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A couple of years ago I flew former Portland Transportation Commissioner Charlie Hales to Tucson to talk to folks about the economic benefits of the Modern Streetcar and Light Rail. He talked a little about how Portland developers thought differently from those from other places.
“Most developers get up in the morning,” Charlie said, “and think, [...]
Payday loan operations prey on the poor and keep them in poverty. There’s no other way of looking at it. You know the places… they’re on almost every streetcorner on the southside, westside, and near Davis-Monthan, preying on working families and underpaid airmen who need a little help to get by until the next paycheck. [...]
Yep, folks sure love their cars in Phoenix. The freeway construction never seems to stop, no matter how high the smog rises. And the congestion never seems to stop, either.
But an interesting thing is happening in our sprawling metropolis to the north. People with cars are choosing to take the bus instead.
According to an [...]
I’ve served for the last seven months on the Citizens’ Advisory Committee of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), a body of 35 people from across the region, representing many different interests & backgrounds. All of us are dedicated to creating a regional transportation plan which can fix current problems, set a tone for the future, [...]
Most reasonable leaders from John McCain to Raul Grijalva now agree that global warming is a major threat to our environment and economy, and we need to act yesterday to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases at every level to avoid disaster. But President Bush announced this week at the G-8 summit that reducing greenhouse gases [...]
As a public artist, I get around the country quite a bit to see how other fast-growing communities are dealing with their growth and planning for the future. It is frustrating and disappointing to return home to my beloved Tucson and find most of our leaders — political and business — with their heads in [...]
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