In urban America, the federal government is often a helping hand. A difference maker. In rural America, they are the kingmaker, the largest fish in a very small pond.
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Our urban fire departments need urban equipment.
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Engineers in Obetz have built a hamster wheel for walkers and cyclists.
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Today is Super Tuesday. It's also Taco Tuesday at Taco John's. Both will likely give you regrets and leave you feeling nauseous.
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Federal financing rules started out as a way to help people. They’ve now become a mechanism that exploits. There is more to be gained by ending these programs than continuing them.
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When the federal government decided it was going to enter the housing market in the 1930's, it put us on a path that has slowly transformed what it means to bootstrap. We tell ourselves that anyone in American can make it big, but yet the rate of business startups has declined dramatically and median household net worth is at 1960's levels.
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Eliminating arbitrary commercial caps -- or at least relaxing them -- along with some other modest changes to mitigate risk would expand opportunity and investment at no cost to taxpayers.
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It's time to turn our focus toward federal housing policy and the way it distorts the market. If you're frustrated about the lack of choice in housing, issues of affordability, gentrification and blight, you're going to want to pay attention.
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The city of Bismarck, ND is struggling with how to pay for miles and miles of unproductive transportation investments. The North Dakota Watchdog Network -- that has put forth ten questions they would like to see answered as part of this dialogue.
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America's pre-Depression development pattern relied on exploitation of workers, poor living conditions and exclusion of women and minorities from power in order to function. How is the Strong Towns approach, which advocates for traditional development patterns, different?
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Here in one commercial is everything that is wrong with our economy.
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While Memphis is home to many case studies on chaotic but smart development, it also has one of the poster childs for orderly but dumb, that of course being the Memphis pyramid.
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It's possible that large parts of Flint could be served with really high quality water for drinking and sanitation at a fraction of the cost while preserving the existing, lead-infested system for fire fighting purposes only.
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Let's not turn our backs on the wage earners of this country but actually try to understand why they are getting the worst deal of all from the Suburban Experiment.
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Concluding remarks and steps forward after a week of #NoNewRoads.
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Let's stop pretending we can do scalpel work on our neighborhoods with huge Washington budgets and bureaucracy.
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5 steps to tackle transportation funding insolvency.
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The Suburban Experiment creates an illusion of wealth early on, which makes it very seductive. As a city like Baxter, MN enters the second life cycle and all of the dispersed systems that came with the growth now need costly maintenance, the seductive illusion is slowly destroyed.
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A twisted look at the twisted federal transportation bill.
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It is one thing to have the freedom to drive; quite another to have no other option. America has long passed the point of diminishing returns with our approach to funding transportation. That is why this week we are focusing on #NoNewRoads.
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