The Hudson Tunnel project is still shortchanged while rural areas manage to preserve services.
Cities & Communities
Posted inEconomic Policy
Company Towns Are Still with Us
And as unions’ difficulties in organizing auto plants make clear, where a company dominates the town, unionization is really hard.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Little Agency That Could Have Tamed the Military-Industrial Complex
The Pentagon’s Office of Economic Adjustment mostly missed its chance to wean communities off America’s dependence on defense economics.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Washington State Shifts into New Ways of Thinking About Welfare and Transportation
Travel woes for low-income people lead to pilot program that expands transportation access—and opportunities.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Amazon’s Race to the Bottom Puts Chicago Transit at Risk
Chicago’s massive Amazon HQ2 incentive package could hit the city’s transit budget hard.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Hello Digital First, Goodbye Boston Herald
The private equity company that won the bidding war for the bankrupt Herald is the most predatory of a rapacious lot.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Q&A: What Cities Can Do About the Gun Epidemic
A conversation with former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan: Fiction? Scam? Actually, Both
The plan’s not about building more. It’s about privatizing what’s already there.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Hudson River Tunnel Supporter Bites the Dust
Democrats do get excited over Republican retirements. As things stand now in New Jersey, full of people incensed by President Trump and recently departed GOP Governor Chris Christie, the 11th Congressional District, a longtime Republican stronghold, may turn blue in the fall. But for commuters and travelers wanting to get from New Jersey to New […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Infrastructure, Immigration, and Trump’s War on Cities
The president’s putative concern for America’s decaying infrastructure takes a back seat to his anti-immigrant demagoguery and anti-urban policies.
