Disaster Zone blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Check out the benefits of working with elected officials.

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GCN

OCTOBER 27, 2022

With worries over armed poll “monitors,” voter intimidation and risks to staff, some are coordinating with law enforcement or conducting special training ahead of Election Day.

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GCN

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Voter registration data was blocked from being transferred to local election offices due to computer coding issues, officials said.

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GCN

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Polarization Research Lab will merge public opinion data from in-depth surveys with elected officials’ rhetoric to help understand both the causes and the effects of mass polarization.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

By: Mark Shepherd, Mayor, Clearfield City, Utah and Chairman of the Finance, Administration and Intergovernmental Relations at the National League of Cities By now, I am confident there isn’t an elected official in the United States who isn’t aware of the State and Local Fiscal Relief Funds (SLFRF) program created under the American Rescue Plan […] (..)

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GCN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Public-private partnerships and enhanced resource sharing activities have been key to defending against outside threats to voting systems, according to the head of CISA’s National Risk Management Center.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

AUGUST 4, 2023

NLC and Americans for the Arts are partnering to celebrate the work of local elected officials who champion the arts in their communities. The Public Leadership in the Arts Award recognizes elected officials at all levels of […] Source

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NLC (National League of Cities)

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

This year, over 3,600 local elected officials, partners and municipal staff from 49 states, DC, and Puerto Rico traveled to Kansas City, MO for our first in-person City Summit since 2019. Attendees spent three days attending sessions on the most pressing issues facing America’s cities, towns, and villages.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

JUNE 28, 2023

June is Gun Violence Awareness Month and in cities across the country, the impact that gun violence has on communities tops the list of what keeps elected officials up at night.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

APRIL 7, 2023

This year, more than 800 elected officials and city […] Source The Cities Congressional Conference offers local leaders a chance to meet directly with their Congressional Delegation in Washington, D.C. to advocate on behalf of cities, towns and villages.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

JUNE 8, 2023

Garnier, meaning they will both be heard before the court.The cases involve almost identical issues: whether an elected official violates the First Amendment by blocking someone from their social media account where that account […] Source Freed and O’Connor-Ratcliff v.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

MARCH 7, 2023

As the 2023 President of the National League of Cities (NLC) Women In Municipal Government (WIMG) Constituency Group, I am excited to bring attention to this important month and to challenge my fellow women elected officials to look […] Source

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GCN

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Despite accelerated timelines and lack of GIS-trained staff, states have geocoded voter addresses, assigned voters to newly redrawn precincts and improved transparency for voters and elections officials.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In response to these shifts, municipalities across the nation are working to ensure that elected officials and public administrators are representative of their constituencies to improve municipal service delivery. America’s racial and ethnic demographics have become increasingly diverse over the past few decades.

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GovLoop

JUNE 19, 2023

Educate agency staff, the public, stakeholders, elected officials and businesses about your data. Data-driven decisions are the goal in your agency and for other agencies, elected officials, individuals, communities, entrepreneurs and businesses. Don’t keep your valuable work a secret! Provide storytelling or context.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Mostly it's because elected officials roll over in the face of angry motor vehicle operators. Stop Connecticut Avenue bike lanes " ( Washington Business Journal ). It claims that protected bike lanes are being removed across the country because they don't work.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 25, 2023

But there may well be political reasons why such research isn’t done, not the least of which is that elected officials can get lots of mileage out of announcing major economic development initiatives, and they may not want to know exactly how well they’ve panned out.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

MARCH 1, 2023

DC, not being particularly sophisticated politically, was ripe for the picking, and local elected officials welcomed them with open arms. But the elected officials wanted it to happen - - JOBS! miles from our house in Fort Totten, making our area likely the most densely served by Walmart of any other area in the US.

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GCN

AUGUST 15, 2022

State election officials said that they “need help at the federal level” to counter the threat.

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CarahCast

JANUARY 22, 2021

Election officials throughout the country, armed with cyber-trooper support from Washington, went on the offensive this year and staved off significant cyber penetration of the election process.

