…it contributing to urban sprawl? 11) What is the opportunity cost to government? The total amount of state and local subsidies is more than enough to hire every public-sector worker…

…combine urban, suburban and rural voters within a compact district. If Democrats controlled the process, they could draw pretty much whatever they wanted to draw. It is just who controls…

Urban Legend— You write: That claim that one-third of Medicare spending is wasted sounds pretty questionable to me.” This is your opinion. If you had spent the last 20 years…

…well as rural carriers, city carriers, and clerks. The postal network is a basic public and social good that has helped communities, both urban and rural, thrive. It is a…

…table. Christie and his ilk live in a fantasy land where everyone just magically pulls on their bootstraps and dreams come true. —- Urban Legend/ October 24, 2014 3:26 pm…

…First, public housing was segregated, purposely, by the federal government, so that what were previously somewhat integrated neighborhoods in urban areas were separated into separate black and white public housing…

…the industrial sector where wages are higher. But as a society matures and the agricultural sector shrinks, the gap between urban and rural workers should decline, and inequality fall. The…

…the distinction was problematic. For large parts of the country — certainly rural areas but also many lower income suburban and urban areas — the presence, accessibility, and affordability of…

…Reader Urban Legend asked me in the comments to this thread to provide a link to what I’m referring to. Here’s what I’m referring to: “I have looked at the…

…evolve from the outside in as Big Insurance retreated to serving high margin/richer urban markets. Now of course we don’t have the Public Option. But even so I am not…