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Louisville Courier-Journal mobile newsroom initiative and Salt Lake Tribune Innovations Lab

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

A different kind of concept is by the Salt Lake Tribune , which has created the " Innovation Lab " to communicate about best practice ideas and approaches to problems in the community. We want to change that. So we are bringing our newsroom to you. Interesting.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). He went on to promulgate a law, the Coronavirus Act of March 2020, that is perhaps even more 'extreme', although mitigated by its incomprehensibility.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. The UK Government's 13 policy U-turns do not reflect adaptation to dynamic circumstances, but inability to conceive what to do, how to implement it and how to communicate. The Guardian , 5 May 2020.

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

The number jumped in 2020 and 2021 (the most recent year for which stats are available), first because of COVID restrictions and then staffing shortages. When Justin Davis joined the BMV in 2017 as Contact Center Director, the employee attrition rate there was almost 200% per year, while customer satisfaction ratings were sinking.

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

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

As long ago noted by the Supreme Court, "[t]he right to practice religion freely does not include liberty to expose the community. 2012, 2019 (2017). As of April 24, 2020, there have been close to 900,000 people diagnosed with COVID-19 in America and over 50,000 COVID-19 related deaths. 8, 2020) (last visited Apr.

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What is the competitive advantage for the post-covid city? Doubling down on place values

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Districts are adept at outbound communications but have struggled to manage inbound messages as communications channels expanded beyond phone calls and mail to include texts and emails that can be sent around the clock, the report said.

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How to Build Community Consensus Throughout the Engagement Process

Social Pinpoint

It has even been revealed that community opposition has contributed to the delay or cancellation of more than $30 billion worth of infrastructure projects nationally in the decade to 2017. It’s essential that we build consensus throughout the community engagement process, especially when the project is new or controversial.