Atlanta, your city government is trying to trick you.
Now that sentence, all by itself, may not seem to you like a “man-bites-dog” lead. read more »
PoliticsProtect Neighborhoods by Saving Zoning
by Bob Irvin 04/15/2021
Atlanta, your city government is trying to trick you. Now that sentence, all by itself, may not seem to you like a “man-bites-dog” lead. read more » »
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Historically Black and White Neighborhoods Share Opposition to Affordable Housing Apartment Complexes
by Douglas Newby 04/14/2021
The Dallas Morning News editorial, A Blow to Affordable Housing, illuminates the opposition to the affordable housing apartment complex by the historically Black neighborhood, Hamilton Park. They are joined by the ethnically diverse neighborhood area of Stults Road in their opposition to this proposed apartment complex named Cypress Creek at Forest Lane. read more » California Governor Newsom's Energy Policies Biased Against Those Who Voted For Him
by Ronald Stein 04/13/2021
It has been a tough year for everyone during the pandemic, but more so on the lower income portion of the population. As we emerge from an emotionally and financially challenging year, we are seeing that the wealthy and middle-income folks have mostly recovered. The bottom half remain far from it. read more » »
Spend Federal Boon Wisely, and Flyover Country Can Win
by Dale Buss 04/12/2021
The mad dash for states, cities and other local units of government to spend the Biden-administration largess has begun. Once the floodgates are opened in a few weeks and the trillions of dollars in “Covid relief,” infrastructure “investment” and other sources of new federal bounty actually start flowing to jurisdictions across the country, America will see a government-spending spree the likes of which this nation has never experienced – not even in the midst of the Great Depression. read more » »
Hope and Fear: Can We Avoid a Racial Apocalypse?
by Joel Kotkin 04/11/2021
Jamil Ford still recalls the disorders of late May. ‘It was like Baghdad’, he recalls, even as jurors listen to the arguments during the trial of Derek Chauvin, the police officer accused of killing George Floyd. ‘I constantly think about it. The past history does not go away’, the African-American architect recalls, noting with trepidation possible National Guard deployments. ‘The mental part is still there.’ read more » »
What Happened to Social Democracy?
by Joel Kotkin 04/09/2021
In a world that seems to be divided between neoliberal orthodoxy and identitarian dogmas, it is possible to miss the waning presence of traditional social democracy. Born of the radical Left in Marx’s own time, social democrats worked, sometimes with remarkable success, to improve the living standards of working people by accommodating the virtues of capitalism. Today, that kind of social democracy—learned at home from my immigrant grandparents and from the late Michael Harrington, one time head of the American Socialist Party—is all but dead. read more »
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The California Economy vs. Sacramento
by Joel Kotkin 04/04/2021
Over the past few years California’s plight has taken on mythic proportions — a cautionary tale of progressive woe among conservatives, but a beacon for a future enlightened capitalism among its woke supporters. The current battle over the potential recall of the preening governor, Gavin Newsom, likely will enhance these extreme interpretations on both sides, but likely will not be sufficient to make the changes needed to restore the state’s legendary promise. read more » »
The Black Pearl of Atlantic Beach
by Rick Harrison 03/26/2021
About a year ago, I got a call from Sonny Matta, one of the founders of Atlantic Beach Redevelopment Public-Private Partnership, introduced me to Atlantic Beach, South Carolina – a 97 acre city along the Atlantic Coast known to locals as The Black Pearl. The town was formed in the 1930’s as a vacation destination for black families with thriving black-owned businesses. It became an entertainment center African American musicians could not just play, but also stay, which was not an option even in “integrated” cities like Los Angeles. read more » »
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A Vision for Cleveland
by Richey Piiparinen 03/24/2021
Part 1: Innovation and “the Next Silicon Valley” It’s mayoral season in Cleveland and a number of viable candidates are lining up. With political candidacies inevitably comes political agendas. We will hear a lot about what a given candidate thinks has or hasn’t worked in Cleveland. We will also hear prognosticating about the future of Cleveland. read more » »
Declining Fertility Rates May Deliver Us to Oblivion
by Joel Kotkin 03/16/2021
For much of the last half-century we have been living, even cowering, under the threat posed by what Paul Ehrlich in 1968 called the “population bomb.” In Ehrlich’s scenario, widely adopted by the environmental movement and its corporate supporters, ever-increasing numbers would overwhelm the resource base and the food supply and would cause dystopian mayhem across the planet. read more » »
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