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The Jewish Dilemma
Es iz schwer tzu sein a yid. It is hard to be a Jew. ~Sholem AleichemWhen Britain’s Jews go to the polls next week, they do so at an uncomfortable moment. For the first time in at least a half century,...
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California High-Speed Rail Leadership and Project Direction Being Challenged
The Assembly Transportation Committee High Speed Rail oversight hearing of Tuesday (11-12-2019) exposed a regional funding war.The project’s leadership, Brian Kelly (CEO) and Board Chair Lenny...
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Suburbia and the Black Experience
A couple weeks ago I was privileged to be the guest speaker at a wonderful event. The Cultural Inclusion and Diversity Committee of the Village of Hanover Park, a northwest suburb of Chicago, asked me...
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Distribution of Transit Work Trips: Urban Core vs. Suburbs and Exurbs
Transit work trip ridership is strongly concentrated in the urban cores of the nation’s 53 major metropolitan areas (over 1,000,000 population), as is indicated by City Sector Model (Note). In the two...
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Report: California Getting In Its Own Way
Although Governor Gavin Newsom promised to deliver 3.5 million new housing units in eight years, California severely missed this mark: as reported by the Public Policy Institute of California, housing...
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The Next Election Will Be Decided By the Suburbs
The fate of the 2020 election, whether for Congress or the White House, will be decided in the suburbs. Neither the pro-Trump countryside nor the intensely anti-Trump urban core have enough voters to...
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Third World Countries Remain the Losers of Climate Change Activism
For the poorest in the world there are more things that are far more important to survival than climate change. Third world countries are the big losers of today’s climate activism. Why? Because they...
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Costs Up, Ridership Down: 2018 National Transit Database
Taxpayers spent nearly $3.75 billion more subsidizing transit in 2018 than the year before, yet transit carried 215 million fewer riders, according to the latest data released by the Federal Transit...
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Social Media is Not Promoting a Diversity of Ideas: Just Look at Our College...
Despite statements by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg that he was changing the mission of his company to “bring the world closer together,” data from the recent AEI survey on Community and...
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Revealed Preferences: The 30-Minute Commute
The principal reason that large cities have developed is that they provide large labor (and housing) markets. A labor market is also a housing market, since virtually all who work in the metropolitan...
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Afterburn
Here in California we’ve just received our first rain since last winter after another brutal round of massive forest fires. Our Mediterranean style climate cycles from a long dry hot period to a few...
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California Preening: Golden State on Path to High-Tech Feudalism
“We are the modern equivalent of the ancient city-states of Athens and Sparta. California has the ideas of Athens and the power of Sparta,” declared then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2007. “Not...
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California's Low-wage Jobs Crisis
Media, the political class and policy wonks have identified the “housing crisis” as California’s existential challenge.Yet, in reality, more critical may be a “jobs crisis” that is condemning ever more...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs Drive Main Street's Growth
In cities and towns in all reaches of America, businesses started by immigrants are critical pieces of the fabric of our economy and communities.My children attend a Montessori preschool started by an...
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Amplified Advantage: Why Education is Not the Answer to Our Class Problems
Thirty years ago, after having dropped out of college after just one term, unable to pay for my dorm room, I was unsure if I would ever leave the working class. Two years later I was a student at...
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A Walk Around Jersey City’s Exchange Place
More than a quarter century ago, Joel Garreau’s classic Edge City; Life on the New Frontier described the rise of commercial centers outside the historic downtowns (central business districts or CBDs)....
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How Trump Can Win Again
By all rights, Donald Trump should be packing his bags and headed to the golf links and his favorite fast food restaurant. Never popular, he has done little to expand his base over the past three...
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Detroit: Rebranding, Resilience, and Redemption
Detroit may have found something that could figure prominently in the city's long-term rebound.Earlier this week I found this video, featuring the Detroit Academy of Arts and Sciences Choir and...
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Is America About to Suffer Its Weimar Moment?
Is America about to suffer its Weimar moment, culminating in the collapse of its republican institutions? Our democracy may be far more rooted than that of Germany’s first republic, which fell in 1933...
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Walking Around Downtown Brooklyn
After having lost more than half a million residents between 1950 and 1980 New York’s borough of Brooklyn has regained more than two-thirds of its population loss. The renaissance of Brooklyn is...
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