Complete the following as a civic engagement assignment.  The submission should be between 1 and 1 1/2 pages in length.

• Listen to a news radio outlet for fifteen minutes, noting the time  and date that you listened and to what station.  In the Chicagoland  market, AM 780 is a possible source.
• Report on what was presented and how much time was devoted to commercials
• Distinguish between information that was national in scope and  information that was specific to the state and metropolitan area in  which you live.

Funding for Education” Please respond to the following:

• From the above, evaluate the disparity of your state’s budget allocation for education and property tax to the various localities. Based on your assessment, challenge or defend the equity of the system across the various localities.
• Identify and explain your choices for reductions and increases. Discuss at least two lessons you learned about the challenge of balancing the federal budget.

Looking further into the chapter, theoretical grounds of policy implementation, Buse et al., (2012) argue that policy implementation is the execution of a formulated policy – turning theory into practice.  When turning theory into practice, the authors stated that it was common for certain observations.  What are those observations?
Chapter 16 – Following the chapter reading, the authors assert that the twentieth century is considered as the century of population explosion and fossil fuel burning, environmental policies and the transition to effective use of renewable energy sources as a priority with a strategic focus on specific countries around the world.  In addition, this move has created several different projects whose main focus is to formulate policies associated with climate change and energy governance.  Many of the policies and projects identified aim to support the energy sources switching between fuels like fossils and nuclear power to renewable like solar, wind, and or water.  Specifically, the chapter provides the foundations of policy implementation, and methods as well as investigations of five policy implementation case studies through a comparative analysis.
700 word discussion: Looking further into the chapter, theoretical grounds of policy implementation, Buse et al., (2012) argue that policy implementation is the execution of a formulated policy – turning theory into practice.  When turning theory into practice, the authors stated that it was common for certain observations.  What are those observations?
identify, and name those observations,
provide a clear narrative to support your response based on this case study — Not a general definition from the Internet