WalkScore.com is teaming up with Transportation for America to gather an online petition to support alternative transportation in the 2009 Transportation bill in Congress.
Transportation for America has a strong vision for national transportation policy: build world-class rail-based mass transit, repair and maintain the highways and bridges we have, and improve our health by [...]
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Support alternative transportation
Posted in all politics is local, bicycle friendly, cost of fuel, economy, energy policy, neighborhood, transportation policy, urban renewal, vision, tagged bicycling, transportation, transportation policy, walking, walkscore on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The path forward for energy policy
Posted in all politics is local, cost of fuel, economy, energy policy, tagged CFTC, commodities, futures trading, Michael Greenberger, NYMEX, speculation, West Texas Intermediate, WTI on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As several news reports have indicated, the notion is gaining steam that speculation in the U.S. commodities market has had an inflationary effect on oil prices. The current conventional wisdom is that 70% of the oil trades are made by financial players. If commodities speculation has taken center stage, the spotlight is on loopholes such as the notorious “Enron [...]
Failing Schools? Blame No Child Left Behind
Posted in all politics is local, schools, tagged education, NCLB, No Child Left Behind on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Politics seems to demand simple messages – slogans so simple everyone gets it and goes along with it. Such is the simplicity of “No Child Left Behind.” Who could disagree with that? No child left behind: no child allowed to fail.
But life cannot be reduced to mere slogan; nor can public education.
The premise of NCLB [...]
