer reports that the West Side Market there is moving to nonprofit management, while the city will still own the building. It's like, how good do you think DC government as an entity is at marketing now? Anselm's is today. Postcard image.

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