From Atlantic Cities: The Armadillo World Headquarters in Austin, the Metropolis in Seattle, the Cog Factory in Omaha: all legendary music venues that fostered scenes later embraced by local leaders as catalysts for economic...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities: In almost every way in which we humans view the world, scale and context are crucially important. When we build a skyscraper, it’s impressive because it’s so much taller than what’s around it, or what’s...
Read MoreWhen you ask the people of San Diego what they want in a transportation system, the answer is usually balance. In a 2009 survey [PDF] by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California, 75 percent of San Diego residents...
Read MoreAll eight Tennessee members of the National Academy of Sciences — including a Nobel laureate — have signed a statement (PDF) expressing their firm opposition to House Bill 368 and Senate Bill 893. Both bills, if enacted, would...
Read MoreFrom Governing: It’s amazing — although depressingly unsurprising — how bad ideas are recycled time and again. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, almost two dozen states are considering...
Read MoreAmerica’s airline service is collapsing fast, and businesses across Heartland America are taking the brunt of the hit. A new article in the Washington Monthly by Phillip Longman and Lina Khan explains what’s...
Read MoreIn the week since House Republicans introduced their proposed transportation bill, one thing has become clear: It has virtually nothing to do with fiscal responsibility. The Tea Party soared to power on the notion that it was...
Read MoreFrom Atlantic Cities:Last year, I wrote an article setting out “a beginning agenda for making smart growth legal.” I asserted that some of our most beloved historic neighborhoods could not be built today, because...
Read MoreFrom Places: Caricature of Louis Curtiss, from As We See ‘Em: A Volume of Cartoons and Caricatures of Kansas Cityans, 1908. Midwestern Maybeck? Louis Curtiss’s Life (and Death) Outside the Canon How and why does an...
Read MoreFrom Wall Street Journal: One of the losses that modern society feels most keenly is the loss of a sense of community. We tend to imagine that there once existed a degree of neighborliness that has been replaced by ruthless...
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by Bill Day. Memphian Bill Day is two-time winner of the RFK Journalism Award in Cartooning. His cartoons are syndicated internationally by Cagle Cartoons. Cartoons Archive →