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2018 Commute Data
The Census Bureau released data from the 2018 American Community Survey last week, and the big news is its finding that income inequality has worsened. America's transit agencies contributed to that...
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Younger Americans Don't Hate Suburbia
As a college professor who teaches courses about politics and geography at an extremely progressive liberal arts college, my students regularly want to talk about the narratives surrounding deep...
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Of Niche Markets and Broad Markets: Commuting in the US
The six transit legacy cities - mostly urban cores that grew largely before the advent of the automobile - increased their concentration of transit work trips to 57.9% of the national transit...
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Defending Assisted Living As a Long Term Care Option
Chances are at some point in your life you have been turned off by a discourteous hotel receptionist, an indifferent server at a restaurant, or a poorly trained salesperson at a clothing store. As a...
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Elites Against Western Civilization
The intellectual class across the West—encompassing its universities, media, and arts—is striving to dismantle the values that paced its ascendancy. Europe, the source of Western civilization, now...
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Can California Win the New Space Race?
California may have gotten its global allure from the Gold Rush and the movies, but it’s planes, missiles and now drones and spaceships that have underpinned the state’s industrial emergence.Today,...
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The Old Can Share the Wealth, or the Young Will Take It From Them
The next great political civil wars won’t be over race, the nation-state, religion or even class. They will be generational, pitching the Boomers, who still dominate the global economy, against their...
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Stop Overlooking the Richness of Rural Life
From questions of upward mobility and opportunity to concerns about access to health care and education, rural America clearly isn’t perfect. But while many tout the virtues of cities vis-à-vis the...
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American Cities and Others Moving to Ban Natural Gas and Repeat Germany's...
American cities such as Berkeley, San Jose, San Francisco, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Albuquerque, and other U.S. cities are moving to ban natural gas as a step toward becoming carbon free in...
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Down Payment Takes Half a Century in Vancouver: Report
As a recently released Organization for International Cooperation and Development (OECD) noted, house prices have been generally rising far in excess of incomes in a number of nations (Under Pressure:...
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Middle Class Racism
What do you picture when someone refers to the “Trump’s base”? If you’ve watched television coverage of his rallies or read any of the dozens of articles in which reporters and commentators try to...
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Dreaming of an America Where Solutions Trump Ideology
In the ever-intensifying battle between red and blue, the consultants, fixers and self-serving media thrive, but America suffers.Now we seem destined to face a graphic battle of extremes between Donald...
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The Progressive Era That Doomed Detroit
About a month ago, I came across a paper via Twitter in which the authors, Michael Hankinson of the City University of New York and Asya Magazinnik of MIT, studied the impact of at-large and district...
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Los Angeles County Approves Plan to Sunset the California Economy - OpEd
A California Regional Sustainability Plan for the 88 cities of Los Angeles County to be carbon neutral by 2050 includes a sunset to the oil and gas industry. That 220-page plan will also sunset the 5th...
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On the State of Illinois
Although there is a perception by some that the state of Illinois is in decline, the reality might not be quite so bad, at least at the moment. Estimates indicate that the population of Illinois has...
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Even Before the Blackouts, Most Californians Considered Leaving
For virtually all of its history from statehood in 1850 to 2000, California was a magnet drawing households from the rest of the United States for better lives. Indeed, in a nation that had its...
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Defending Assisted Living As a Long Term Care Option
Chances are at some point in your life you have been turned off by a discourteous hotel receptionist, an indifferent server at a restaurant, or a poorly trained salesperson at a clothing store. As a...
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China's Looming Class Struggle
Westerners tend to identify China’s coming political crisis with developments such as the brave, educated, and often English-speaking protests in Hong Kong. Although they undoubtably pose an annoyance...
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Media Meltdowns and Political Polarization
The mainstream media increasing appears much like the classic tale of the boy who cried wolf so often that when the wolf showed up no one believed him.Similarly, since the bust of the Mueller report,...
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Energy to Synergy: the Policy Plight of Resource-Dependent Cities
The Green New Deal, an ambitious US congressional resolution introduced in 2019 that met substantial political pushback and failed to gain official approval, proposed among other things to provide...
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