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A New 'Metropolitics' -- Are We Ready? »
by Neal Pierce, Washington Post, June 29, 2008
The time may be ripe for a new metropolitics, a radical new "deal" between the federal government and America's metropolitan regions.
Villaraigosa urges the presidential candidates to reinvigorate federal anti-poverty programs. »
By Phil Willon, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer , June 23, 2008
Addressing the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami, he calls on the next president to raise funding for preschool programs and offer additional low-income tax credits.
America's Metro Areas: Carbon Leaders and Laggards »
Neal Pierce, Washington Post, June 1, 2008
We need a massive re-evaluation -- federal, state, and metrowide -- to reinvent our energy future and rein in America's cumulative, massive carbon footprint.
Stranded in Suburbia »
by Paul Krugman, New York Times, May 19, 2008
With rising oil prices leaving many Americans stranded in suburbia, it’s starting to look as if Berlin, a city of trains, buses and bikes, had the better idea.
A Real Holiday? »
Washington Post / Newsweek, April 28, 2008
The idea of a gasoline tax holiday might make good politics, but it surely doesn't seem like good policy. Most economists will say that it would be bad energy policy, bad tax policy, bad urban policy and bad climate policy. And gas prices won't fall much in the end, anyway.
Candidates must stop ignoring cities »
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 28, 2008
Scranton Mayor Chris Doherty and Reading Mayor Thomas McMahon, write: "...although we supported different Democratic candidates in the Pennsylvania primary, we are firmly united in our commitment to ensure that all the presidential candidates address a topic critical to the future of our state and our country: America's cities."
Like Urban Renewal, Only Backward »
Metropolis Magazine, April 23, 2008
America’s mayors are in a unique position to help rebuild our blighted federal government.
Pony up for better transit »
Christian Science Monitor, April 21, 2008
Fixing US roads and bridges requires market solutions and more gas-tax dollars.
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