Taking the Initiative

We Need to Remember Our Multiplication Tables 2 Sep 2010, 9:32 pm

San Francisco — Five years ago not one but two calamitous floods struck major cities, each taking more than a thousand lives. One, of course, was Katrina, but only a month earlier, 37 inches struck the city of Mumbai, India,…

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Katrina, Five Years Later 31 Aug 2010, 6:25 pm

New Orleans — President Obama returned to New Orleans for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, to a region still reeling from the Macondo oil gusher and from Katrina’s legacy. The president reminded us that Katrina “was a natural disaster,…

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A New "American System"? 25 Aug 2010, 11:59 pm

Los Angeles — The City of the Angels may be about to give birth to a new version of the “American System” — the national-state-local transportation partnership that, for over a hundred years, helped propel America into global economic leadership….

Source: Taking the Initiative | Carl Pope