Monthly Archives: September 2004

BIG BUSINESS INSOURCING PUBLIC AFFAIRS?

September 27, 2004 – 10:02 am

CURT JOHNSON: In Boston last week, I ran into David Luberoff, who’s just been named to succeed Charles Euchner at Harvard’s Rappaport Center. Luberoff handed me a working paper entitled Civic Leadership and the Big Dig (PDF). My oxymoron meter must have flashed because he quickly said, “No, this is really worth looking at. It’s [...]

By Curtis Johnson | Posted in Commentary | Comments (0)

NO ROOM TO BOOM: HOUSE PRICES AND LAND SUPPLY

September 11, 2004 – 10:06 am

ROBERT LANG: Humorist Will Rogers once famously observed that people should buy land because “they don’t make it anymore.” That message resonates with home buyers in some of the nation’s most land constrained metropolitan areas. The National Association of Realtors’ house price data for 2004 shows price spikes in places where land supplies are short [...]

By Robert Lang | Posted in Smart Growth | Comments (0)

Schools: Radical New Truths

September 6, 2004 – 12:41 pm

NEAL PEIRCE. Is the charter school movement — or its equivalent — really an international one, based partly on rebellion against unionized school systems, partly on developing modern technology? The thought occurred to me after my recent column on how statistics dug out of federal sources by the American Federation of Teachers had seemed to [...]

By Neal Peirce | Posted in Education | Comments (0)