Curiosity was still at the ice cream shop for planning today, with the delicious feast of rock flavours still at arm’s reach and begging to be sampled. In the previous plan, one such flavour, captured in today’s blog image and perhaps most analogous to Rocky Road (not only given that Curiosity drove over this rock causing it to fracture, but also arguably...
Building Partnerships in Indian Country through Relationships: Rules for the Road by Sherry Salway Black This is the ninth and final article in a series of community voices that NPQ, in partnership with the First Nations Development Institute, has published this fall. It features Native American leaders who highlight the practices of community building in Indian...
This story was originally published by Labor Notes. What can union activists across the country take away from the high-profile defeat in the union vote at Amazon in Alabama? The National Labor Relations Board announced April 9 that workers at Amazon’s fulfillment center in Bessemer, near Birmingham, had voted against joining the Retail, Wholesale, and...
2017 finalist: Iberville, Photo credit: Kronberg Wall Architects After visiting La Kretz Innovation Campus in Los Angeles, our Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA) team flew to New Orleans to visit Iberville Offsite Rehabs I & II, the rehabilitation of 46 scattered site historic homes for formerly homeless women and children. Located just north of the...
2017 Finalists: SteelStacks. Photo Credit: Halkin Mason Photography After our trip to Iberville Offsite Rehabs in New Orleans, our team headed north to visit SteelStacks Arts and Cultural Campus, an abandoned steel mill-turned-mixed-use cultural and entertainment district in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The former mill’s iconic blast furnaces now anchor a civic commons...
2017 Finalist: Chicago Riverwalk. Photo Credit: Christian Phillips After touring the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building in Boston, our team wrapped up our site visits to the five finalists for the 2017 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA) with a trip to Chicago. There we explored Chicago Riverwalk Phases II and III, a new pedestrian park providing access to...
National Academy of Public Administration and IBM Center for The Business of Government Release a Special Report: “The Road to Agile Government – Driving Change to Achieve Success” Post Date: November 10, 2020 Report Outlines 10 Agile Principles and Offers Recommendations for Leaders WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Academy of Public Administration today joined the...
Good afternoon from Capitol Hill. The House and Senate were both back in session this week and will be through June 23, when both chambers will depart for the July 4, two week recess. Both bodies will then come back the week of July 10 for what will certainly be a busy month. This week, the leadership of the House and the House Freedom Caucus resumed negotiations on...
As Yogi Berra observed, predictions are hard to make, particularly about the future. But that hasn’t stopped critics of Senator Bill Cassidy’s recently introduced “Foreign Pollution Fee Act” (FPFA) from suggesting that, if enacted into law, it would likely be found to violate the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Assumptions about the vulnerability of FPFA...