I don't think everybody wants to move to Manhattan, but I have long believed that there was a shortage of good walkable communities based on the simple fact that such places, where they exist, tend to be very expensive. You know, nobody wants to live there it's too expensive!
...adding, big problem is that it's easier to create such communities by reshaping older suburbs around existing transit lines. The problem is that current residents of those places don't want them to be reshaped. That leaves gentrifying areas of urban blight, which is not without its problems including the fact that if you price poor mass transit-dependent people out of areas with mass transit, then what options do they have?
First Lady Laura Bush and President George W. Bush are moving back to Dallas when the president’s term expires in January, the Associated Press is reporting.
The AP says the first lady’s press secretary confirmed Wednesday that the couple are purchasing a home in Dallas.
The incoming Obama administration has notified all politically-appointed ambassadors that they must vacate their posts as of Jan. 20, the day President-elect Barack Obama takes the oath of office, a State Department official said.
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Political ambassadors sometimes are permitted to stay on briefly during a new administration, but the sweeping nature of the directive suggests that Obama has little interest in retaining any of Bush's ambassadorial appointees.
The ADP report comes out a couple of days before the official BLS one, and is designed to predict what the Feds will say. ADP says 250,000 jobs lost in Nov. I'll go with the over bet, as usual.
BAGHDAD — About 1,000 Asian men who were hired by a Kuwaiti subcontractor to the U.S. military have been confined for as long as three months in windowless warehouses near the Baghdad airport without money or a place to work.
A couple of weeks ago I was in a coffee shop listening to a group of late 40sish women chat. From their conversation, look, and general demeanor I'd guess they were all relatively well off stay at home moms, though of course I can't be sure of that. Their conversation turned to automobiles, and every one of them was talking about how they couldn't wait for the lease on their Mercedes (and similar) to be up so they could get a less expensive car.
From this we can conclude that aliens are conducting intergalactic war.
It's a rather obvious point which has already been made dozens of times, but when you look at all of the money our government has blown in the last several years, from Our Glorious Iraqi Adventure to bailing out every financial institution, and you start to think of how that money could have been used more productively, it gets a wee bit frustrating.
I know Very Serious People tell me that the $700 billion bailout won't really cost $700 billion because we'll get most of it back. Hah!
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