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Newsom Vows to Fast Track Toward Germany's Failed Climate Goals
Governor Newsom announced on Friday September 11th that he is about to take one giant step toward following Germany’s failed climate goals which should be a wake-up all for governments everywhere. Like...
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The Challenge of Revitalizing Urban Boulevards
One of the toughest challenges in real estate is revitalizing urban boulevards. There are dozens of plans for remaking these, but very few of these plans have actually sparked much private investment...
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San Jose: Largest % Migration Loss Outside New Orleans
This article expands on the 2000 to 2019 state net domestic migration data from last week, covering the 110 metropolitan areas with more than 500,000 residents (Note). The big surprise may be that the...
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Blue Today, Bluer Tomorrow
The long-rising blue tide that has colored American politics and values may have crested, but it could still have enough momentum to make it through the election year. Even if Trump is somehow...
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Florida in the Election
Former mayor Mike Bloomberg has announced that he would spend as much as $100 million of his own money to help Vice-President Biden prevail in Florida on Election Day. This underscores once again the...
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This is the Great Reshuffling
The Interwebs are abuzz over the mass exodus from cities triggered by the coronavirus. Cue up the images of Moses parting the sea for a caravan of U-Hauls destined for the verdant cul-de-sacs of the...
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CSY Repost: The Community and Economic Development Hierarchy
I've spent many, many years of my career working to improve the economic development prospects of communities. Wanting to make a meaningful, positive contribution to the revitalization of cities is...
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Transport Policy in the Age of Coronavirus
“The coronavirus pandemic is going to leave behind major changes in America’s transportation system, and those changes, in turn, call for changes in transportation policies today,” I stated in a paper...
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Newsom Promotes California to Be the Vintage Car Capital
We have all seen the photos from Cuba with all their vintage cars from the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s. Well, those photos from Cuba may be a prelude to what California will look like in the decades ahead.The...
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The Pre-Pandemic Rise of Working from Home (Telework) and Beyond
The 2019 market share data has just been released by the American Community Survey. Looking at driving alone and transit market shares, there has been virtually no change since 2010, with driving alone...
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A Law and Order Platform to Unite Working-Class Voters
Donald Trump has positioned himself as the “law and order” president, because the term provides a positive framing for the racially-tinged rhetoric he uses to divide members of the white working and...
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Americans Won't Live in the Pod
“No Bourgeois, No Democracy” – Barrington MooreProtecting and fighting for the middle class regularly dominates rhetoric on the Right and Left. Yet activists on both sides now often seek to undermine...
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An "Ecotopian" Future: Can California's Green Extremism Go National?
They paved paradise...And put up a parking lot...With a pink hotel, a boutique...And a swinging hot spot...Don't it always seem to go...That you don't know what you've got ‘til it's gone -- Joni...
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Missing Middle Housing — Book Review
“Missing Middle Housing – Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis” by Daniel ParolekBook Review by Adam MayerCalifornia State Senate Bill 1120 (SB 1120), a bill that...
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Blade Runner Meets Old Testament
I took these photos at midday as I went about my usual chores. The forest fires that have been burning across California sent ash over San Francisco turning the sky a freakish shade of orange. Birds...
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Efficiency and Effectiveness in Ohio Townships
For decades, political interests and academics have proposed measures to require consolidation of local governments under the assumption that “bigger-is-better,” and that larger governments are...
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The Coronavirus Reopened America's Wounds — and Poured Salt in Them
Yes, the coronavirus hit the president and his White House hard, likely because of the irresponsible choices this president has made, but let’s not kid ourselves: The virus has devastated with alarming...
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Congress Extends Pork Another Year
In a move that will surprise no one at all, Congress has extended federal funding for highways and public transit until September 30, 2021. Such federal funding was set to end on September 30, 2020,...
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Poor City, Rich Suburb: A Defining Characteristic of the Rust Belt
We all know that for decades the suburbia narrative was one of homogenized, sprawled and insulated wealth separated from diverse, dense and isolated poverty. We also know that's changed dramatically...
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Ramifications of California Governor Newsom Ban on Gas-Powered Vehicles
Before sky diving, you need to plan ahead by having a parachute before you jump. California Governor Newsom’s recent suicidal jump onto the EV train has a minimum of eight (8) lack-of-a-plan...
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