Urban America's 'Reconnaissance Mission for Progressive Politics'
Standing in opposition to the "declining ability of the American political order to deliver a steadily rising standard of living to the vast middle and working classes," says Thomas B, Edsall, are...
View ArticleHalf the Country Now Facing Drought
"Fully half of the mainland United States is now facing drier-than-usual conditions, with 15 percent of the country experiencing "extreme" to "exceptional" drought," reports Brad Plummer.Publication...
View ArticleCensus: More Americans Living in 'Poverty Areas'
"Poverty rates slowly climbed throughout much of the last decade and accelerated during the Great Recession.Publication Date: Tue, 07/01/2014
View ArticleNow Singing: Route 66 in New Mexico
"A line of 'rumble strips' were installed on a street betwen [sic] Alberquerque [sic] and Tijeras earlier this month. When motorists drive over the strips at the correct speed (45mph), metal plates...
View ArticleAlbuquerque Set to Update Comprehensive Plan, Zoning Code
Dan McKay reports on two large, impactful planning efforts newly underway in Albuquerque.Publication Date: Wed, 02/04/2015
View ArticleComing this Spring: Bikeshare Pilot Program in Albuquerque
"Albuquerque will join several major and regional U.S. cities like Phoenix, Denver and Austin that have bike share programs — the first known such initiative in New Mexico," reports Damon...
View ArticleStudy: Ancient Cities Grew Much Like Modern Cities
Building upon earlier research on the evolution of large-scale human settlements, a team from the Santa Fe Institute examined a range of archaeological data from ancient Mexican cities.Publication...
View ArticleThe Equity of Tiered Water Pricing
"In moving away from the idea that water should be cheap for everybody just because it is so essential to life, Santa Fe’s approach to water pricing offers lessons in how other parched cities can...
View ArticleGrant Funding Rewards Innovation in Community Engagement
"Five U.S. cities received great news this week from the Citi Foundation and Living Cities. Albuquerque, Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans and Seattle have been chosen to join City Accelerator, a $3...
View ArticleBritish-Backed Megadevelopment Slated for...Albuquerque
Not much is growing in New Mexico these days. With a historic drought hammering the state's farmers and a relatively anemic growth rate of only 0.1 percent in the past year in Albuquerque, a...
View ArticleFull-Scale 'SimCity' Will Be Tech Testing Ground
Sited in a desolate stretch of southern New Mexico, the CITE "SimCity" idea sprung from the drawing boards of Pegasus Global Holdings. The plan had been on hold since 2012, but is now back in the...
View Article10-Mile Bus Rapid Transit System Planned in Albuquerque
Dan McKay describes a proposal for a total overhaul of Route 66 through Albuquerque: "Buses would travel down the middle of Central Avenue as passengers wait under canopy-covered stations. On most...
View ArticleRestoring the First Cross Country Interstate in the Southern States*
[Updated 8/13/2015] Sarah Laskow writes about the Old Spanish Trail, completed in 1929 as "2,743 miles of brick, asphalt, concrete, and wooden plank, [crossing] the southernmost states from East to...
View ArticleEPA Causes Massive Spill, Discoloring a Colorado River
The Environmental Protection Agency was investigating a leak at the abandoned Gold King Mine in La Plata County (see Denver Post Publication Date: Fri, 08/07/2015
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The Case For and Against Red Light Cameras
"Generally speaking, red light cameras do an excellent job of reducing 'red-light related' crashes—the highly dangerous T-bone collisions that occur when a driver blows a red once other traffic has...
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On the Altered Landscapes of the Wildfire West
John Schwartz provides a dispatch from Cochiti Canyon in New Mexico, which evidences a new, tree-less landscape in the wake of a series of brutal fires in recent years.Publication Date: Mon, 09/21/2015
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How Rural Towns Succeeded in Keeping Amtrak's Southwest Chief Running
Jesse Paul reports that a "group of small, sleepy towns in Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico banded together in the past three years after Amtrak warned it might be forced to end the Chief's iconic...
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Big Transit Happenings Expected for the Sun Belt in 2016
Andrew Keets provides a snapshot of the Sun Belt cities expecting major transit upgrades in 2016. Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, El Paso, Dallas, New Orleans, Jacksonville, and Orlando make the list,...
View ArticleEnvironmental Protection Agency Under Fire From All Sides
"Under fierce attack from the political right, and with even some Democrats questioning its competence, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is facing a tumultuous Publication Date: Fri, 03/18/2016
View ArticleAlbuquerque Approves 10-Mile Bus Rapid Transit Project
According to an article by Dan McKay, "a noisy four-hour debate late Monday didn’t soften City Council support for the plan to transform Central Avenue into a rapid transit corridor with a nine-mile...
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