State & Local Governance

Can we alleviate racism and systemic inequality by expanding broadband during COVID-19?

Tuesday, Aug 25, 2020 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

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The Avenue

Two local leaders discuss how smarter federal policy can save rural America during COVID-19

Tracy Hadden Loh and Anthony F. Pipa

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

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Upcoming Policy 2020 Event

Back to school amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Balancing students’ right to education against public health

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

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Report

Marijuana liberalization and public finance: A capital market perspective on a public health policy

Stephanie Cheng, Gus De Franco, and Pengkai Lin

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Reports

Kitchen staff work to create food donation boxes to give to needy families in the kitchen of Michelin starred restaurant Eleven Madison Park as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID19) continues in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., May 20, 2020. Picture taken May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Report

Putting idle restaurants to use by fighting food insecurity and creating a more equitable workplace in California

July 23, 2020

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

How states can empower local ownership for a just recovery

Elwood Hopkins, Jennifer S. Vey, and Tracy Hadden Loh

July 23, 2020

Gail Dufault, the Transitional Healthcare Coordinator at the Barnstable County House of Corrections, prepares a dose of Vivitrol at the prison in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts September 2, 2014. Barnstable is believed to be the first jail in the country to launch an intensive voluntary recovery program for opiate-addicted inmates with the use of Vivitrol, an injectable non-narcotic drug that blocks receptors in the brain and bars addicts from getting high off heroin and other opioids for about 25 days, at a cost of about $1,000 a shot. Picture taken September 2, 2014. To match Feature USA-HEROIN/PRISONS/ REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY CRIME LAW DRUGS HEALTH)

Report

State approaches to tackling the opioid crisis through the health care system

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula and Bradley D. Stein

Monday, June 22, 2020

Pedestrians walk through the nearly empty Downtown Crossing shopping area after Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker extended his stay-at-home advisory and his order closing non-essential businesses until May 18 because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., April 28, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Cities & Regions

In the age of American ‘megaregions,’ we must rethink governance across jurisdictions

Tracy Hadden Loh and Annelies Goger

May 7, 2020

A general view of the new PS20 solar plant which was inaugurated last month at "Solucar" solar park in Sanlucar La Mayor, near Seville, October 7, 2009. The solar thermal power plant uses mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays onto towers where they produce steam to drive a turbine, producing electricity. REUTERS/Marcelo del Pozo (SPAIN ENERGY ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E5A71NB401

Climate Change

Renewables, land use, and local opposition in the United States

Samantha Gross

January 2020

Blog Posts

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Up Front

How to make the most of city diplomacy in the COVID-19 era

Anthony F. Pipa and Max Bouchet

Thursday, August 6, 2020

The Avenue

Recognizing that words have the power to harm, we commit to using more just language to describe places

Jennifer S. Vey and Hanna Love

Monday, July 13, 2020

PA via ReutersPeople are out and about in the sunshine at Bristol harbourside as the UK continues in lockdown to help curb the spread of the coronavirus.

Up Front

Reopening the World: City leadership is fundamental to reopening the economy

Anthony F. Pipa

Thursday, July 2, 2020

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Events

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Past Event

Addressing another COVID-19 crisis: Corruption

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

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Past Policy 2020 Event

Disinformation, social media, and foreign interference: What can go wrong in the 2020 elections?

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

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Past Policy 2020 Event

Lift every voice: The urgency of universal civic duty voting

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

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Multimedia

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