For Singles Suburbia Reigns
A new survey of home purchases by singles turned up something surprising for city watchers: 52 percent chose suburbs over urban or rural areas. The survey reveals a couple of other interesting tidbits...
View ArticleHigh Speed Rail Flops...in China?
Last week's news of blistering economic growth in China (11.9% for the first quarter 2010) overshadowed this tidbit gleaned from the tail end of a report in The New York Times (emphasis added):"Lending...
View ArticlePolicy Strategies for U.S. Surface Transportation Funding Reauthorization
Federal surface transportation policy is at a fateful crossroads. Since the completion of the Interstate system, the federal program has lost focus and a sense of purpose. The user-pays funding...
View ArticleGovernor Fights the Good Fight in New Jersey
An amazing story in the Wall Street Journal (April 17, 2010) chronicles how difficult it is to turn a state around. James Freeman interviewed Governor Chris Christie, who is making a valiant effort to...
View ArticleNetwork Neutrality's Impact on Smartphones
If you own a BlackBerry or other smartphone, try this experiment. Find a friend who owns an Apple iPhone and try out the same application, say Google Maps. On which device is it faster and easier to...
View ArticleHash Bash
On Saturday morning at the Cow Palace, a 15,000 seat indoor arena located just south of San Francisco, the nacho concession was surprisingly deserted. But it was early yet, and given the long line of...
View ArticleEarth Day Turns 40
Forty years ago this week, 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day celebration. It was the largest national demonstration ever, with events taking place on 2,000 college campuses,...
View ArticleBitTorrent Was a Bad Case from the Start
After reading over some of the postings from the few weeks and exchanging emails with Richard Bennett at Technology Liberation Front, I am coming to see how disastrous a decision it was for the FCC to...
View ArticleChina's Failed "High" Speed Rail - An Update
Yesterday, I reported on a New York Times story that said a high-speed rail service in China's Fujian province had failed due to competition from air. After querying this further with our contacts in...
View ArticleMake California's Programs Compete for Money
David Osborne, who helped lead the Clinton administration's "reinventing government task force," is author of the book Reinventing Government and a new Reason Foundation study on how to fix the...
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