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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I've written about this over the years, " Continued musing on restructuring DC's City Council (mostly) " (2013), is probably the most complete summation of recommended changes. And in " Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda " (2015), I suggest more tools for ward-specific oversight.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

“I used to say that people went to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles office with a box lunch and a copy of ‘War and Peace’ and hoped not to finish both of them before somebody noticed they were there,” Daniels said in a 2015 interview with Reason magazine. In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds.

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Salt Lake City Capital Improvement Program process allows for citizen initiated projects

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I was lucky in that the application I'm submitting had a cost category and percentage schedule outlined in a 2013 city memo. It made it very easy to come up with the budget.)

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Big data/Machine Learning/AI as a policy savior

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

. -- " All the talk of e-government, digital government, and open source government is really about employing the design method ," 2012 -- " Creating the right program vs. the hype of big data ," 2013 -- " Does the focus on big data mean we miss the opportunity for better use of "little data" ," 2015 -- " For a lot of "urban problems" the issue isn't (..)

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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

Also see " A National Mall-focused heritage (replica) streetcar service to serve visitors is a way bigger idea than a parking garage under the Mall ," 2013. Maybe the National Park Service Urban Agenda: A call to action initiative (2015) can help facilitate this, but I am not holding my breath. Another link. Underground them.

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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)

Through 2013, the fee moved up strongly as part of the FHFA’s push to raise the cost of GSE mortgages in an attempt to “crowd in” more private market capital into mortgage lending. The FHFA is currently engaged in increasing cross-subsidization. [20] 24] See the G-fee Report of 2013, issued in November 2014.

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