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URBAN JOURNAL: Schools and the city
In our letters section last week, Greece resident Murray Stahl objected to my recent comments about suburban sprawl's impact on Midtown Plaza.... Read More
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URBAN JOURNAL | Which Ren Square do you want?
If you've been a critic of Ren Square - and I certainly have been - it's time to make a tough decision: would you rather have it with the big theat... Read More
POLITICS: The presidential race shouldn't be this close
On November 5, we'll know whether young people - who so enthusiastically dug in at the grassroots level and worked the labor-intensive primary cauc... Read More
URBAN JOURNAL: If not Ren Square, what?
At picnics, at parties, at concerts over this summer, I've gotten an earful about Ren Square.Much of the talk has been the usual stuff: speculation... Read More
URBAN JOURNAL: The community of ... whatever
This didn't have to happen. Midtown Plaza could have remained the vibrant retail and community center that it once was. We just didn't want it to.T... Read More
URBAN JOURNAL | Republicans collaborating? In a pig's eye
We've been promised a New Era of Collaboration. But this just feels like a new version of the Good Cop, Bad Cop era, with Maggie Brooks still the G... Read More
URBAN JOURNAL: Crime, rights, and Zero Tolerance
When City Hall launched Zero Tolerance back in the fall, I was skeptical. But we've had 17 murders this year, compared to 27 for the same period la... Read More
URBAN JOURNAL: Maggie's big move
You could have knocked a lot of Republicans and Democrats over with a feather last week: our own Boss Minarik, booted by County Exec Maggie Brooks.... Read More
URBAN JOURNAL: Ren Square worries
I don't want to keep dumping on Renaissance Square. But things seem to happen with this project by default, and that's not good.We started out with... Read More
URBAN JOURNAL: Gas pains
You could work yourself into a frenzy thinking about the damage Bush and Cheney could do between now and mid-January. And I don't put anything past... Read More
POLITICS: The electronic media hijacked the nomination
The November 2008 general election is supposed to be a referendum on the tragic eight years of the Bush-Cheney Administration, meaning nothing less... Read More
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