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The Universal Charm of Spokes
Lincoln Street in Gardner Massachusetts is mid-way up the hill. Higher than the rows of worker housing that sit tight to the shuttered mill buildings below. Less elevated than the formerly grand mansions of the mill owners above. A solid … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycle, bike repair, Gardner MA, MBTA Commuter Rail, trains
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The Neutral Zone
This time of year the days and nights are even-handed, the temperature is benign, neither too warm nor too cool. A kind of balance that reminds me of a virtue in yoga that I discovered long ago. After a few … Continue reading
Gimme Shelter – 3
A Primer on Housing America In two previous posts I outlined a brief history of affordable housing in the United States and the current mechanisms for creating more. Still, the gap between the affordable housing supply and demand increases. Is … Continue reading
Gimme Shelter – 2
A Primer on Housing America Last week, I provided a brief, if somewhat snarly, history of affordable housing in the United States. Today, I offer an overview of the strategies and mechanisms available to create affordable housing today. Part Two: … Continue reading
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Tagged Affordable Housing, inclusionary zoning, public housing, Section 8, zoning, zoning reform
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Gimme Shelter
A Primer on Housing America A friend recently asked me how we create affordable housing in the United States. It seemed a simple query. Yet, like so many questions, the deeper I delved, the more complex and frustrating it became. … Continue reading
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Tagged Affordable Housing, Fair Housing Act, public housing, zoning, zoning reform
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History as Fact—and as Gap
Within a few moments of Clint Smith’s recent Harvard Radcliffe Institute Book Talk about How the Word is Passed, I was fully won over by the man and his message. Mr. Smith is a 33-year-old poet and scholar drenched in … Continue reading
Hope is a Discipline
“Hope is not an emotion…hope is not optimism.” – Mariame Kaba, We Do This ‘Til We Free Us “Optimism is a state of mind in which you are hopeful that things will turn out well.” – William J. Knaus, … Continue reading
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Tagged CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Haiti, Hope, Hope is a Discipline, Mariame Kaba
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One Night in Tallahassee
I embrace Universal Basic Income and envision the end of work as we know it “Look at you; look at what you’re doing. You’re engaged, you’re learning, you’re sharing. I think that’s useful. We don’t call it work because you’re … Continue reading
Nobody Wants to Work Anymore…a Tale of Three Cities’ Trash
“Nobody wants to work anymore.” I encounter the phrase every day. From retiree’s impatient for the waitress to take their order. From people complaining insufferable wait times to be connected to a customer service rep. In media reports of worker … Continue reading
Tower of e-Babel
Five thousand years ago, give or take a few centuries, the people of the earth, speaking in unified tongue, got together and decided to build a tower to reach the heavens (Genesis 11:1-9). God, ever wary of humans getting uppity, … Continue reading
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