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Economic impact of big name concert tours: Taylor Swift in Philadelphia

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In line before the concert, " Taylor Swift and 69,000 of Her Closest Friends Descend on Philadelphia ," Philadelphia Magazine.

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How America’s Airports Defend Against Cyberthreats

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In 2017, the widely used Saber booking platform was hacked, leading to the crash of reservations for 20 airlines. Another flaw in airline reservation systems, discovered in 2019, affected half of world carriers but was patched before it could be exploited. Recent incursions have focused on airline reservation systems.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

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“I used to say that people went to an Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles office with a box lunch and a copy of ‘War and Peace’ and hoped not to finish both of them before somebody noticed they were there,” Daniels said in a 2015 interview with Reason magazine. In 2019, the average visit time was 13 minutes, 4 seconds.

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Arts as production: The rock music ecosystem in West Seattle

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We would call these "naturally occurring arts districts" in the vein of " naturally occurring retirement communities " and what I call "naturally occurring innovation districts" (" Naturally occurring innovation districts | Technology districts and the tech sector ," 2014).

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NBA All Star Game in Salt Lake, economic development hype | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on the Pirates baseball team economics

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Utah Business magazine claims that the economic development impact of the Game will be as much as $250 million (" The 2023 NBA All-Star Weekend could boost Utah’s economy by $250M+ ").

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Brightline West should also be used to transform public transit service in Las Vegas

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Las Vegas has a bus-based transit system (" Las Vegas RTC: Where Image is Important ," Mass Transit Magazine ). RTC Southern Nevada is the public transit agency in the Las Vegas Valley.

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Florida's Brightline passenger rail as an opportunity to rearticulate and extend transit service in cities like Orlando

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Boston versus the Raleigh-Durham's GoTransit Model ," 2017 -- " What Richmond can't teach DC about bus services ," 2019 Brightline is a new railroad passenger service that started in South Florida, is expanding to Orlando and intends to expand to Tampa.