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CIL reprint: Your Digital Life After You

Librarian.net

This article was originally published in Computers in Libraries magazine in 2017. When my father died six years ago, we were pleased to find a Google Document with the usernames and passwords to every account he ?owned? Most of these accounts were things like bank account?s Some of the advice may be out of date.

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Faced with Housing Shortages, Policymakers Test New Reforms To Increase Production

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

” In their research, Monkkonen and his colleagues evaluated California’s 2017 and 2018 reforms to address issues in the state’s “fair share” system. “Cities were more likely to change their local zoning in 2021 compared with 2014 – and to do so more dramatically,” they wrote.

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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I get a kick out of this because this has been raised on and off for 20 years, such as in these reports from 2004-2006. -- Washington Metro: Deficits by Design , Brookings, 2004 -- Keeping Metro On Track: The Federal Government's Role in Balacing Investment With Accountability at Washington's Transit Agency , Brookings, 2005 -- " Mass Transit: Issues (..)

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

While the concept was spurred by my writings on the Purple Line light rail system coming to suburban Maryland, -- " (Big Hairy) Projects Action Plan(s) as an element of Comprehensive/Master Plans ," 2017 but also best practice programs I've across and not always written about. The city did a plan for the area around 2003.

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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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CFP: Book About Teaching with Digital Storytelling

A Library Writer's Blog

The project offers first- hand accounts from the citizens most impacted in Puerto Rico and St. and will include the environmental, social and cultural impact on the most vulnerable citizens impacted by one of the most devastating hurricanes to hit the islands in 2017. Thomas V.I. Dr. Thomas P.

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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. Linton Delainey is councillor for Ward 6.