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How Are New Informal Transit Routes Formed?

The City Fix

In 2015, the chairman of a Kampala administrative zone about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the city’s downtown addressed a hand-written note to the chairman of a minibus taxi association. He humbly requested the group of drivers expand its services. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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FITARA Scorecards Spur Agencies to Faster, More Efficient IT Modernization

FedTech Magazine

To see the impact of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, all you need to do is look at the numbers — and the letters. When 24 agencies were first assessed on the FITARA report card in 2015, only seven received a grade of C or higher. Over that same time frame, those agencies have saved…

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Q&A: GSA CIO David Shive Talks Shared Services, Zero Trust and Modernization

FedTech Magazine

At the Government Information Technology Executive Council’s (GITEC) Emerging Technology Conference earlier this year, one name kept coming up among the federal IT experts speaking on the panels: General Services Administration CIO David Shive. FedTech Managing Editor Elizabeth Neus asked him to outline the evolution of federal…

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Reporting on Logistics Trends with Paul Page

First State Insights

In 2015, Mr. Page helped to launch the Logistics Report, the Wall Street Journal's dedicated site for all things supply chain and logistics. He came to the Journal from Congressional Quarterly, where he was economic policy editor from 2012 to 2015. Visit ipa.udel.edu for information on IPA. License.

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Earth Day Part 1: DC isn't achieving its sustainability goals wrt waste diversion

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to the Washington Informer article, " DC's new plan to slash its trash ," DC is adding ten years, one decade more, to its waste diversion goal, from 2030 to 2040 That's 16 years!!!!!!!!!! I've written about DC's waste practices for years (" More on zero waste practice and DC ," 2015). It's boutique, not substantive.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. Inclusionary zoning or LIHTC units only provide below-market housing for a fixed period (Miller 2015), and Housing Choice Vouchers become more costly as rents rise.

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Shortline Rail on Delmarva

First State Insights

CEI) since 2015. Visit ipa.udel.edu for information on IPA. CEI) since 2015. Visit ipa.udel.edu for information on IPA. Cliff has more than a decade of experience in the railroad industry, including working for Carload Express, Inc. To learn more about the Delmarva Freight Working Group, visit wilmapco.org/Delmarva.