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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

Founded in 2012, National Voter Registration Day is an annual civic holiday on which the nation focuses on registering Americans to exercise their most basic right – the right to vote. million Americans have registered to vote on the holiday. Read on to learn more about how organizations use AWS to make it simple to register to vote.

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Gerrymandering in Utah

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Top right, how Republicans organized the state's House districts after the 2020 Census. But since we moved here in Fall 2019 it's only gotten worse--partly because I am now more familiar at a granular level of the b.s. In the 2020 cycle, into all four of the districts. And the Governor says when progressives complain, "Vote."

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Building Resilience: Leveraging Innovative Partnerships and Low Cost Capital to Meet Affordable Single-Family Housing Needs

Center for Community Progress

Beginning in 2020, the organization has embarked on an unprecedented plan to preserve or build 2,000 units of affordable housing over the next five years, including 1,250 affordable multifamily units, 500 affordable homeownership units, and 250 single-family rental units. Source: Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership.

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

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Today, the city hosts more narrow, multi-story townhouses, which provide homeownership opportunities in tight spaces, according to the paper “ Here Come the Tall, Skinny Townhouses: Assessing Single-Family to Townhouse Redevelopment, 2007-2020 ,” by Jake Wegmann, Aabiya Noman Baqai, and Josh Conrad of the University of Texas at Austin.

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Elections

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In the 2017 and 2019 elections, I thought Democratic wins in Virginia presaged a lot more. While Biden won in 2020, the rest of the ballot didn't do so well for Democrats. Youngkin was a big time private equity guy before his election, like Mitt Romney.

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The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How One Libary Marketing Team Executed a Grand Opening of Epic Proportions for Their New Library Building

Super Library Marketing

Photo courtesy Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library On a mild night in April 2019, I arrived at a steak restaurant in Schaumburg Township, Illinois to have dinner with a group of people I’d never met. I had been invited to speak at an event put on by the Illinois Library Association.

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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

"), and that often means suburban locations where adjacent land is more easily acquired and controlled by the team, it was announced that Monumental Sports is negotiating with Virginia for a Potomac Yards location (" Lawmakers vote in favor of plan to bring Capitals, Wizards to Virginia ," Washington Post ). Flickr photo by Ken Lund.