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ISGPP Conversation on Birthing New Age Public Servants

This Day 24 Jun 2018

The thrust of Ibadan School of Government and Public Policy (ISGPP) think-tanking is governance ... Governance can be subsumed under public administration and public policy ... Birthing the New Age Nigerian Public Manager. The impressive gathering brilliantly took the pulse and diagnosis of the state of public administration in Nigeria ... However, public administration and public policy in the twenty-first century is undergoing dramatic changes....

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Only public schools can save the republic

The Galveston Daily News 24 Jun 2018

Diverse public schools provide a convincing reason for moving to Galveston ... Public schools assured the assimilation of these populations ... While elitism drove the rise of private schools in the north, in the south the Jim Crow laws and segregation guaranteed the separation of whites and blacks in public schools ... As we enter the 21st century, the role of public and private schools remains critical....

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Noah Smith: Domino's Pizza fixing potholes is an ominous sign

Omaha World-Herald 24 Jun 2018

It suggests a breakdown in the government’s ability or willingness to carry out one of its core functions — the efficient provision of public goods. When economists use the term “public goods,” they mean something very specific. A public good is something that one person can use without making it less available to another person — in other words, a good that doesn’t get “used up,” in the way that goods like food or cars do....

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ACLU hopes to shed light on police

Union Leader 24 Jun 2018

But the New Hampshire chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union believes the public should have access to such investigation files, which police departments have long held are exempt from disclosure, and it is preparing to ask for them and to possibly reverse 25 years of legal precedent in the process ... "Whatever the punishment may be, I understand the public's interest in knowing exactly what they did," Capano said....

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Labour pushes for publicly owned railways after ScotRail ‘misses targets’

Scotsman 24 Jun 2018

Scottish Labour is to step up its campaign for public ownership of the railways after figures showed ScotRail missed performance targets throughout the last year ... The Public Performance Measure (PPM), which looks at service punctuality and reliability, varies across each period. • READ MORE (from May 2017) - Labour calls on SNP to back public ownership of the railways ... RMT calls for services to be taken into public ownership....

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‘Do You Know Your Right of Publicity?’ (Audio and Transcript)

Truth Dig 24 Jun 2018

In this week’s episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” host and Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer traces the shifting boundaries of publicity with someone who knows a thing or two about the topic ... Rothman, a law professor at Loyola Law School, has been at the forefront of defining publicity, identity and privacy rules in the internet age ... Her latest book is called “The Right of Publicity ... “The Right of Publicity....

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Charter faciliities rules up for vote

Arkansas Online 24 Jun 2018

Proposed rules for carrying out a 2017 state law meant to give open-enrollment charter schools easier access to vacant or little-used traditional school campuses will go for a vote Monday by the state's Commission for Public School Academic Facilities and Transportation ... The proposed rules were the subject of an initial public hearing in January ... The revised draft rules attracted no speakers at a second public forum, she said....

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#LandExpropriation: 'Only identifiable submissions will be considered'

Independent online (SA) 24 Jun 2018

The committee called for written public submissions, and by the closing date for written submissions on June 15 the committee received more than 700,000 electronic and hard copy submission forms from the public, he said ... A final draft of the report was expected to be submitted by August 3, by which date the committee would have concluded its public hearings in the provinces and heading back to parliament to continue its work....

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Both parties need to stand up for public education

Johnson City Press 24 Jun 2018

the privatization of public education, an aim they seek to achieve by relentlessly denigrating public schools, depriving them of resources (in order to prove that they’re ineffective), and promoting vouchers and charter schools in any way possible ... As I told her, I’m not asking Democratic leaders to take an enormous leap to the left on public education ... The American public is already there....

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#LandExpropriation: Committee receives over 700 000 public submissions

Independent online (SA) 24 Jun 2018

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State charter facilities rules up for vote; law lets schools buy unused sites

NWA Online 24 Jun 2018

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NHI is the health equivalent of the land question

Independent online (SA) 24 Jun 2018

When public health finds itself in trouble, history is conveniently forgotten and the argument is that the poor and their government brought it upon themselves through poor management, incompetence and corruption ... I shall demonstrate my facts through a story related to me by a doctor who went through this historical turmoil, as he was employed as a doctor when the public health-care system was still at its prime around Johannesburg....

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First reading of public safety fee approved

The Argus Observer 24 Jun 2018

ONTARIO — The first reading of a $5 monthly public safety fee for Ontario residents has been approved by the Ontario City Council, and will come back before the governing body before it is formally adopted ... “The City Manager proposed a public safety fee and the budget committee approved a $5 public safety fee listed as a separate line item on the water and sewer bills.”....

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