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America Hanging in There Better Than Rivals 26 Aug 2013 | 08:14 pm
Appearing in: Orange County Register To paraphrase the great polemicist Thomas Paine, these are times that try the souls of optimists. The country is shuffling through a very weak recovery, and pub....
California Homes Require Real Reach 20 Aug 2013 | 11:06 pm
Appearing in: Orange County Register In the 1950s and 1960s, Southern California was ground zero for the "American Dream" of owning a house. From tony Newport Beach and Bel-Air to the more middle-c....
Young Tech Tycoons Pushing Left Coast Ahead Of East In Democratic Power Structure 14 Aug 2013 | 07:41 am
Appearing in: Forbes There are two deep-blue regions that are critical to the Obama administration: the Northeast and the coastal region between San Jose and Seattle that truly deserves the moniker....
Entrepreneurs Turn Oligarchs 13 Aug 2013 | 01:47 am
Appearing in: Orange County Register For a generation, most Americans, whatever their politics, have largely admired Silicon Valley as an exemplar of enlightened free-market capitalism. Yet, increa....
How Can We Be So Dense? Anti-Sprawl Policies Threaten America's Future 9 Aug 2013 | 02:43 am
Appearing in: Forbes.com Among university professors, government planners and mainstream pundits there is little doubt that the best city is the densest one. This notion is also supported by a wide....
The Childless City 9 Aug 2013 | 02:33 am
Appearing in: The City Journal What is a city for? Ever since cities first emerged thousands of years ago, they have been places where families could congregate and flourish. The family hearth form....
California's Blue-on-Blue Battle 6 Aug 2013 | 02:42 am
Appearing in: Orange County Register Perhaps nothing more illustrates the evolving inner class conflict within the progressive political movement than the recent embrace of California as a role mod....
America's Engineering Hubs: The Cities With The Greatest Capacity For Innovation 1 Aug 2013 | 12:01 am
Appearing in: Forbes.com America has always been a nation of tinkerers. Our Founding Fathers, notes author Alec Foege, were innovators in areas ranging from agriculture (George Washington, Thomas J....
Aspirational Cities: U.S. Cities That Offer Both Jobs and Culture Are Mostly Southern and Modest Sized 30 Jul 2013 | 11:55 pm
Appearing in: The Daily Beast A city at its best, wrote the philosopher René Descartes, provides “an inventory of the possible.” The city Descartes had in mind was 17th-century Amsterdam, which for....
America's Emerging Housing Crisis 26 Jul 2013 | 11:37 pm
Appearing in: Forbes.com The current housing recovery may be like manna to homeowners, but it may do little to ease a growing shortage of affordable residences, and could even make it worse. After ....
