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Paris votes to ban electric scooters

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From " Parisians vote to ban rental e-scooters from French capital by huge margin ," Guardian: Parisians have voted to rid the streets of the French capital of rental electric scooters, with an overwhelming 90% of votes cast supporting a ban, official results show. Getty Images, 2021. Photo: Alamy. Reckless driving.

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More than a quarter of ambassador positions are without a Senate-confirmed official, hindering American diplomacy

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is operating its foreign policy without Senate-confirmed appointees in more than one quarter of all top diplomatic posts. Representative to the Organization for American States were submitted to the Senate nearly a year ago and are still awaiting votes. A year and a half into President Joe Biden’s administration, the U.S.

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BTMFBA: maintaining arts spaces in the face of rising real estate values | Seattle, New York City

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The next stage for Equinox is to become more of a nonprofit arts community development corporation, like Jubilee Housing of Baltimore, which does both studio development and housing. Initially, he turned Equinox into a cooperative, with every tenant holding an ownership stake.

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Revisiting Pittsburgh and Allegheny County as an opportunity for city-county consolidation: The "RiversCity" proposal

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Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021). If it isn’t service cuts, then it’s consolidation — many fire and police departments are either decertifying their operations or merging with nearby departments, Mr. Dougherty said. Later I suggested this for Baltimore City and County (" Opinion: What Baltimore and D.C.

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ALA Midwinter Report 2022

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There were some Round Table readjustments which were mostly paperwork-driven and seemed non-controversial but required voting. We did not get to vote on the Resolution to Support School and Youth Services Librarians Facing Increased Intellectual Freedom Challenges because of time spent discussing TAG which was too bad.

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Celebrating the 2022 Sammies honorees

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The Safety, Security and International Affairs Medal went to Hilary Ingraham, Holly Herrera, Kiera Berdinner and the Operation Allies Welcome Resettlement Team. history, providing housing and services in record time to more than 72,000 people who fled from Afghanistan in 2021 as American military forces withdrew from the country.

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Community building versus economic development

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Cities cost money to operate. I argue that that section of the Metro operates "monocentrically" while the overall design of the system is polycentric, which doesn't help the city so much--BART is a great example of a polycentric system, although SF doesn't really need it because it has its own rail-based transit system.