mbk

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Advice on urban affairs: The old is new again

Posted Wed, May 11, 10:49 p.m.

This time, just don't build communities where you have to have a car to get to any shop. Greenwood is one of Seattle's exceptions, and I envy friends who live there.

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Knocking schools: Do critics, big foundations have tunnel vision?

Posted Mon, Mar 7, 11 a.m.

Agree totally on the poverty issue, which is so obvious it splashed your eye. But there's another issue in the anti-schools, anti-teacher campaign that wasn't even mentioned in the 400 or so comments in the NYT when they ran an article like this. That is, hovering parents who never let ...

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Devastated D's should ask: What would Reagan do?

Posted Wed, Nov 3, 10:09 a.m.

I presume this author is at least 10 years younger than I am to wax nostalgic about the Reagan era. I was living abroad at the time and for me that was the 'point of no return' -- I still live outside the US. It was Reagan who sunk family ...

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