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

Partnership for Public Service

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved all 12 appropriations bills for the full Senate to consider, in line with the spending caps outlined in the bipartisan compromise on the debt limit developed earlier this year. The way forward Several legislative reforms would help put a stop to these troubling developments.

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Community radio as an element of local cultural planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Summit County where Park City is then developed a similar tax, called RAP, Recreation, Arts and Parks. While it is a pathbreaking initiative, at the same time, it's static in that it is a funding source extremely difficult to modify for supporting "new" programs, because it requires the State Legislature to change the enabling legislation.

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Options for Expanding Property Tax Relief for Lower Income Homeowners

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Only the General Assembly is authorized to create property tax exemptions, and when that legislative body creates exemptions they must apply uniformly across the state. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Again, I take no position on whether the circuit breaker should be expanded.

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Federal government research hub development initiative

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I didn't know NASA originally planned for a big electronics hub in Boston's Kendall Square, as MIT's Draper Laboratory was an original developer of various electronics systems for the Apollo space program. The Department of Defense as a customer of technology firms has also spurred economic development.

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I can't help but laugh. DC Mayor's third term as a platform for transformation

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And I "argued" with her about various legislative initiatives that at the end of the day, had no impact, because they provided no additional remedies to give citizens the power to respond to and potentially stop things they didn't like, by providing a process for review and participation.

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FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

This legislation included a substantial "crack" in the over 70-year-old, court-imposed Feres doctrine, which barred tort claims by military members against the United States for injuries incurred incident to service. Trish Sifka , Senior Attorney, National Legal Research Group. United States , 733 F.3d 3d 871, 878 (9th Cir.

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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. 40 Nevertheless, it has been most of a decade since the CCF was first developed. public comment periods) were bypassed.

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