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In Spokane Washington this week a sophisticated bomb packed with shrapnel was planted in a backpack along the route of the city’s Martin Luther King Jr. parade. Fortunately the device was discovered and dismantled before anyone was injured or killed. Local white supremacist groups are being investigated in connection with the violence. White supremacist activity [...]
In the most comprehensive analysis of U.S. traffic congestion imaginable, the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University just released its 2010 Annual Urban Mobility Report. Due to considerable technological advancements, the Institute said this report provided “much better and more detailed picture of the problems facing urban travelers” than any previous reports and it has [...]
A new chap book by Tom Waits, called “Seeds on Hard Ground”, is being released this month to help raise money for homeless services and a food bank in the northern California county where Waits and his family live. All of the book’s proceeds are being donated to the Redwood Empire Food Bank, as well [...]
The price of free parking keeps going up. One cost is painful urban congestion, which is made worse bydrastically under-priced street parking. Another is a relative cost to the environment, which occurs when the near-certain prospect of free (or cheap) parking entices people into their cars and away from alternative forms of transportation. Recently a [...]
This bullet hole ridden billboard was in the city of Tucson for months advertising a right wing media personality. Threats of gun violence and assassination are overt in the advertisement, and Limbaugh is heralded as a bloody red “straight shooter”? WTF? Are attitudes of vicious brutality and implied violence what makes a good radio host? [...]
