Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Council votes for $8 billion Medicaid contracts, housing overhaul ," Post ). It's also a failure of elected officials to not see themselves as "asset managers" and "risk managers." -- " Town-city management: "We are all asset managers now" ," 2015 -- " Municipal Natural Assets Planning Initiative, British Columbia ," 2018 What's up?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Council to decriminalize fare evasion in 2018. Transit fare evasion in DC (and elsewhere). The solutions aren’t easy for Metro or its transit police department, which has been accused of disproportionate enforcement against Black residents, leading the D.C.

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zencity

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

If you were engaged civically, you attended city council meetings, voted, took an active role in civic organizations, or helped to establish community organizations. Even in 2018, before the pandemic, roughly half of Americans said they were civically active on social media. It’s a possibility 24/7.

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PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

JANUARY 19, 2017

Note to fellow AWPA-ers: these comments provide a valuable opportunity for self-evaluation in 2018). But one commenter wondered why PMRA had not taken a similar stance when North Carolina passed a law in 2013 that undercut voting rights that disproportionately affected minority citizens (subsequently invalidated by the U.S.

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The Lowe Down

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Democracy is made up of factors such as voting rights, freedom of the governed, and minority rights. Drawing on these data in the period between 2013 and 2018, it appears that there is not a strong correlation between income inequality and democratic backsliding.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 30, 2024

Georgia introduced a new way to create transportation districts, then expected people to vote up or down in less than a year (" Failure of the transit-roads sales tax measure in Metro Atlanta ," 2012). Let alone vote on it. Nearly all of today’s mansion taxes were enacted or expanded between 2018 and 2023. That's 6 months!

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The Lowe Down

JANUARY 4, 2022

As a result, I gather additional county-level data on Trump vote shares, poverty shares for families ages 5-17, and non-white population shares. To control for pre-pandemic changes to school enrollments, I include school enrollment growth rates from the academic year starting in 2018.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

AUGUST 2, 2023

” In their research, Monkkonen and his colleagues evaluated California’s 2017 and 2018 reforms to address issues in the state’s “fair share” system. Ramapo is unusual because its large Orthodox voting bloc was more enthusiastic about housing growth than most suburbanites.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 29, 2024

Volunteers planting a tree in 2018. I already knew that "women's clubs" of various types, both when women couldn't vote and/or tended to be "housewives," were key elements in local civic affairs. Former Republican Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels writes a column for the Washington Post. Getty Images photo.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 18, 2024

Utah joined the program in 2019, not because the state government did the right thing, but because voters approved joining the program in a referendum vote in 2018 (" What is the Status of Medicaid Expansion in Utah? Kaiser Family Foundation).

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