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Nov 20
A Republican Resurgence in George H.W. Bush States? : George W....
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Nov 19
Contrived Sustainability : The draft reauthorization of the federal surface transportation program (highway and transit) in the House of Representatives is filled with initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, often by se...
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Nov 18
Long Beach Freeway Saga : The Los Angeles Times reports progress toward completion of the Long Beach Freeway (I-710) gap between Valley Boulevard in East Los Angeles and Pasadena, with a geologic study finding a tunnel alignme...
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Nov 11
China’s Love Affair with Mobility : China Daily reports that car (light vehicle) sales reached 10.9 million units in the first 10 months of 2009, surpassing sales in the United States by 2.2 million....
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Nov 11
Texas Dominates Milken's New Best Performing Cities Index : Texas metropolitan regions hold down four of the top five and nine of the top 16 places in Milken's new Best Performing Cities Index, released this morning....
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Nov 10
High Speed Rail: Not One Big Happy Family : California High Speed Rail Commission member Rod Diridon is chafing at all of the competition that has been created by the billions committed by the federal government to high speed rail....
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Nov 8
Urban Youth Deserve Chance to Hear About Service Academies : Here’s a disturbing thought as Veterans Day approaches: Some teachers and administrators of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) refuse to allow visits to high school campuses by representa...
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Nov 8
Forgetting Middle Skill Jobs : A new report from Skills2Compete attempts to address a national problem which continues to diminish our country’s competitive edge in the global economy....
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Nov 7
Unemployment Rate Nowhere Near White House Predictions : Check out this chart from geoff at Innocent Bystanders plotting the actual recent unemployment rates against the predicted stimulus-reduced rate from Obama's recovery team: Google's chart interface i...
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Nov 6
The Fog of Stimulus : The news is full of stories about the the impact of the ARRA on job creation, including this one from the The Wall Street Journal about a shoe store owner who created or saved nine jobs with...
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Nov 5
Smart Growth Places 3rd in Houston Mayor's Race : Houston city councilman Peter Brown, unique as a devotee of smart growth (compact development) in this city of light land use regulation, placed third in the mayoral election yesterday....
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Nov 4
Republicans Sweep from Reston to Roanoke : Republicans dominated the Virginia elections, sweeping all three statewide offices and gaining at least three House of Delegates seats. Former Attorney General Bob McDonnell crushed state Sen....
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Nov 2
Riding Out the Recession in the Forty Strongest Metropolitan Economies : A few days ago BusinessWeek released a list of the top 40 metropolitan economies based on data compiled at the Brookings Institution's Metromonitor project....
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Oct 27
New York Migration Study, the State Continues to Lose Residents : The Empire Center for New State Policy has released “Empire State Exodus,” which details New York’s continuing loss of people and their incomes to other states. The report was authored by E. J....
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Oct 26
The Week New Urbanism Died? : It has been a bad media week for New Urbanism. “The day that New Urbanism Died?” was the headline of the St....
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