Month: August 2011

From Alternet: As presidential candidate Michele Bachmann chews up scenery in the GOP primaries, the mainstream media is finally digging into her extremist beliefs in a serious way. In a profile published earlier this week, the...

From Vancouver Sun: A study released last month that could have – and should have – nailed down the impacts of downtown Vancouver’s new bike lanes on the businesses that line the affected streets is, in fact,...

 Matthew Pepper didn’t have a dog’s chance of success at the Memphis Animal Shelter. As the new, improved head of the City of Memphis agency, he was under fire from the day he walked through the door.  He inherited an agency...

by Stateline:   Last month, three public libraries in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita ditched the L.A. County public library system, the biggest in the nation. To save money, they turned instead to a little-known...

From Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: PDF of this report (22pp.) By Robert Tannenwald, Jon Shure and Nicholas Johnson * August 4, 2011 Related Areas of Research State Budget and Tax Taxes Executive Summary Attacks on...

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For all of you who are passionate about inventive grassroots activities, there’s a publication that you’ll enjoy.  It’s Tactical Urbanism. It’s bound to get your creative juices flowing and spark ideas of...

By Michael Lewyn: After reading Rand McNally and numerous other “livable city” ratings, I decided to create my own. But this is a livable city guide with a difference: one that answers the simple question...