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Does Mail-in Voting Actually Increase Election Participation?

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Article By Noah Hendelman. The 2020 United States presidential election saw a major increase in mail-in voting as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. California is the largest of the eight states that currently allow all elections to be conducted by mail and has utilized mail-in voting as far back as 1962.

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Vermont Chapter Councilor Report – ALA LibLearnX 2023

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There were 12 articles that did not have amendments suggested and we zipped through them. On the articles that did have amendments, they concerned with various things. – Article V – Makeup of the Executive Board in the absence of Council, what representation was the optimal makeup and who votes for them. (I

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DC's crime bill overturned by Congress

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

-- " Senate votes to block controversial DC crime bill ," CNN I haven't written a blog entry on this, just comments, and comments on Washington Post article. I write that for the most part, DC's legislators have it pretty good. So, rather than attacking President Biden and Congress for likely blocking the D.C.

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A 21st-Century Education in Ohio Prisons

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The Future Is Bright Pandemic-era funding helped set up the system, Sanders explained, but the program also got a vote of confidence in Ohio’s most recent biennium budget, when state legislators approved funds to continue providing devices. This article appeared in our guide, “ State and Local: Making an Impact.”

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Washington Post editorializes about Purple Line cockups, inadequately attributes them to Larry Hogan

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: As The Post’s Katherine Shaver reported , the start date for the 16-mile light-rail link between Montgomery and Prince George’s counties could slide another seven months, into mid-2027 — or about five years after the completion target of March 2022.

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Revisiting what I wrote about in 2010/2012 back to the fore: regional cultural funding in Greater Detroit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Detroit News has an article, " 2 Detroit museums seek same financial lifeline DIA, zoo got ," about how two cultural institutions based in Detroit, but serving the metropolitan area, The Charles H. I am not sure it passed, because there is a vote in August on a property tax levy for the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The council, which appoints the board, voted unanimously in a closed session Tuesday to ask the entire board to resign, according to two people familiar with the vote. These debacles in MoCo have been the subject of multiple Metro section articles.