public works administration

• The Possibility of Effective Participatory Governance: The Role of Place and the Social Bond

The conventional wisdom, and much of the citizen participation literature in public administration, works from a presumption that the stability of the social bond will come about as a result of more and better participation. However, under the conditions of late modernism including incommensurable language games, participation, even in the form of robust discourse, is insufficient for generating the social bond. In such conditions, some form of the social bond must exist prior to and in order for discursive participation to occur in the first place. Again, in the conditions of late modernism, the mechanical solidarity described by Emile Durkheim, or a social bond based in shared culture, religion and values no longer exists. In such conditions, some other basis to form the social bond m...

• Public Administration and Management
• Vol. 5 Nbr. 1, January 2010

• 97 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 5431, 97 Daily Journal D.A.R. 8805 Ralph W. Keith; Esther May Keith; Harold E. Grady; Edith W. Grady; James B. Gillespie; Helen Gillespie; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Sierra Club; Environmental Defense Fund; Freeway Fighters, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. John A. Volpe, as Secretary of Transportation; Sheridan A. Farin; Donald E. Trull, as Division Engineer, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; California Highway Commission; California Department of Public Works; James A. Moe, as Director of California Department of Public Works; Robert Datel, as State Highway Engineer, Division of Highways, Department of Public Works, Defendants, Robert L. Kudler, Non-Party-In-Interest-Appellant., 118 F.3d 1386 (9th Cir. 1997)

Charles F. Kester, Woodland Hills, CA; and Wayne W. Smith, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Los Angeles, CA, for Non-party-in-Interest-Appellant. Carlyle W. ...

• Federal Circuits

• Houlton Hacks Away at '06 Town Budget Councilors Approve $7.7m Plan with Cuts to Police, Public Works, Administration

HOULTON - Councilors were busy trimming late last week, as they made their final cuts to the more than $7.7 million fiscal year 2006 municipal budget. Despite the insistence of Houlton Police Chief Daniel Soucy that his department needed to catch up on training, councilors chopped a total of $30,000 off his new budget.

• Bangor Daily News
• February 08, 2006

• Time Is Running Out On a Shield Bill

When you've invested so much time, energy and organizational resources to explain to lawmakers and the public how a reporter's privilege works, it's infuriating to listen to administration officials raise vague, unsubstantiated alarms about how shield laws threaten the entire criminal justice and national security systems. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) and Rick Boucher (D-Va.), it has a slim chance of gathering support in the Senate, which has been intent on stripping its bill to only cover confidential source information and instituting multiple layers of tediously redundant national security provisions.

• News Media and the Law
• Vol. 32 Nbr. 3, July 2008

• These Walls: Ocean Dental Headquarters in Stillwater

There's no disguising the historic origins of Ocean Dental's Stillwater headquarters. From the telltale gray concrete foundation and chipped yellow brick walls to its arched windows, elevated entryway and sloping Greek cornice and columns, the architecture employs just about every element in U.S. Public Works Administration architecture. It's a beautiful building," said Josh McKim, executive director of economic development for the Stillwater Chamber of Commerce.

• The Journal Record
• January 05, 2012

• Brentwood Considers Using Time Clock

Brentwood employees could be required to punch in and out of shifts on a time clock. Council members and department heads will discuss this week how using a time clock would affect public works, administration and police employees.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• February 17, 2011

• Job Creation Legislation May Be Part of Special Session in Md.

Gov. Martin O'Malley said Wednesday he may push for job creation legislation during the special General Assembly session in October. Speaking after the Board of Public Works meeting, O'Malley said his administration is "considering" adding jobs measures to the agenda.

• The Daily Record (Baltimore)
• October 12, 2011

• Public Art in Hard Times

Recognizing that during the Great Depression the country needed art more than ever, in 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration created the Public Works of Art Project - the first federally-sponsored program to support the arts. 7934; New Deal for Artists, on display at the Smithsonian...

• In These Times
• December 18, 2009

• Bluefield Board Weighs Changing Name of Stadium

BLUEFIELD - Mitchell Stadium or Merrill Gainer Stadium? It's a question that's got a lot of people talking in Bluefield. Bluefield's Mitchell Stadium is currently named after Emory P. Mitchell, who served as Bluefield's city manager during the 1930s and 1940s. At the time, Mitchell was instrumental in bringing Works Public Administration projects to the city to help build the stadium that was named in his honor.

• Charleston Gazette
• July 20, 2010

• These Walls: Daniel Webster High School in Tulsa

To some observers, Tulsa's historic cultural bias shines through the architecture of its two Depression-era high schools, Will Rogers and Daniel Webster. Although both represent yellow-brick art deco treasures from the U.S. Public Works Administration era, striking differences separate the two that also reflect their separate class cultures.

• The Journal Record
• June 17, 2010