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A Global Wake Up Call for Middle America
Dave Steele | Thu, Apr 10th, 2008 | Category: Reviews | City: Chicago | Tags: dave steele, transportation, milwaukee, detroit, economy, infrastructure, chicago, labor, midwest, 1970s, richard longworth | 1
Richard Longworth wants you to know two things: First, globalization is happening and it will continue to change the world. Second, if you live in the Midwest, you’d better be very afraid about your region’s chances of competing in an increasingly “flat” world.
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A Bronze Fonz? A Revealing Tussle over Public Art in Milwaukee
Dave Steele | Wed, Mar 26th, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, downtown, tourism, chicago, art, 1970s, public art, beer, fonzie, picasso, tv characters | 8
An uproar over a statue of the 1970s TV icon says more about its city than any piece of public art could.
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Rent controlled: How Grandma Pays the Blitzkrieg Rent
Jeffrey Hill | Fri, Dec 28th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, new york city, 1970s, 1960s, war emergency tenant protection act, metcouncil.net, rent control, cato institute | 4
It’s every angry teenager’s dream to move to New York City. Watching Annie Hall, listening to the Ramones, buying a cordoruy suit ... it’s all about romance until they pick up a free Apartment shopper’s guide and find out that it costs an average of 2000 dollars to rent a closet with bad wiring and a malfunctioning water heater. What happened to the dream of living shoulder-to-shoulder with America’s undiscovered twenty-somethings? What about all those movies where shaggy-haired poets…
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