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Mixing Oil and Water
Oil and water are increasingly scarce, crucial to Oregon’s economy, and are looming yet solvable issues. Illahee and partners from government, business and the community have put together a daylong symposium on Friday June 2nd, on Oil, Water and Oregon. http://www.illahee.org/symposium Our goal is to help businesses, policy makers and citizen leaders expand their understanding…
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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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Fine Wine and Car-bashing
We had a conversation here last week that kicked off with a quote from Metro President David Bragdon and developed into a series of analogies about cars, roads and congestion. This kind of stuff often gets us accused of car-bashing. So let me set the record straight. I like cars. My family of 3.5 drivers…
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Better at Cycling than Driving?
As reported in the Tribune, apparently drivers in our region have more accidents than our neighbors in Seattle. Maybe we don’t get enough practice? The article advances several other hypotheses.
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Public Opinion on Transit
On Friday, pollster Adam Davis spoke to City Club’s Friday Forum on the topic of the disconnect between leaders and the public (as he put it, between the edges of the bell curve and the bell). No, I didn’t ask him a transportation question – I asked about citizenship and the public “commons”. But Ray…