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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Ban on Possession of Large-Capacity Magazines Did Not Facially Violate the Second Amendment

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that assuming a California state statute prohibiting, with certain exceptions, the possession of large-capacity magazines holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition implicated the Second Amendment, the statute did not facially violate the Second Amendment. Becerra , 366 F. 3d 1131 (S.D.

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Smarter Government: Lodi, Calif., Improves the City’s Cyber Resilience

State Tech Magazine

After suffering a ransomware attack in 2019, Benjamin Buecher, IT manager for Lodi, Calif., and his team upgraded their cyberdefenses to include Rubrik Cloud Data Management. The robust backup and disaster recovery solution simplified the city’s IT environment.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

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

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Indiana BMV Builds on Three Pillars to Drive up CX

GovLoop

“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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Downtown St. Paul needs 20,000 more people to thrive | implications for urban revitalization in the post covid city

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Note that before the book, there was an article in Fortune Magazine , " Downtown is for people " ( pdf ). I actually have the original magazine--from an estate sale in Bethesda, found by Suzanne, not me, but it's in DC. Also see " What would be a "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for DC's cultural ecosystem ," 2019.

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Leveraging Libraries to End the Digital Divide

State Tech Magazine

In 2019, public libraries hosted roughly 224 million internet use sessions for some of the roughly 54 million Americans who used the internet in public places. Leveraging America’s libraries can avoid duplication of work and accelerate progress. During the…

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Q&A: The National Science Foundation Is Adapting Teleworking to a Hybrid World

FedTech Magazine

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Science Foundation already had a high percentage of teleworkers; in 2019, 94 percent of the agency’s 1,500 employees worked remotely, with nearly one-quarter of those taking three or more days per week.

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