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I wrote this paper for an assignment in Poli 204-01. In this class we spent the module tracking a city, and I chose to track Evanston, Illinois. This paper focused on the recent mayoral election that took place in Evanston, and the importance of the…

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…

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…

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

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…

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

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

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…

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.