For Release Sunday, March 14, 2010 © 2010 Washington Post Writers Group Should the Census count inmates as residents of the prisons where they’re held — often hundreds of miles from home? Or should they be tallied as citizens of the cities or counties they came from? An agreement just reached between the U.S. Census [...]
February 28, 2010 – 3:12 pm
For Release Sunday, February 28, 2010 © 2010 Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON — Nicknaming a federal grant-in-aid program TIGER may seem an anomaly: federal disbursements, normally loaded with rules, regulations and complexity, rarely get called bold or ferocious. But the government’s historic knee-jerk preference for roads gets a nip–maybe a deep bite–in the Transportation [...]
February 28, 2010 – 3:12 pm
For Release Sunday, February 28, 2010 Citiwire.net A little more than a dozen years ago, a collection of three adjacent suburban towns in the sprawling Sun Belt region of Charlotte did something extraordinary. After months of public workshops, lectures and community discussions, months of looking at slide shows to choose what kinds of streets, stores, [...]
February 20, 2010 – 1:26 pm
For Release Sunday, February 21, 2010 © 2010 Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON — The tea party crowd has it dead wrong. We don’t need smaller government, we need smarter government that can look ahead, saving us crises and billions of dollars in the process. A prime example: this winter’s record-breaking snow storms that left [...]
February 20, 2010 – 1:26 pm
For Release Saturday, February 20, 2010 Citiwire.net “Drought, extreme weather events, catastrophic wildfires, disruption of natural systems” –combined with “longer periods when streams are dry, with serious consequences for wildlife, natural habitats, and water supplies.” That’s the scenario for my region of America in a provocative recent Lincoln Institute of Land Policy report, “Planning for [...]
February 13, 2010 – 7:30 am
For Release Sunday, February 14, 2010 © 2010 Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON — For America’s cities and regions, this seems the worst of times. But take a look at their partnership with the federal government. It’s a rapid turn for the better. Check virtually any local budget and the dark side slams you in [...]
February 13, 2010 – 7:30 am
For Release Saturday, February 13, 2010 Citiwire.net SEATTLE — Members of President Obama’s “green cabinet” were greeted like rock stars by nearly two-thousand believers in a more sustainable future at the New Partners for Smart Growth conference earlier this month. We know this in part because Washington, D.C. city planner Harriet Tregoning–who introduced Shaun Donovan, [...]
February 1, 2010 – 9:54 am
For Release Monday, February 1, 2010 Citiwire.net An Indianapolis-area ex-CEO of a hospital group called me the other day — not about health care policy, but rather regional planning in central Indiana. He wasn’t interested in some way to force unified regional government — to expand the geographic scope of Indianapolis’ Unigov system, which Dick [...]
January 25, 2010 – 12:36 pm
For Release Sunday, January 24, 2010 © 2010 Washington Post Writers Group “This may be the most calamitous fiscal year states have known in decades,” reports Rob Gurwitt in Governing magazine, the 23-year old bible on coverage of state and local governance across the continent. And the coming fiscal year, experts are predicting, may be [...]
January 25, 2010 – 12:36 pm
For Release Sunday, January 25, 2010 Citiwire.net It may be in bad timing when the Republican Party is now in the ascent and so protective of Ronald Reagan’s legacy to argue that Washington National Airport should remove the former president’s name, but that is exactly what I suggest. The reason is not to slam Reagan, [...]
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