Remote work has become a huge topic of conversation in the business and political world since the pandemic shutdowns. The shift to remote that the pandemic response precipitated has upended many of the conventions of how business is done in the United States. read more »
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Career Considerations for Remote Work
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How Not to Revitalize Downtown
The city of Portland announced yesterday that it received a $2 million federal grant to get it to ban gasoline (and, presumably, Diesel) delivery vehicles in a sixteen-block area of downtown Portland. read more »
Ninth Circuit Spikes Berkeley's Gas Ban
Three federal court judges just rescued your gas stove and other gas-fired appliances from the nanny state. read more »
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Wisconsin Town Fights Big Solar
When I arrived at the Christiana Town Hall yesterday afternoon, Mark A. Cook, the town chairman, and two local landowners, John Barnes, and Roxann Engelstad, were ready and waiting. read more »
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The Future of Cities: Next Generation Suburbs
Whether hundreds of years ago or today, the far-reaching environmental impacts of urbanization are because cities are “a node of pure consumption existing parasitically on an extensive external resource base.” read more »
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Savior of the City of Angels
The death last week of former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan is a reminder of both how low the city’s political culture has sunk and how strong leaders can help turn around a seemingly hopeless situation. read more »
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Class Ceilings
Most of us have stopped believing in the myth of the meritocracy. The myth promises that the ablest or most intelligent or hardest working get ahead of the rest. read more »
The Inhumanity of the Green Agenda
‘Man is the measure of all things’, Greek philosopher Protagoras wrote over 2,500 years ago. Unfortunately, our elites today tend not to see it that way.
In recent years, the overused word ‘sustainability’ has fostered a narrative in which human needs and aspirations have taken a back seat to the green austerity of Net Zero and ‘degrowth’. read more »
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The Nation Needs Newsom vs. DeSantis
For all the tumult of today, we as a nation are merely dithering around the edges of the most critical question of our times – do we stop or go? read more »
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Things Are Different Downtown
We are entering a new urban epoch, with the potential to disrupt city life in ways not unlike that created in the shift from an industrial to what Jean Gottman described in 1983 as the “transactional city.” read more »