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Changes in the Ransomware Threat to State and Local Governments

State Tech Magazine

While the report found that attacks were down in 2022, ransomware targets still reported very large number of attacks compared to levels in 2018, 2019 and 2020. And with local governments usually dealing with limited resources, they’re often considered low-hanging fruit when it comes to cyberattacks.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

CLTs provide a community ownership approach to providing affordable housing, trying to balance the homeowner desire to build equity with the community and societal desire to maintain an affordable housing stock and the desire of local governments and other funders to sustain housing intervention funding. 3 (2018): 489-530.

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

It is no surprise that Florida city managers placed the forecasts for the pandemic’s impact on local revenues as the top priority, as local governments are revenue-driven entities. The tradeoff between revenue growth and stability has always been a concern for local governments.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Sometimes a local government may make grants to organizations in this space that are nonprofits, but the groups are generally a mix of for profits and nonprofits. And it's not particularly systematic.

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Denver and Rio Grande Rail Trail in Davis County, Utah: a great foundation, full of (missed) opportunity

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Also see for discussion of robust trail planning: -- " Comments on the Central Avenue Connector Trail concept (Prince George's County, Maryland ," 2015 And a framework for sustainable mobility planning: -- " Further updates to the Sustainable Mobility Platform Framework ," 2018.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. This concept eludes almost everyone who writes about transit.

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How Virginia unleashed the power of data

AWS Public Sector Blog

Rivero, now an executive government advisor at AWS, has experience making data work for government. In August 2018, Governor Northam appointed him the chief data officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia. His first order of business was to create a data governance framework. We were also able to evolve and iterate.