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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."

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Big omission in blog series on advance hospital/health and wellness planning, public health planning: addiction services

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Experts say raising state alcohol taxes also would make more money available for programs aimed at preventing unhealthy drinking and to enforce the state’s liquor laws. That’s no coincidence, experts say. Currently, the department charged with regulating Colorado’s alcohol outlets can’t afford to fill all its open positions.

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FIRST AMENDMENT/PUBLIC HEALTH: Freedom of Religion During the COVID-19 Pandemic

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2012, 2019 (2017). Although the Clause prohibits the government from punishing or withholding benefits based on one's religious beliefs, the Clause does not entitle citizens to an exemption from a generally applicable law solely due to their religious beliefs. See Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. Comer , 137 S.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

However, this can be hard to discern at times due to inflation and property values benefitting from continuing expenditures to maintain them, and especially during strongly price-appreciating markets (such as the pandemic-distorted years of 2020 and 2021); nevertheless, it is true over the long-term. ” [link].

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Kazis, former Legal Fellow at the Furman Center and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, in the series introduction to “Learning from Land Use Reforms.” Researchers found preliminary evidence that these laws had their intended effect. million units.

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What is government for?

Public Purpose - An Independent Advisory Company

July 19, 2021. and his brother-in-law L. It also will move corporate taxation from the 21% established by the 2017 tax cut up to about 28%. (It It was 35% before the 2017 tax cut.). The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019 suspended the debt ceiling—the amount the country can borrow—only until July 31 of this year.

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Elections

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A Republican won the governorship in 2021 and that was a shock although Ralph Youngkin ran a better campaign than former Governor Terry McAuliffe along with lower Democratic turnout. In the 2017 and 2019 elections, I thought Democratic wins in Virginia presaged a lot more.