How we embrace socialism for car storage in the public right of way Florida Senator Marco Rubio has denounced President Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending program as un-American socialism. Rubio claims: In the end, Americans will
Where we embrace socialism in the US: Parking Lots Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week Freeway-widening grifters: Woke-washing, fraud and incompetence. The Oregon Department of Transportation has been trying to sell its $1.25 billion freeway widening project as a way of restoring the historically
The Week Observed, September 24, 2021 Read Post »
The Oregon Department of Transportation’s glossy mailer to sell its $1.25 billion I-5 Rose Quarter Freeway widening project is a cynical, error-ridden marketing ploy. ODOT doesn’t show or tell about its wider freeway and more
Freeway-widening grifters: Woke-washing, fraud and incompetence Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week The cost of Oregon DOT’s Rose Quarter project has nearly tripled to $1.25 billion. Just four years ago, the Oregon Department of transportation sold its mile-and-a-half long I-5 freeway
The Week Observed, September 17, 2021 Read Post »
It now looks like Oregon DOT’s I-5 Rose Quarter $450 million freeway widening project will cost more than $1.25 billion The project’s estimated cost has nearly tripled in just four years, and still has further
Another exploding whale: ODOT’s freeway widening cost triples Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week Talkin’ ’bout my gentrification.  Jerusalem Demsas of Vox has a thoughtful synthesis of what we know about gentrification.  If we’re concerned about poverty and inequality, gentrification is far from the biggest
The Week Observed, September 10, 2021 Read Post »
