Atlanta ranked third in housing affordability, fourth for the most university graduates and fifth for venture capital. But it’s near the bottom in per capita personal income, per capita gross metropolitan product and job growth.
Austin ranked at or near the top in several categories. It has the highest percentage of university graduates, the lowest unemployment rate and the least loss of housing values in the downturn, plus it tied for the second-highest job growth. Its economy grew the fastest, 7 percent, from 2009 to 2010.
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By: Taylor Davidson
The Importance Of Our Thinkers
I will start by saying I do not know Phil Lopes.
However, he made a series of statements this last week (unusual in their clarity as examples) that I would like to address due to their implications regarding the level of discourse and understanding in our fair Pueblo.
In case you are not familiar, Mr. Lopes is a long time Arizona activist, a founding staff member of Pima Community College, a Read More
This little tidbit popped on my radar from San Francisco. Just wait until Tucson gets their 4 mile light rail project rolling.
Visitors to San Francisco’s main shopping district, Union Square, can’t help but see, smell and hear the massive construction project that could end with a visionary subway, or, as some critics are calling it, “a train to nowhere.”
Known as the Central Subway, it’s a rail extension less than two miles long, connecting outlying neighborhoods to Union Square and Chinatown.
Voters approved the project in 2003, to replace a freeway damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Back then, the cost was $647 million. Today, the price tag is $1.6 billion, with the lion’s share of the funding still to come from the federal government.
In Read More
Green candidate for mayor based in Occupy Tucson tent
By Brad Poole
TUCSON, Ariz | Sat Nov 5, 2011 9:53am EDT
(Reuters) – There is no bank of telephones at Mary DeCamp’s campaign headquarters, no volunteers eager to bring her message to the masses.
The Green Party candidate for mayor of Tucson, who is days away from losing her home to foreclosure, is flanked by fellow Occupy Tucson activists as she directs her long shot bid for public office from a borrowed tent in a local park.
“November 10th is my eviction date,” the aptly named Read More
“Breaking: California High-Speed Rail Boondoggle Now Officially Texas-Sized”
Bullet trains to nowhere. Unless your destination is, say, staggering waste and then, ultimately, bankruptcy.
In which case, all aboard! Nick Gillespie, Reason:
Three years ago, voters were sold a project that was gonna cost $43 billion, which now costs $66 billion in 2010 dollars, but the actual cost is gonna be $98.5 billion, if everything goes faster than Carl Douglas doing some kung-fu fighting and the whole system is up and running by 2033? Not to worry, though, because the very best people in the Read More
It’s been a tough time for the Tucson Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Budgets have been slashed, people let go and an audit last summer which was highly critical of the way it was performing.
Still, in the face of it all, Pima County gave the bureau $3 million to promote tourism. That’s only about 60% of what the county used to give, but that was before hard times.
The contract signed by the county also contains 24 benchmarks which the bureau must meet.
“I’m hopeful we’ll see some really interesting and dynamic changes in the bureau,” says District 3 supervisor Sharon Bronson.
Like the other supervisors who voted to approve the budget, Bronson is concerned.
One thing the audit pointed out, is that the Tucson Airport is lacking and one reason why Tucson is lagging far Read More
By: Taylor Davidson
As many know, effective October 1st AHCCCS (Arizona’s Medicaid program) made dramatic changes to benefits eligibility (we can argue the necessity of these measures but that’s not my purpose with this column). As a result of these changes a friend and client of mine recently received a notification that her two minor children would be losing their coverage and came to me several weeks ago as her agent to discuss options for replacing this insurance.
As recently as a few months ago I would have been able to help her with a policy for her kids that would have cost no more than tens of dollars Read More
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