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Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

-- " Paris mayor plans to triple SUV parking tariffs to cut air pollution " From the article: Paris will hold a referendum on 4 February asking residents to vote for or against a specific parking tariff for heavy, large and polluting SUVs. I don't remember the exact definition. And my neighborhood was the first.

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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. It might well happen again with the bill allowing illegal immigrants and other noncitizens to vote in local elections. This letter to the editor (" The D.C.

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

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the article: What’s featured here is not definitive, and perhaps not even fully representative of what it looks like to have an artistic space of one’s own in the city. But one group has managed to hold off the forces of gentrification — and keep growing — for almost two decades.

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Connecting the dots between the customer experience and trust in government

Partnership for Public Service

These findings, highlighted in our 2021 and 2022 polls on public trust in government, raise questions about the overall relationship between the federal customer experience and public faith in federal institutions—a key issue examined in the President’s Management Agenda. adults from Nov. 29 to Dec.

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Public housing administration as a measure of government (in)competence

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DC received a scathing report from HUD about the failures in managing the city's public housing stock of 8,000 units, 25%--2,000-are vacant because most are uninhabitable (" D.C. It attributed the issue to management failure and said the vacancies have accelerated the agency’s steadily deteriorating financial condition.

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ALA Midwinter Report 2022

Librarian.net

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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City of Joplin, MO Residents Engage with City Budget Survey to Rank Seven City Priorities

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

"Priority-based budgeting will allow city officials to regain control of the budget." - City Manager Sam Anselm The City of Joplin, Missouri is in their first year of the priority based budgeting process. This will help better manage the broad number of services we provide, while recognizing our budget constraints.”