Opponents Sue to Stew Onrush of Flashing Digital Billboards By Neal Peirce Hardly a DriverIs Now AliveWho Passed On HillsAt 75Burma-Shave Once upon a time, advertising in America was fun. As a boy, I didn’t want to miss the Burma Shave jingles – one line per sign …
Citiwire.net: Time to Enlist State Powers to Curb Deadliest Guns
Citiwire.net 27 December 2012 Welcome to Citiwire.net! We ring out 2012 with a duo of columns from two Citistates Group founders, Curtis Johnson and Neal Peirce. In the aftermath of the Newtown tragedy, Neal offers a strategy for enacting sensible gun restrictions, despite paralysis at the federal level: state action. …
Neal Peirce on States v. Guns and Curtis Johnson on Michigan’s New RTA
NEAL PEIRCE WASHINGTON – Now, in the wake of the Newtown massacre, is the time to blow the whistle on the gun industry. We have a proven formula. It’s the approach that curbed the tobacco industry and its life-imperiling products. Read more… Michigan’s Minor Miracle CURTIS JOHNSON Question: What recent …
Sharing – Not Ownership?
Citiwire.net 19 October 2012 “Welcome to Citiwire.net! This week both columns – from Neal Peirce and from former Ventura, Calif., Mayor Bill Fulton – challenge old assumptions. Neal describes how, led by young adults’ preference for sharing over ownership, bike- and car-sharing programs are mushrooming. And Bill makes the case …
Neal Peirce on Green Philadelphia, Edward T. McMahon on Density Development
Water Plan for the Century: Philadelphia’s Breakthrough By Neal Peirce Density Without High-Rises? By Edward T. McMahon For Release Sunday, May 20, 2012 (c) 2012 Washington Post Writers GroupWASHINGTON — Could it be serious — a major American city makes water conservation the linchpin of its 21st-century planning, the ticket …
Neal Peirce on the National Popular Vote, Mark Pisano on the Transition
The ‘National Popular Vote’ — Time At Last? NEAL PEIRCE / JAN 14 2012 © 2012 Washington Post Writers Group WASHINGTON — Newspapers, the airwaves and the blogosphere are already delivering 24-7 news and speculation focused on the 2012 presidential campaign. But in the end, will we get the president …
Can an Equity Agenda Spark Economic Growth?
Can an Equity Agenda Spark Economic Growth? By Neal Peirce For Release Sunday, November 20, 2011 (c) 2011 Washington Post Writers Group DETROIT — “We stand with Occupy Wall Street. We’re inspired by the organizing we’ve seen… It catches the moment.” But the group PolicyLink, meeting here last week with …
World Cities: Where to Put Their Oncoming Billions?
“Welcome to Citiwire.net! Will (must) the world’s cities grow dramatically in land form in the years ahead? It’s no longer very likely in the U.S. and Europe, but represents the all-but-inevitable scenario in the developing world as hundreds of millions of rural residents continue to pour into cities. A Lincoln …