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Shutdowns and continuing resolutions aren’t the answer of effective government

Partnership for Public Service

These stopgap measures hinder innovations in technology, operations and staffing that our government needs to deliver services more effectively, forcing agencies to live with a fiscal uncertainty that prevents them from making long-term, strategic decisions. Shutdowns are bad for the public and federal employees.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

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COVID-19: Airline Bankruptcy? (with Michael Huerta)

Policy Chats

About Michael Huerta: Michael Huerta served as a former administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration between 2013 and 2018. Before being named Administrator, Mr. Huerta served as Acting Administrator of the FAA from 2011 to 2013 and FAA Deputy Administrator from 2010 to 2011.

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COVID-19: Airline Bankruptcy? (with Michael Huerta)

Policy Chats

About Michael Huerta: Michael Huerta served as a former administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration between 2013 and 2018. Before being named Administrator, Mr. Huerta served as Acting Administrator of the FAA from 2011 to 2013 and FAA Deputy Administrator from 2010 to 2011.

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Desperate times sometimes lead to a more marketing-oriented guise: WMATA/Metrorail | Bonus: WMATA's financial crisis

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Now a goodly amount of that is encapsulated in " Branding's (NOT) all you need for transit " (2018), but old pieces like " Making Transit Sexy " (2005), make the point too, less sophisticatedly. Red Line trains will operate every six minutes, while Blue, Orange and Silver line trains will arrive every 12 minutes. to accommodate crowds.

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Community radio as an element of local cultural planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

million, and evidently that was too much, and the station wasn't able to successfully compete for donations for operations as well as loan payments, as they faced KUER-FM, the NPR affiliate owned by the University of Utah. The station was originally owned by another nonprofit, and sold off to a different nonprofit a few years ago. But for $3.5

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Prince George's County Film Festival: developing an ecosystem supporting digital media production

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

By the time it debuted, a once-modest local community of directors and performers had grown considerably, backed by the county’s film office, which opened in 2013. The first film to represent Prince George’s that came to mind for her was a 2020 documentary about the county’s long list of accomplished basketball players. that do the work.