ShareI’ve read a few of the posts lamenting the loss of urban issues (inner city problems as well as transportation and development issues) as the focus of the Congress and many state and local governments. As we are now almost two weeks past election day, what should we do? 1. Start drumming up support from [...]
Archive | November, 2010
On the Bus Chronicles: An Introduction
ShareI am very excited to have the opportunity to serve as a rider ambassador for the Piedmont Regional Transit Authority (PART), our local regional transit authority. What this means is that I will be working in a bus ride twice a week and also volunteering to work at a rider awareness event several times over [...]
Students Are Not Elitist or Ghetto, Why Do Housing Choices Assume Such
ShareLast night at one of our many grad student gatherings, we were teasing one of the girls for having to drive through the ghetto to get home. I was really cringing on the inside, because I feel like no neighborhood is the ghetto by default. There is rundown housing, drug drops and violent crime everywhere [...]
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