Cash prizes for bad corporate citizenship: When we incentivize anti-social behavior by big corporations, we get more of it Bloomberg Business has a behind-the-scenes post-mortem of the Great Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes, “Behind Amazon’s HQ2 Fiasco: Jeff
Jealous billionaires: The story behind Amazon’s HQ2 Read Post »
Educational attainment explains two-thirds of the variation in economic success among metropolitan areas. Each additional percentage point increase in the four-year college attainment rate increases metro per capita income by $1,500 We’re increasingly living in
Talent: The key to metro economic success Read Post »
What City Observatory this week 1. A massive regional transportation spending plan that does nothing for climate change. Portland’s leaders are in the process of crafting a $3 billion plus regional transportation package. One of
The Week Observed, January 31, 2020 Read Post »
Every year, the same story:Â We profess to care about climate change, but we’re driving more and greenhouse gas emissions are rising rapidly. Oregon is stuck in an endless loop of lofty rhetoric, distant goals,
With climate change, it’s always Groundhog’s Day Read Post »
Metro’s multi-billion dollar transportation package does nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Spending $3 billion reduces Portland’s transportation greenhouse gases by .05 percent This package costs nearly $40,000 per ton in reduced GHG emissions Metro
Climate Fail: Metro’s 2020 Transportation Package Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week Remembering Dr. King. We were reminded of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech about the pronounced tendency in public policy to prescribe socialism for the rich and rugged, free market
The Week Observed, January 24, 2020 Read Post »
