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How to Keep the Local Grocery Store Open: A Challenge for NC CED Professionals

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

The quote from Mayor Douglas Shere below comes from an award-winning short documentary, They Came From All Over, documenting the impact of potentially losing a local grocery store in a rural Iowa community. By 2016, it had lost that store. “The town is either growing or it is dying. .”

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Why Strathcona County Council & Administration have Embraced Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

BPBI Project Update to Priorities Committee - September 16, 2014 When complete in 2015/16, these processes will simplify and strengthen business planning and budgeting at Strathcona County, providing focus and direction to all of the County’s activities. He can be reached at 780-464-8206 or by e-mailing linton.delainey@strathcona.ca.

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Why is smartphone addiction on the rise, and are you being affected?

Open Access Government - Technology News

In a 2014 review of internet addiction, the authors considered how internet addiction affects our daily lives. Grey matter changes A 2016 study compared 34 college students with high mobile phone addiction scores, with 34 healthy controls. © DGLimages| iStock How does smartphone addiction affect us?

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30 November 2017 | Rethinking the Government-Nonprofit Partnership: Who’s Funding Whom?, by Kelly LeRoux

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

In the past couple years, several rigorous studies have documented the growth of these nonprofit funding groups, across numerous service delivery areas. Nelson, Ashlyn Aiko and Beth Gazley. The Rise of School-Supporting Nonprofits. Education Finance and Policy , 9 (4): 541-566. Schatteman, Alicia and Ben Bingle. Yandle, Tracy, Douglas S.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

and Baltimore metropolitan areas ," Transport Policy , 2014. Transit and economic development. The velocity of change from NoMA Metrorail station was so significant it convinced me that the public investment with the fastest ROI, at least when done right, is transit. It's three stories, but there is parking for every unit.

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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)

percent) in 2014, after having been purposefully increased by the FHFA and the two GSEs in prior years. percent range since 2014, rather than being materially lower or higher, does not seem to be well understood in the industry or among policy specialists. percent in 2014 and then stayed in the 0.44 percent to 0.49 percent to 0.49

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