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Today is International Toilet Day

…especially the links for school, urban, and slum toilet provisions, and then see this John Sauer piece at the Huffington Post, and check out the information at Sauer’s organization, Water

Iran and American Conservatives

by Cactus Iran and American Conservatives In Iran, protesters – a mostly young, college educated intellectual urban crowd – are getting their heads bashed in by the regime. Conservatives in…

Fiscal Responsibility Summit: Guest List

…Morial, National Urban League (NY) Dennis Van Roekel, NEA David Walker, Peter G. Peterson Foundation Peter Peterson, Peter G. Peterson Foundation Al From, Progressive Policy Institute Andy Stern, SEIU Fred…

Little things that count in standards of opportunity

…people. “Urban playgrounds in the United States have recently been shown to be a particularly rich source of Toxocara eggs and inner-city children are at high risk of acquiring the…

Voter Registration

Registration continues to surge, particularly in urban areas in swing states (also, “the huge gains have come in areas with minority and low-income populations”), which seems almost certain to be…

Not All News is Bad News

…other agencies to help process all the new registration forms. Nationwide figures aren’t yet available, but anecdotal evidence shows an upswing in many places, often urban but some rural. Some…

…original hypothesis from the earlier post, you would be able to tell the vote map from the housing value appreciation map because Blue counties come in two varieties: (a) urban