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What should the program for a Transportation Management District look like?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

E-bike promotion through voucher-based discounts, as some communities are doing, including Salt Lake, might be worth doing by TMDs. -- There should be a program to promote high quality secure bicycle parking in large apartment buildings. -- Bicycle sharing is expanding. Sometimes they're led by the elected official for that district.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The F&F core business of securitizing and guaranteeing loans essentially takes the below-market cost of the funds raised by issuing mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which reflects the implied guarantee, and passes that subsidized cost through to primary market lenders. Growing profits by exploiting the implied guarantee.

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Public Administration Under Trump: An Age of Institutional Decline? By Don Moynihan

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

system seem designed to constrain elected officials who do not respect them. The civil service is therefore more vulnerable to unified Republican control than other aspects of the policy status quo that feature broad public support, such as Social Security. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2016. — Donald J.