By admin | March 25, 2009
In 2005, as the homicide rate in Philadelphia rose frighteningly, the Street administration had an idea. It would take the highly reputed Youth Violence Reduction Partnership, a program that closely monitors youths age 15 to 24 at high risk of “killing or being killed,” and adapt it to a younger group. The new program would [...]
By admin | March 23, 2009
From Next American City:
After 9/11, you could practically hear the wails coming from regional tourism offices across the country. Fliers’ fears of being on the next hijacked plane ground air travel to a halt, left hotels vacant, and short-circuited the tourism agenda of nearly every city in the country. You’d be hard pressed to find [...]
By admin | March 11, 2009
The second installment of my urban economics column (I’m going to stop prefacing these):
Economics has long been known as the dismal science, a field that bears only bad news. But to others it’s known as the useless science that bears no news at all. There’s a tension between economists and other academics who think economics [...]