I’ll expand on this later but in the meantime, there is a public forum today at the Eagle Point Lodge on the future of planning in the City of Clinton. There will be a number of breakout sessions and members of the public are encouraged to attend. Begins at 4:30. More in the Herald....
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Move over abortion and gay rights, there’s a new divisive kid on the block. Public opinion on the status of marijuana as a Schedule I drug — drugs that have “no pharmaceutical value” and are illegal to manufacture or possess — is moving quickly towards relaxing that standard. California (naturally) has been out in...
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There’s a new web site called, Walk Score that gives your neighborhood a “walkability index” based on how many shops, restauants and other amenities are within walking distance. Kind of neat. My neighborhood scores 57 out of 100, Somewhat Walkable. There are some questions regarding the quality of the mapping data they are relying...
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The idea here at re-burbia is to repair the poor use of space by strip-mall and fast-food architecture with infill buildings and repurpose the original building. We were discussing in a meeting last week the fact that Clinton (like many small towns) after encouraging so much non-downtown development along the highway now has much,...
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You: You heartless bastard! What about the jobs? Me: Chrysler employs 60,000 people. That’s a rounding error in the total number of jobs lost since the current downturn started. GM employs 240,000 globally, approximately 98,000 U.S. Again, compared to the 2.5 million lost jobs since October, 2008 those aren’t particularly meaningful figures from a...
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