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  To Mandate or Encourge Smart Growth?

  Mike Muller | Fri, Feb 22nd, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: mike muller, hillary clinton, barack obama, legislation, public transportation, encourage, mandate, smart growth, score act of 2005, national infrastructure bank, american planning association, urban poverty | 1

  Smart growth is an expansive issue. It is, as defined by the American Planning Association, the integration—into every aspect of planning for development—the consideration of the effects of growth on our health, environment, communities, and financial sustainability, as well as its effect on equality.

  The two final Democratic candidates have certainly shown support for the principles of smart growth. They tuck it into their infrastructure, environment, energy, and poverty platforms.…

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  Hillary Clinton’s Plan to ‘Rebuild America’

  Mike Muller | Tue, Nov 6th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: mike muller, hillary clinton, democrat, national infrastructure bank, rebuild america, national infrastructure band, plan to rebuild america, national construction alliance | 0

  A “Silent Crisis”, An Increase in Infrastructure Funds, A Little Fib About Broadband, and An Infrastructure Bank
  

  The nation’s bridges, tunnels, and roads are facing a ”silent crisis,” said Hillary Clinton last August, in Rochester, New Hampshire. “It’s a crisis with the potential of not only death and injury, property loss and other kinds of dangers and inconveniences, but it is imperative that we address this crisis for our economy.”

  “Not only [the] bridge collapse in Minneapolis…

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