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WATCH: Sober House Booted From Neighborhood

Sun Sentinel | HEATHER CARNEY | Posted 04.22.2013 | Miami

COOPER CITY -- Residents say they want cows and horses, not recovering addicts, to roam the ranches across from their neighborhood along Southwest 106...

Why Does San Francisco Hate The New Warriors Arena?

Aaron Sankin | Posted 09.13.2012 | San Francisco

If the Golden State Warriors are successful in their quest to play all of their home games in a shiny new area on the San Francisco waterfront, they'r...

North Beach Residents Fight Construction Of The 'Train To Nowhere'

Aaron Sankin | Posted 07.03.2012 | San Francisco

Over the last several weeks, merchants, politicos and community activists in North Beach have begun to loudly protest the detrimental effects the cons...

San Francisco Blasts Sonic Noises to Disperse Homeless

Joel John Roberts | Posted 07.11.2012 | San Francisco
Joel John Roberts

Most communities around the country are frustrated that very poor Americans are squatting on land. Not-In-My-Backyard has almost become a popular community anthem. But police sweeps and angry blogs are not very effective.

Is Posting Contact Info of Homeless Advocates Online Bullying?

Joel John Roberts | Posted 06.25.2012 | Impact
Joel John Roberts

Property owners created blogs, and listed the names, addresses, and phone numbers of community leaders who support homeless people's rights. If you are going to live on the streets, they say, go live near the people who advocate for you.

Neighborhood Fight Brewing Over The Future Of Coit Tower

Aaron Sankin | Posted 12.09.2011 | San Francisco

While the San Francisco Chronicle isn't all that impressed with the view from the top of Coit Tower, we'd have to disagree. The impressive panorama th...

Are You A MAMIL?

www.high50.com | Posted 12.14.2011 | Fifty

If anyone were looking for evidence that in the 21st century we are just as snobbish as ever we have been, then you only have to look at the acronyms ...

Bad Lawsuits Against Public Transit

Joel Epstein | Posted 11.29.2011 | Los Angeles
Joel Epstein

Here's an important story that may not have made it onto The Daily Show yet. While it is only a matter of time before Streetsblog Los Angeles has the...

Hey San Francisco, Why Don't You Like Live Music?

Conan Neutron | Posted 09.14.2011 | San Francisco
Conan Neutron

It's a common complaint among the creative class in World Class Cities, but here's the deal, I sometimes think there might be something there. Why is SF so indifferent to music?

Rejecting Century City Subway Station Adjacent

Joel Epstein | Posted 08.28.2011 | Los Angeles
Joel Epstein

Dear Beverly Hills: What were you thinking when you let your mayor write Metro basically threatening to pull the city's support for America Fast Forw...

Bait-Switch-Fix: The Westside Subway's Three Act Play

John Mirisch | Posted 08.15.2011 | Los Angeles
John Mirisch

The message of the press conference participants was clear: we want the Century City station on Constellation and we don't care if you have to tunnel under Beverly Hills High School to get there.

Tom Zeller Jr.

Wind Power Noise Dispute On Tranquil Maine Island Intensifies

HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 07.24.2011 | Green

While thousands of wind power enthusiasts and industry representatives gather in Anaheim Calif. for Windpower 2011, the American Wind Power Associatio...

Revolution, Democracy and the Subway in Beverly Hills

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Joel Epstein

As I ride the Metro 720 Rapid Bus along the washboard known as Wilshire Blvd. I think maybe, as hard as it would be, that it is time to get an office ...

Polls: Anti-Wind NIMBYs Are Small Minority

Brian Keane | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Brian Keane

The media frenzy over unhappy wind-turbine neighbors is downright irresponsible -- mainly because multiple studies show that wind turbine critics fall squarely in the minority.

Affordable Housing: An Oxymoron?

Joel John Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Joel John Roberts

If we truly see homelessness as a crisis, we would be instituting emergency rules that would temporarily breakdown bureaucratic barriers, overcome expensive rules and streamline the process.

Anti-Military Militancy Has Gotten Out of Hand

Sean Paige | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Sean Paige

Rampant NIMBYism is reaching new heights, literally, as residents of rural Colorado rise up in opposition to a proposed modest increase in the number of low-level military training flights.

Constellation Blvd Is the Best Choice for the Wilshire Subway Century City Station

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Joel Epstein

While it is unfortunate that the Beverly Hills City Council has now come out against the Constellation station location, we should remember that this was once a community that opposed the very idea of a subway.

Let's Get Real on Wind Turbine Noise

Brian Keane | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Brian Keane

Let's get this into perspective. Imagine you are standing in front of your dishwasher.

On the Waterfront: A New Park Rises in Brooklyn

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Joel Epstein

There's so much new public space in NY that even a tourist magnet as big as the City can afford to let the public know about some of its new gems.

Baby Dies in Oil Spill (VIDEO)

Tom Gregory | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Tom Gregory

The Gulf Oil Spill will change our world forever. BP, Government apathy, underfunded code enforcement, and a burgeoning oil-addicted population are ...

Fighting the Noise Wars -- One Blog at a Time

Jeremiah Moss | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Jeremiah Moss

In the East Village, bar "noise wars" have become epic smackdowns. For a decade at least, bar owners have had the upper hand. But the atmosphere began to change in the summer of 2009.

Fire Department Abandons Plan to House Inmate Firefighters At Malibu Station

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

The Los County Angeles Fire Department has scrapped a plan to use a fire station in Malibu as a temporary location to house inmate firefighters displa...

NIMBY Comes to China Revisited

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Happenings in the PRC this year echo phenomena seen in 2008.

Not in My Backyard: Fear of the Guantánamo Legion of Doom

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Warren Holstein

Yup, that's right, the self-same prison system that has held Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Son of Sam is apparently no match for a bunch of unarmed, sensory-deprived foreigners.

Many Renewable Projects Meet Local Opposition

wsj.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Even though Obama has approved tens of billions of dollars in direct grants, loans and loan guarantees for the renewable and transmission industries, ...