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  Brookings: U.S. Is Literally Falling Apart

  Jeffrey Hill | Sat, Jul 26th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: jeffrey hill, economy, education, energy, infrastructure, jobs, money, democrats, politicians, oil, katrina, mccain, research, minneapolis, traffic, virginia, budget, investment, brookings, brookings institute, trains, planning, broadband, tim kaine, manufacturing, communications, technology, fcc | 0

  Next American City’s Jeffrey Hill was on hand at The Brookings Institute’s Hamilton Project panel discussion last Friday, validating his predictions over the last few months over infrastructure. As Linda Richman would say - America’s infrastructure is neither “in” nor “structured,” discuss…

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  Economic Success Of Megaregions Depends On Infrastructure

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Jul 9th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Atlanta | Tags: jeffrey hill, transportation, news, obama, california, economy, growth, infrastructure, president, jobs, atlanta, metro, democrats, internet, china, 2008, florida, mccain, development, editorial, 1960s, cuts, investment, commerce, france, gas, birmingham, maria saporta | 5

  Maria Saporta’s editorial on economic global competitiveness and megaregions hones in on the most important issue for the future of southeastern U.S. cities - mobility. However, the rest of the world isn’t waiting for experts from the Piedmont-Atlantic megaregion to unite and find direction.

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• Indianapolis, A.K.A. Las Vegas East

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, Jun 11th, 2008 | City: Indianapolis | Tags: jeffrey hill, economy, jobs, casino, employment, lists, indiana live casino, indianapolis, indiana, gaming | 1

  What will a new casino provide the city of Indianapolis with, besides energy waste, an influx of poverty, hookers and an easy corporate state tax bail-out? Six-hundred-seventy jobs, a state of the art NASCAR sports grille and a dream to win it big.

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• The Daily Report

  Philly’s Number One! But Not in a Good Way…

  Diana Lind | Mon, Jun 9th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Philadelphia | Tags: philadelphia, new york city, economy, jobs, diana lind, money, budget, incarcarations, number one, prison, prisons | 0

  As Karen Heller writes today on Philly.com — Philadelphia leads the country in percentage of citizens incarcerated. Read on to find out why prisons are a booming industry, how many grams of cocaine you could fit in a sugar packet, and why keeping a prisoner in jail is about the cost of a year’s tuition at a fancy college.

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  The New Milwaukeeans: Making Sense of Population Growth in the Cream City

  Dave Steele | Mon, May 19th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, suburbs, downtown, growth, jobs, schools, immigration, population growth, census, populatioin, latino, cream city | 3

  After forty years in the statistical doldrums, what does Milwaukee make of a sudden, slight increase in population? Local expert and urban enthusiast Dave Steele reports.

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• The Daily Report

  Gas Tax Holiday: Boon or Bane?

  Evan Miller | Wed, Apr 30th, 2008 | Category: Guests | Tags: obama, clinton, republican, energy, infrastructure, cnn, evan miller, jobs, the new argument, money, construction, oil, highway, mccain, labor, hillary, taxes, average, nominee, christmas | 3

  As families prepare for summer road-trips, lawmakers are wondering if a proposed gas tax holiday will make it easier for travelers to make it out of the city without exhausting their funds for summer fun. The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports.

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  Sprawl in D.C. is Sputtering to a Stop

  Larry Martin | Mon, Apr 21st, 2008 | Category: Report | City: Washington, D.C. | Tags: transportation, news, suburbs, economy, growth, transit, jobs, mortgage, metro, 2008, washington dc, bus, larry martin, consumers, inflation, traffic, sprawl, gas prices, virginia | 0

  Sprawl in the Metro-DC area has all but stopped.  The deflating housing bubble, price inflation and the economic downturn accomplished (at least temporarily) what slow-growth advocates were achieving at best, very slowly.  However, with a growing economy the DC suburbs are reeling not only from the sub-prime mortgage bust; there are strong indications that the region’s residents are beginning to calculate the cost of transportation to and from work into their housing selection.

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