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Ruth Cuadra

Five Years After Pioneering It in North America, Chicago Might Take Participatory Budge... - 0 views

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    Participatory budgeting -- part of the Open Government trend
Ruth Cuadra

The Museum of Future Government Services - 0 views

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    Government bring the future to its citizens and the world.  What do you think?
Ruth Cuadra

The Urban Reordering: Can the United States Make it Stick? - 0 views

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    The repopulating of urban areas is certainly a trend that will affect museums.  But do you agree that the government should end the mortgage interest deduction because focus is shifting from suburbs to cities?  Don't people who buy condos in cities benefit from the same deduction as those buying houses in the suburbs?
Ruth Cuadra

US Postal Service's official online store is on eBay - 0 views

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    Is this future of quasi-govenment enterprise?
Elizabeth Merritt

Imagine another American Civil War, but this time in every state : NPR - 0 views

  • "We already are seeing 'border war' with individual states passing major legislation that differs considerably from that in other places," says Darrell West, director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, and William Gale, a Brookings senior fellow in economic studies,
  • When and if the issue turns to violent confrontations between local citizens and federal officers, or between contentious groups of citizens, the clash might well take place far closer to home
  • America has an extraordinary number of guns and private militias," they write. How many? They cite the National Shooting Sports Foundation's estimate of 434 million firearms in civilian possession in the U.S. right now. That would be 1.3 guns per person.
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  • But the most meaningful geographic separation in our society is no longer as tidy as North and South, or East and West. It is the familiar divide between urban and rural, or to update that a bit: metro versus non-metro.
  • for now we're less a nation divided into 50 states than we are two nations that are both present in each of those states.
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