July 2009
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A win for urban planning: Supermarkets potentially...
Walk through the streets of Newark, Jersey City, Camden, Paterson, Atlantic City, or even a smaller city like New Brunswick, and look for a supermarket. Surely, you will find an abundance of markets, but how about the modern, well-stocked supermarkets—where you can get nutritious food at fair prices—that are ubiquitous in the suburbs?
Rare. Your search will likely be a failure.
The...
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Innovation is now king, and it's perfectly...
Everything is looking up for innovation in America.
President Barack Obama, who holds the subject of urban issues “near and dear to [his] heart,” said during a White House urban affairs summit on Monday that he wants to “reinvent” our cities and formulate a “new, imaginative, bold vision” for federal urban policy.
The first in 30 years, the urban agenda will...
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A vote for The New Jersey Economic Stimulus Act of...
New Jersey is not coping with the current global recession too well, and according to a July 9, 2009 article in the Newark Star-Ledger, it is among the states with the most critical budget shortfalls:
The state had to dig itself out of a projected shortfall of nearly 30 percent, or $8.8 billion, before passing the 2010 budget last month. That was the seventh-biggest gap in the nation, after...
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Backyard chicken coops? Urban farming? There's a...
Don’t be alarmed if you start noticing a sudden influx of “victory gardens” or new feathered residents in your urban neighborhood. It’s all just a great consequence of the current economic downturn.
Even prior to the near economic apocalypse last fall, Americans were already in the process of going green, rallying around practices like eating organically and locally...