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California State Controller Betty Yee: A Career in Public Service

Policy Chats

In this episode, California State Controller Betty Yee talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about her career in public office. Yee was elected in November 2014, following two terms of service on the California Board of Equalization. About Betty Yee : State Controller Betty T.

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California State Controller Betty Yee: A Career in Public Service

Policy Chats

In this episode, California State Controller Betty Yee talks with students from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about her career in public office. Yee was elected in November 2014, following two terms of service on the California Board of Equalization. About Betty Yee : State Controller Betty T.

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Voices: The Role of Mobile Printers Grows in Local Government and Public Safety

State Tech Magazine

In just a few years, the global mobile printer market has grown exponentially, from $290 million in 2014 to $2.89 This growth underscores the increasingly important role printer mobility and portability are playing across industries, including public services. billion in 2020, according to Emergen Research.

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Lies, damn lies, and misleading data: bus service (DC Circulator)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The fact is that public services ought to be offered where they are used, although breadth--offering services where they wouldn't otherwise be available--is an important criterion too. The thing is, most Circulator bus lines duplicate in some ways Metrobus service.

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Delinquent Property Tax Enforcement Could Be the Missing Piece in Fighting Vacant Properties

Center for Community Progress

In Lake County, Indiana, Community Progress found that from 2009-2014 on average 92% of tax liens did not sell, leaving over 10,000 likely abandoned properties recycling through the system each year. In many communities, delinquent property tax enforcement systems also unfairly burden communities of color.

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

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

This is unfortunate, as nonprofits are increasingly compensating for government failures, and becoming more rather than less relevant to the practice of Public Management in the process. This is true particularly in the current political climate of disinvestment in public services, and especially safety net programs.

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What Causes “Urban Prairies” in Shrinking Cities?

Center for Community Progress

Vacant properties and declining public services can all discourage people from moving in and promote moving out, leading to still more shrinkage. Owners give up, walk away, and stop paying property taxes, and increasing numbers of properties revert to public ownership for nonpayment.

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