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Earl on Smart City
Our own cycling congressman, Earl Blumenaur, was a guest on the Smart City radio program/podcast this week, giving his livability stump speech in the run-up to Rail-Volution. Check it out.
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Culture Trumps Policy
By now you all know I’m a fan of the Smart City radio show (via podcast). I really enjoyed last week’s episode for all of its segments. The first guest was Louis Glazer, an economic development professional from Michigan who pointed out that you can no longer have a high prosperity economy based on factories.…
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Preaching Smart Growth … in Texas?
That’s right, the mayor of Austin was on Smart City last week (MP3, 23.8M) talking about their success with compact development and energy conservation. George Bush lived there while he was Governor, right?
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Oregon’s Next Governor?
Our project to get the candidates for Governor to respond to our questionnaire has gone nowhere. Apparently the campaigns get deluged with these things. Only the Westlund campaign was forthright enough to tell us straight up that they weren’t going to respond. But here’s an opportunity for a little insight. At the Westside Economic Alliance…
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Local Boy Makes Good: Flexcar on Smart City
Our own Steve Gutmann, a past Portland Transport contributor (now on to fame in national sales for Flexcar), is one of the guests on this week’s Smart City radio program. In fact, this week’s episode has a lot of Portland content, clearly influenced by Carol’s trip here last month. Joe Cortright is also a guest,…