There is a certain happiness sighted when your bus comes along. It is of course a small specialized form of happiness and will never be a great thing.

-Richard Brautigan, The Old Bus

Friday, September 19, 2008

Regime change: What's in it for cities?

Neal Peirce, over at CitiWire.net, asks the question, "McCain Versus Obama: Who’s Best for Cities?" It's really no contest:

My short analysis: With Obama, we’re likely to get an activist federal government in areas from transit and infrastructure to housing. But it won’t be the Democrats’ historic center-city “urban policy.” Instead, Obama’s looking for ways to shift and coordinate federal programs to help boost the fortunes of entire metro regions.

Read the full article at citiwire.net/post/211/

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