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Barrett & Greene

MARCH 14, 2023

For one thing, unlike elected officials who can retain their jobs based on simple popularity or name recognition, city managers are evaluated based on their ability to achieve policy goals and improve the quality of life for residents. There’s little question that’s true for a variety of reasons.

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i360 Gov State & Local

JANUARY 25, 2022

Route Fifty - The Georgia Registered Voter Information System will be housed on servers that give election officials a more secure and user-friendly system.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

But then I realized that's an affliction common to most of DC's elected officials, even her opponent David Catania (e.g., his stand on ticketing parents for a child's truancy or absence from school--see " Criminalizing truancy versus creating focused programs to address truant behavior ").

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Center for Community Progress

JUNE 6, 2022

At the height of the foreclosure crisis post-2008, a group of elected officials, community development practitioners, and lawyers came together to craft a strategy to respond to the hemorrhaging real estate market in Ohio.

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Public Works Group Blog

MAY 7, 2022

If the codes are the most recent version, you could send a simple email like this to your elected officials: “I was on the No Code No Confidence website and noticed our community has adopted the most recent building codes. First you can check the No Code No Confidence website.

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Barrett & Greene

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

But the second reason is somewhat more troublesome and it's come up, in off-the-record portions of a number of conversations we've had over the years: Sometimes elected officials don’t want to gather data because they fear it will make them look bad.

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Human Transit

JANUARY 5, 2023

Those decisions are made by local elected officials or their appointees. Smarter development could also reduce the need for coverage services over time. But that’s not the altitude and timescale where most transit decision-making gets done, especially in service planning.

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Partnership for Public Service

MAY 17, 2023

The federal workforce also consists of more than the elected officials and political appointees who hold office and lead agencies. , In fact, nearly 80% of federal jobs are located outside our nation’s capital and in communities all across the country and around the world.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

OCTOBER 19, 2022

From the article: Metro’s prospects for replacing hundreds of millions of dollars in fare revenue that vanished during the pandemic appeared to be waning as stimulus money runs dry, particularly as weary elected officials watch the agency struggle during a year-long train shortage.

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Librarian.net

MAY 31, 2023

“I’m an elected official in my town, Randolph Vermont, and I work all the local elections. On Wednesday I spoke to the assistant to my congressional representative’s assistant encouraging her to be a co-sponsor of the We the People amendment. I prepared remarks because otherwise I tend to go on.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 29, 2023

The Post is acting like the Takoma Park resident who wrote a letter to the editor stating he'd be voting against all the politicians in office because of the failures in building the Purple Line, even though all the failures are basically the fault of the former Governor, not local elected officials, not state legislators. -- " Takoma Park resident (..)

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GovLoop

JULY 19, 2023

Good measurements also help you communicate with constituents and elected officials about what you’re accomplishing and how you’re responding to their concerns. Choosing the wrong metrics can result in projects that fail to make a positive difference, no matter how successful they appear.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

I can't imagine top elected officials in the US deigning to spend much time, even five minutes, with a local NPR affiliate, unscripted--leaving themselves vulnerable to real questioning. Instead they have the chance to ask a handful of questions and try to make their name – and represent the views of their listeners.

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Barrett & Greene

APRIL 20, 2023

Over the course of years, we’ve been aware that the people who generate new policies -- often elected officials – get much of the credit, or blame, for major projects and programs. But the book points to Averell Harriman, the Secretary of Commerce at the time, as the individual who coordinated the implementation of the plan.

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GovLoop

MAY 22, 2023

Important things happen when researchers, communities, families, policymakers, advocates and elected officials are empowered with good data to take smart action,” he said. McCormick Foundation, which is supporting the initiative. This article appears in our guide, “ Why Cloud Matters to You: A Reality Check.”

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 19, 2023

And this is increasingly important as our country becomes more polarized, and even outside of this, people are very quick to criticize elected officials and government processes as uniformly corrupt, etc. But that our management processes aren't set up to do that. But parks agencies and libraries aren't set up to do this purposively.

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Human Transit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

No matter how profoundly we are transforming access to opportunity in a city, most fortunate people, including most elected officials, only care if we propose to build something. (I I can’t begin to express how frustrating this is.).

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