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This essay was created for Professor Lesley Lavery's POLI 204 US Metro and City Politics class this module. In the attached paper, I talk about the early days of COVID, and how Denver responded by proactively implementing policies. I encountered an…

This paper examines how the Coronavirus pandemic in tandem with racial injustice has impacted Chicago through its government structures, finances, and new developments, and how the city’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, has taken on a bigger role. In…

This paper serves as an overview of commission style city government in Portland, Oregon, with a focus on its use within a larger city and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This paper discusses COVID-19 vaccine distribution, following their path from the national government to people and communities in St. Paul. I start by explaining allocation from the CDC to jurisdictions and the network of partnerships that dictate…

An explanation on why Houston, Texas is a perfect example of everything going on in this country.

A description of the government structure in Minneapolis and its impact on the municipal response to the George Floyd uprisings

I, along with Macalester President Suzanne Rivera, and 46 other members of the Saint Paul Community was appointed to Saint Paul's Community First Public Safety Commission by Mayor Melvin Carter. The group was convened to study and create…

An overview of how the small island city of Sanibel, Florida has handled the COVID-19 pandemic and race relation issues across the nation.

In the spring of 2020, New York City was the epicenter of Covid-19 in the United States. There was one week in mid-April when 700 people in New York City died of Covid-19 every single day. Local and state governments scrambled to mitigate this dire…

As of late 2019, almost 80,000 New Yorkers were homeless. That number has likely increased since then due to the devastating economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since March 2020, tens of thousands of New Yorkers living on the streets or in…