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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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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Is It Western Europe's Turn for a Brain Drain?
by Nima Sanandaji and Klas Tikkanen 04/08/2021
While much of the focus is on the Covid-19 pandemic, the geography of Europe’s knowledge intensive jobs is being reshaped. For the fifth year, the European Centre for Entrepreneurship and Policy Reform (ECEPR) has in collaboration with Nordic Capital, a leading Nordic private equity firm, mapped the locations of knowledge intensive jobs of Europe. The brain business jobs index examines jobs in four knowledge-intensive industries—the tech sector, information and communications technology (ICT), advanced services, and creative professions. read more » »
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The National Academy of Wishful Thinking
by Randal OToole 04/07/2021
Democrats want to build more transit infrastructure in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The only problem is that transit emits as much or more greenhouse gases, per passenger mile, as the average car. In fact, transit is less climate friendly than driving in all but a handful of cities. read more » »
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Trust the Science: The Blue State Surge is Real
by Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox 04/06/2021
For months the conventional wisdom among Democrats, amplified by their obliging claque in the media, was that lockdowns played an essential role in containing COVID-19. The great heroes, in addition to Anthony Fauci, were hardline governors like Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer, California’s Gavin Newsom and, most of all, New York’s Andrew Cuomo. read more » Understanding Major Metropolitan Domestic Migration
by Wendell Cox 04/05/2021
It has been clear for years that net domestic migration to and from major metropolitan areas (over 1 million population) has been characterized by moving out of costly areas, like Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area and New York to much less expensive areas, like Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Atlanta and Nashville. However, within these metropolitan areas, there are substantial variations. read more » »
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