UrbanThoreau Critiques: from Street to World and Back Again
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Victory for Black Earth Creek!
Black Earth Creek was just spared another subdivision assault on its water quality. YAAAAYYYY!!!!!
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Cul-de-sac Syndrome
Car dependent places crashed, while car-optional places held steady during the Great Recession.
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Willy Street Grocery Coop: Values, Sustainability, Community…Questions
Williamson Street Grocery Coop and its perennial parking “problem:” management’s solution will likely be worse than the problem itself.
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Flying and Green Guilt Indulgences
Carbon offsets: The Indulgences for the New Dark Age.
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Transit: The True Blue/Green Alliance
Transit is good for organized labor. Yet organized labor continues to militate against transit.
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Sustainable Sheep Herding
City of Madison dismisses public input toward a more sustainable community.
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Obama Has Failed the World on Climate Change
He can jet to Copenhagen to push for the Olympics, but He can’t be bothered to go there to save the atmosphere. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, our local liberal politicians follow His lead with paving budget after paving budget.….
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Union Corners v Kelo: On Eminent Domain, Liberty and a Movement to Buy the Site
Union Corners v. Kelo v. City of New London: a comparison & contrast.
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Obama Purges a Defender of our Constitution
Gregory B. Craig, the guy who wrote the policy to end CIA torture is purged by President Jesus H. Obama. The CIA didn’t like him, therefore, he must be purged.
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T. Wall’s Sprawl: Update on the Bishop’s Bay Paving, Shingling
Below are the latest updates from the Western Dane Coalition for Smart Growth and Environment (WDC/SGE). Thanks again to Stefi & Arnold Harris for all of their hard work and astute research toward protecting Dane County’s rural areas from sprawl! Pit bulls have nothin’ on them! Remember, the meeting is tonight, Thursday, November 12th at…
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