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• Post office

  
  Budapest daily photo — Authority: 128
  Post office with some christmas decoration. The place where I say goodbye to my money every month when I pay my bills. Tweet This Post
  17 hours ago

• 1week Left for British Taxpayers with Undisclosed Offshore Investments to Come Forward

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 152
  U.K. Taxpayers with undisclosed offshore investments have just one more week to come forward under the New Disclosure Opportunity (NDO). To take advantage of this final opportunity to benefit from the 10% penalty rate all that has to be done is notify HMRC by 4 January 2010. Notification can be done online and does ...
  18 hours ago

• Municipal management: Things could maybe worse (San Francisco)

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 526
  As much as I write about DC, and clearly the problems result from similar kinds of systems failure, this expose of failures in governance, management, and fiscal responsibility in San Francisco, " The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. " from the San Francisco Weekly is pretty shocking. Interestingly, if you have read ...
  2 days ago

• I like Dr. Gridlock, but

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 526
  Robert Thomson is the commuting-mobility columnist for the Washington Post. Most of his writings are quite good, but he persists in neglecting to put much attention on the fact that driving is subsidized to the tune of many dollars per gallon--the reality is that taxes, tolls, and fees typically pay no more than 50% ...
  6 days ago

• Memo from a muppet

  
  The Standard — Authority: 583
  So John Key thinks I’m a Muppet. “[when Im in Hawaii on holiday] they’ll send me stuff … those Muppets in the background who send it all to me” * Well f#ck you, John. While you’re off in Hawaii with your DPS pouring you drinks, I’ll be working. The days I do get on ‘holiday’ I have to be online ...
  6 days ago

• Snow-free roads, or school places?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  It may seem crazy that our infrastructure cant cope with a little snow, but the cost of gritting all roads would be so huge that other public services would suffer Far from putting everyone in a festive mood, the snow has led to a repeat of the hand wringing at the state of the UKs infrastructure that we saw back in ...
  6 days ago

• The perfect gift? How about an end to loneliness – and not just at Christmas | Jonathan Freedland

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  A remarkable experiment is getting people visiting one another again, and its radical lessons could boost public services Let us take as our seasonal text the words of St Elvis of Memphis: Itll be lonely this Christmas, Lonely and cold. Itll be cold, so cold Without you to hold This Christmas … As so ...
  1 week ago

• Upping the expectations on snow removal

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 526
  Its not enough to pat yourself on the back with regard to snow removal from streets (see " Busy rush hour as people head to work and shop " and this editorial, " D.C. area weathered the historic snowstorm with ease ," from the Washington Post ), how about being concerned about the removal of snow from sidewalks and ...
  1 week ago

• Whanau Ora: privatisation by stealth

  
  The Standard — Authority: 583
  The government is beginning to explain more about its Whanau Ora plan, although it is still startlingly vague considering we’re talking a billion dollars of taxpayer dollars a year. The idea seems to be to get more money that is currently spent by social welfare departments passed on to private community groups, ...
  1 week ago

• What power the people? | Daniel Leighton

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Giving power back is not as simple as decentralising government – more personal challenges must be addressed In political debate, the issue of the distribution of power is increasingly displacing narrower concerns with the distribution of income and opportunity. As Cabinet Office minister Liam Byrne recently put ...
  1 week ago

• Public services – the stakes are high

  
  Matthew Taylor's blog — Authority: 468
  The effectiveness of public services is vital to our social fabric and important to our economic competitiveness. Public service policy will feature heavily in the forthcoming General Election campaign, with debate overshadowed by the  fiscal deficit.  Looking at this context, surveying innovative practice in ...
  1 week ago

• Obama and the Insane Clown Posse

  
  Listics — Authority: 103
  Eric Holder owes America a special prosecutor. We need to bring charges against Bush, Cheney, and their willing accomplices. (That would be you, Hate Radio pundits; and you, PNAC; and sadly lots of others.) President Obama shows no inclination to get the mess sorted out. In fact he seems to enjoy the cluttered agenda, ...
  1 week ago

• The challenge of co-production

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 430
  A new discussion paper by NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, argues that the key to reforming public services is to encourage users to design and deliver services in equal partnership with professionals. Co-production as a new way of thinking about public services has the ...
  1 week ago

• Letters: Contest over a mutual future

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  For those following the ongoing sell-off of the NHS, the news that Labour will launch a commission to investigate how far it can go in its ambition to apply the John Lewis partnership model to healthcare, education and housing comes as no surprise, ( Commission to study John Lewis plan for NHS , 15 December). It ...
  1 week ago

• DC* just drives me crazy (transportation oversight edition)

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 526
  I could probably write 4 or 5 posts/day using this title, if only I had the time to write about everything that drives me crazy about governance and policy development and "planning" in DC. And not getting around to being able to discuss the Mayoral race (Vince Gray = ethical issues too; Don Peebles = more connected ...
  1 week ago

• Highlights Reel: SEIU 2009 Organizing Successes

  
  SEIU — Authority: 142
  Watch video highlights from some of SEIUs successful organizing campaigns of 2009. Campaigns highlighted include Missouri in-home caregivers, 1199SEIU Boston healthcare workers, Local 721 LA city engineers and professionals, child care workers in Illinois and Cleveland, 1199WV/KY/OH nursing home workers. If youre ...
  1 week ago

• Gov. Rells "Edward Scissorhands" approach to the budget

  
  SEIU — Authority: 142
  Thirty-six percent of Republican CT Governor Jodi M. Rells proposed cuts directly target children and will cost the state another 5,000 jobs --on top of the approximately 30,000 jobs that have been lost due to previous budget cuts. At a press conference yesterday organized by District 1199/SEIU on the steps of the ...
  1 week ago

• Social policy in the noughties: 10 years of change and controversy

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  At the fag end of a turbulent decade for public services, Guardian specialist writers assess the winners and losers Denis Campbell on public health The governments tough action against smoking will stand as one of its most valuable legacies. Determined and sometimes bold measures such as banning tobacco ...
  2 weeks ago

• Los Angeles vs. DC in transit system leadership accountability

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 526
  Both Los Angeles Metrolink railroad passenger system and the WMATA subway system in DC experienced catastrophic events. In September 2008, a Metrolink crash killed 25 and injured more than 1oo people. See this link for Los Angeles Times pooled coverage. In June 2009 9 people died and more than 70 were injured ...
  2 weeks ago

• Whose mutualism is it anyway?

  
  Next Left — Authority: 569
  Mutualism is an intriguing contender as a significant idea for the next left , not least because a surprisingly wide range of voices recommend the principle at least. The cooperative party have been campaigning for it as a traditional value arising from the heart of the Labour movements history, with their feelings ...
  2 weeks ago

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