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Post columnist Colbert King says the DC Council needs to do more oversight

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Housing Authority’s leadership is failing, HUD report says "). And in " Outline for a proposed Ward-focused (DC) Councilmember campaign platform and agenda " (2015), I suggest more tools for ward-specific oversight. The auditor, former Councilmember Kathy Patterson, has done a lot of good reporting.

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

As CEO of Google Public Sector, I am honored to join the board with these distinguished professionals, each of whom brings diverse perspectives and rich experiences to our leadership team. His previous leadership roles include Commander of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), Associate Director for Military Affairs, CIA, and many others.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There are tons of "leadership books" and seminars and articles about leadership lessons from sports team coaches. Before I came up with the Transformational Projects Action Planning approach (" Why can't the "Bilbao Effect" be reproduced? It was an important lesson to me about not learning the wrong lesson from success.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The question of how best to fund Metro is an important one that requires thought leadership and extensive community input. From the article: The capital improvement program reflects the region’s commitment to maintaining and improving your community’s $100 billion transit asset. It begins with “What do we want Metro to be?”

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another element that could be included, in terms of comprehensiveness, is ferry and water taxi services, even though they are pretty niche (" Metrorail shutdown south of AlexandriaNational Airport would have been a good opportunity to promote ferry service ," 2017). Washington Post , July 13, 2003. More network improvements.