Streaming Veracity

"Our school system was designed in the Nineteenth century to socialize immigrants and provide them..."

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:06 -0500

“Our school system was designed in the Nineteenth century to socialize immigrants and provide them with the skills they needed to work on production lines. It is badly broken – a giant creativity-squelching machine—and must be retooled from the bottom up, no more tinkering at the margins. Our schools should stoke their students’ passions, unleash their talents, and nurture their creative and entrepreneurial potential.”

- RICHARD FLORIDA: It’s Up To The Cities To Bring America Back

"Surveys have shown that controversies like Alaska’s infamous bridge to nowhere have left the public..."

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:00:06 -0500

“Surveys have shown that controversies like Alaska’s infamous bridge to nowhere have left the public so suspicious of transportation projects that most people resist appeals for more funding.”

- - The Washington Post

(via Grassroots Mapping: How You Can Create Aerial Cartography...

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:31:12 -0500

(via Grassroots Mapping: How You Can Create Aerial Cartography for Under $100, and Use It to Do Good - Environment - GOOD)

(via Indonesian Economy Booms, Its Infrastructure Groans :...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:19:06 -0500

(via Indonesian Economy Booms, Its Infrastructure Groans : NPR)

(via Colombian city gets giant, outdoor escalator - Yahoo! News)

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:01:05 -0500

(via Colombian city gets giant, outdoor escalator - Yahoo! News)

(via Alexander Garvin Looks at Public Spaces in New York -...

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:13:06 -0500

(via Alexander Garvin Looks at Public Spaces in New York - NYTimes.com)

(via The Value of Transportation Enhancements; Or, Are Walking...

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:12:05 -0500

(via The Value of Transportation Enhancements; Or, Are Walking and Cycling Really Transportation? | Planetizen)

Get the lead out: Clean air tied to decline in violent crime | Grist

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:00:06 -0400

Get the lead out: Clean air tied to decline in violent crime | Grist

(via Infographic: Railroad Mergers : CFIRE)

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:16:06 -0400

(via Infographic: Railroad Mergers : CFIRE)

"The problem for the [Indiana Toll Road’s] investors — and one that can potentially..."

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:27:05 -0400

“The problem for the [Indiana Toll Road’s] investors — and one that can potentially unravel similar deals — is the imprecise nature of traffic projections. They are, transportation officials admit, notoriously unreliable and more of an art form than a science.”

- The Indiana Toll Road: A Model for Privatization?

PAINTING REALITY - the official - (by IEPEart)

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:21:06 -0400

PAINTING REALITY - the official - (by IEPEart)

(via Mapping The Real State Of America | Fast Company)

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:00:05 -0400

(via Mapping The Real State Of America | Fast Company)

"On average, urban and intercity rail projects run over budget by 45 percent, roads by 20 percent,..."

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 16:00:05 -0400

“On average, urban and intercity rail projects run over budget by 45 percent, roads by 20 percent, and bridges and tunnels by 34 percent.”

- Too Many Public Works Built on Rosy Scenarios: Virginia Postrel - Bloomberg

"When it comes to the K-12 education system, we’re living in an age of brutal optimism about..."

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:00:05 -0400

“When it comes to the K-12 education system, we’re living in an age of brutal optimism about testing. Low test scores tell us nothing about a child, we’d like to think, but nearly everything about his school and teachers. Every child in America, after all, is supposed to reach “proficiency” in reading and math by spring 2014, at least according to No Child Left Behind. If any individual child fails, it won’t be because he is disabled, poor, hungry, homeless, can’t understand English, or maybe just isn’t that smart, but because he’s been failed by “the system”—those same bad-apple teachers and principals who cheat, or who are just too damn incompetent or lazy to teach their students.”

- Atlanta Cheating Scandal: How the teacher incentives in high-stakes testing situations lead to cheating outbreaks. - By Dana Goldstein - Slate Magazine

"Though the subsidy payments always ebbed and flowed with crop prices, many economists are convinced..."

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:06:06 -0400

“Though the subsidy payments always ebbed and flowed with crop prices, many economists are convinced that what is happening now is different. A fundamental upward shift in crop prices is creating the real possibility that Midwestern farmers won’t ever again qualify for the primary form of farm subsidy”

- Crop Prices Erode Farm Subsidy Program - WSJ.com

(via 1 Car = 10 Bicycles | TheCityFix)

Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:00:05 -0400

(via 1 Car = 10 Bicycles | TheCityFix)

3-Way Street (by ronconcocacola)

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:10:35 -0400

3-Way Street (by ronconcocacola)

(via Office Owners Seek to Cash In as Prices Boom - WSJ.com)

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 08:00:06 -0400

(via Office Owners Seek to Cash In as Prices Boom - WSJ.com)

"A key piece of the mayor’s economic strategy has been to make New York City a place people want to..."

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:00:06 -0400

“A key piece of the mayor’s economic strategy has been to make New York City a place people want to be and more than ever the city is the ideal location for any company, like UBS, that succeeds by attracting a talented, motivated work force.”

- New York City Deputy Mayor Robert K. Steel UBS May Move Back to Manhattan from Stamford - NYTimes.com

"Somehow it became conventional wisdom that the deficit, not unemployment, was Public Enemy No. 1 — a..."

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 16:00:06 -0400

“Somehow it became conventional wisdom that the deficit, not unemployment, was Public Enemy No. 1 — a conventional wisdom both reflected in and reinforced by a dramatic shift in news coverage away from unemployment and toward deficit concerns. Job creation effectively dropped off the agenda.”

- The Mistake of 2010 - NYTimes.com