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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Sep 8th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Infrastructure, Governance, Economy | Region: Urban Nation, East Coast, Midwest | Cities: Milwaukee, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
Obama’s Laborfest Proposal: The president spoke to a crowd of union workers in Milwaukee on Monday to make the case for a new infrastructure-based stimulus bill. Urban Nation determines which parts of the speech were pure political posturing, and which were genuinely innovative public policy. (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Sep 3rd, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Governance, Economy | Region: Urban Nation, West Coast | Cities: San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
Representative George Miller, from California’s 7th district, introduced the Local Jobs for America Act to the House earlier this year. It’s a smart bill, but Vallejo, CA, a city in Miller’s district, makes things a bit more complex. (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Aug 31st, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Infrastructure, Governance, Built Environment | Region: Urban Nation | Cities: Urban Nation |
Bogotá faced serious transportation and planning issues—and still does—but one mayor invested in the city’s future, and got amazing results. What lessons can we learn from this? (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Aug 24th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Governance, Economy | Region: Urban Nation, Central, East Coast | Cities: Denver, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
HUD rolled out its Green Retrofit Program, which awards grants to multifamily subsidized and public housing for “greening” their building stock. In some ways, this program is a perfect example of how Stimulus spending ought to work. (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Aug 17th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Governance, Culture | Region: Urban Nation, East Coast | Cities: Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
Ray LaHood is “on a tear” about the issue of Distracted Driving. Is this a threat worthy of federal and media attention? Or does it reflect other fears we have? (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Aug 13th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Governance, Economy | Region: Urban Nation, East Coast, Midwest | Cities: Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
HUD will be rolling out a short refinance program for “underwater’ but current mortgages this Fall. To what extent does it actually guarantee help to responsible home buyers? (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Aug 11th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Infrastructure, Governance | Region: Urban Nation | Cities: Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
Libertarian think-tank The Reason Foundation released a report on how to keep the Highway Trust Fund solvent. Can you guess what’s on the chopping block? (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Aug 4th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Economy, Built Environment | Region: Urban Nation, East Coast | Cities: New York, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
HUD’s Know Your Neighbors day is not exactly what it sounds like, but that disconnect highlights one of public housing’s major shortcomings. (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Aug 2nd, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Governance, Built Environment | Region: Urban Nation, East Coast | Cities: Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
The Obama administration is making strides to reduce American energy consumption and create a more sustainable way forward, but will Congress ever help them? (
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Urban Nation | Willy Staley | Jul 28th, 2010 | Topic: Urban Nation, Governance | Region: Urban Nation, East Coast | Cities: New York, Washington, D.C., Urban Nation |
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions slashed funding for Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods Initiative from $210 million to a measly $60 million. What else costs the federal government a similar amount of money? (
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Obama’s Laborfest Proposal: The president spoke to a crowd of union workers in Milwaukee on Monday to make the case for a new infrastructure-based stimulus bill. Urban Nation determines which parts of the speech were pure political posturing, and which were genuinely innovative public policy. (keep reading…)
Bogotá faced serious transportation and planning issues—and still does—but one mayor invested in the city’s future, and got amazing results. What lessons can we learn from this? (keep reading…)
HUD’s Know Your Neighbors day is not exactly what it sounds like, but that disconnect highlights one of public housing’s major shortcomings. (keep reading…)
