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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

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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. Those who didn’t resign would have faced a public hearing seeking their removal, the people said. We thank the commissioners for their service to our county.”

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Some transit matters in Utah

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I am fine with it. Our reporter took the bus to ski ," Seattle Times ). But free transit for entire month got people wanting it to be free all the time. As David Engwicht, the creator of the concept of transportation demand management realized, if you reduce the number of motor vehicles, you don't have to widen roads.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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Sidney Tarrow defines a social movement as collective challenges [to elites, authorities, other groups or cultural codes] by people with common purposes and solidarity in sustained interactions with elites, opponents and authorities (1998). A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party. 2011; Aday, et al.,