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• NAC News

  Next American City Issue 19 Preview!

  Jeffrey Hill | Wed, May 28th, 2008 | Category: NAC News | City: NAC News | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, philadelphia, detroit, building, homeless, brooklyn, katrina, research, taxpayers, events, next american city, schools, issue 19, issue preview, next issue, summer issue | 0

  Our new issue hits shelves on June 1 - just a few days away! Issue 19, “The New School,” features stories on New Oreleans’ Charity Hospital, Co-op schools in Brooklyn, Demolition in Detroit, Homelessness in L.A., Escalators in Philadelphia and much more! Also, interviews with Wendy Walters, Jake Dobkin and David Wilson. Here’s a little preview of what’s to come!

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• The Daily Report

  Results of Seattle’s Test of Automatic Toilets Underwhelming

  Evan Miller | Tue, May 20th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Seattle | Tags: environment, seattle, evan miller, homeless, the new argument, money, alley, taxpayers, paris, luxury, crack, restaurants, parks, toilet | 0

  A test gone awry brings the end to a trial contract between the city of Seattle and a German manufacturer of high-tech automatic toilets. But is such an abrupt end to a pilot program designed to quell public urination and defecation necessary? Surely these silver self-cleaning cylindrical facilities were not the boon the city was expecting, but were they really the bane? The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports.

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• The Daily Report

  Immigrants Face Discrimination, Abusive Fair Housing Policy In Nebraska

  Brentin Mock | Mon, May 5th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: legislation, taxpayers, laws, protests, immigration, hispanic, illegal immigrants, jon bruning, fair housing, nebraska, discrimination, landlord, brentin mock | 1

  Immigration and its alleged illegal status is posing legal challenges for states and cities all over the country. For Nebraska, a state experiencing just a moderate level of Hispanic immigration inflow, Attorney General Jon Bruning has drawn the line on who he’ll protect and who he won’t. For him, immigrants simply aren’t financially worth protecting.

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• Columnists

  Solving Civic Problems in a Post-Fact Society

  Dave Steele | Thu, Apr 24th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Milwaukee | Tags: dave steele, environment, milwaukee, infrastructure, taxpayers, pollution, sewerage, talk radio | 8

  In an age when facts don’t matter, how do cities build the consensus to make big plans? In a public sphere heavily influenced by talk radio and other media outlets, such as local blogs, where there is no clear line between fact and opinion, where outright falsehoods are presented as legitimate opinions, the billons of dollars in investment in Milwaukee’s Deep Tunnel are now deemed a massive waste. 

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• The Daily Report

  The Green List - Milk, Eggs, Bread, Fluorescent bulbs, Hybrid Cars…

  Jeffrey Hill | Sat, Apr 12th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | Tags: jeffrey hill, environment, suburbs, energy, green, sustainability, money, politicians, taxpayers, produce, consumers, connecticut, going green, green shopping, leed | 1

  Shopping green is good for businesses, political groups, builders, car companies, and oh, the environment. Knocking on doors and pressuring citizens to buy compact fluorescent bulbs and other marked products does not show concern or respect for our environment. It implies that people who cannot afford consumer goods are bad for the planet.

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• Headlines

  Hospitals’ suburban push, fundamentalist children, blue-collar hybrids, more

  Meredith Aska McBride | Thu, Apr 10th, 2008 | Category: Headlines | City: Headlines | Tags: transportation, headlines, downtown, construction, boston, china, oil, police, taxpayers, consumers, chinese, new york times, olympics, hybrids, sect | 0

  Hospitals’ stir fears, sect youths conditioned to deceive outsiders, Olympic torch relay switches route and more in today’s headlines.

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• Columnists

  Is Bus Transit Hopeless?

  Dave Steele | Thu, Dec 6th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | Tags: dave steele, milwaukee, taxpayers, bus, mass transit, school bus, hopeless, loser-mobile, county officials, congress for new urbanism | 0

  

  It’s hard to think of a vehicle more maligned in Milwaukee than the city bus. Back in high school, when my friends and I depended on it to get to school and work, we nicknamed it the “green limousine,” an ironic take on the green and white color scheme that the Milwaukee County Transit System used, from the teal stripe once painted along the side and front of every bus, to the olive green uniform once worn by every bus driver. Yes, I had no doubt back in those days that buses were not…

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