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Nathan Rothstein | Feb 17th, 2011 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: New Orleans |
Nathan Rothstein reflects on his experience as an AmeriCorps volunteer in Gulfport following Hurricane Katrina, and insists that AmeriCorps must be saved from budget cuts. (
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Open Cities | Christian Madera | Jul 7th, 2010 | Topic: Governance | Region: | Cities: |
With budget belt-tightening happening across the country, investments in the types of new technology projects that help create more efficient and open government are being threatened. But IT spending has the potential to save governments money—and is something the public supports. (
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Diana Lind | Next American City | Dec 4th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Los Angeles |
A recent
Wall Street Journal article suggests that cities should do anything they can to avoid cutting crime-reduction budgets during these lean times. (
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Josh Leon | Nov 24th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Philadelphia |
Most days if you walk around Philadelphia, you can sense the racial segregation — what kind of impact will Obama, local budget cuts and the memory of Frank Rizzo have on the city’s slow efforts to make the center city all-inclusive? (
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Nick Lalla | Nov 24th, 2008 | Topic: | Region: | Cities: Atlanta, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. |
Earlier this month Philadelphia’s Mayor Michael Nutter hand-delivered a letter to 1500 Pennsylvania Ave, addressed to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson and signed by himself and the mayors of Atlanta and Phoenix. In it he asked for cities to be included alongside banks, financial institutions and automobile manufacturers as recipients of the $700 billion TARP bailout package. That afternoon, the story got top billing on the Drudge Report. Days later it got nothing but ignored and, at best, derided. So what happened? (
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Nathan Rothstein reflects on his experience as an AmeriCorps volunteer in Gulfport following Hurricane Katrina, and insists that AmeriCorps must be saved from budget cuts. (keep reading…)
With budget belt-tightening happening across the country, investments in the types of new technology projects that help create more efficient and open government are being threatened. But IT spending has the potential to save governments money—and is something the public supports. (keep reading…)
