Archive for November 2nd, 2008


A Desire Named Streetcars: Alan Drake Interview

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

A Desire Named Streetcars: Alan Drake Interview
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How should North Texas cities meet the public transportation needs of the near and distant future? This is an hour-long interview with engineer Alan Drake and Jay Kline, interim vice president of planning and development at Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART),. They both participated in a [...]

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Reversal of Fortune: The economic crisis from an economist’s perspective

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

By Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Prize-winning economist, professor at Columbia University
Showing how ideology, special-interest pressure, and sheer incompetence have left the U.S. economy on life support, the author puts forth a clear, commonsense plan to reverse the Bush-era follies and regain America’s economic sanity.
published by Vanity Fair, November 2008
When the American economy enters [...]

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