Reforming discriminatory zoning laws and taking other steps to promote residential and school integration could have potentially large benefits to the nation's future by making educational opportunity more equal.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.19.2012
Tanya McDowell, a Connecticut mother, made headlines last year when she was accused of stealing -- specifically, of stealing an education for her son....
The Huffington Post | Posted 01.05.2012
WASHINGTON -- Remember last fall, when an Iraq war veteran named Mark Grapin battled the Fairfax County zoning board to keep a tree house he'd built f...
Virginia Simmons | Posted 01.16.2012
When Rick Buss left his position as city manager of Maricopa, Arizona, to become the town manager of a 2,000-person, economically struggling town called Gila Bend in 2008, some people who know him personally and professionally wondered why.
Art Brodsky | Posted 12.30.2011
Emory Church Road is the very definition of a rustic road. So of course Montgomery County wants to allow a 50,000 square-foot structure with a parking lot big enough for 200 cars right in the middle of the picture.
Greg Selkoe | Posted 06.11.2011
My name is Greg Selkoe and I am an entrepreneur. This is a phrase I am proud of and no matter what the activity, whether it was when I worked at City ...
Charles R. Wolfe | Posted 06.05.2011
What if a zoning code is no longer cohesive, or impedes rather than accomplishes societal goals? Let's remember to reassess -- with simplicity in mind -- and recall the first principles of shelter and the wheel.
Nick Rosen | Posted 05.25.2011
I get about 20 emails a week from people who want to go live "off the grid" without utility power and water, so I launched landbuddy.com -- a way people could pool skills and resources.
Amb. John Campbell | Posted 05.25.2011
The economic and social imbalance between the North and the South makes political power sharing in Nigeria a sensitive issue.
Dr. Philip Neches | Posted 05.25.2011
After surveying the neighborhood, it strikes me that the Islamic community center will be an improvement. If St. Peter's can co-exist with the New York Dolls, surely a center for exercise, culinary instruction, and religious devotion is not out of place.
Posted 05.25.2011
Representative Luis Gutierrez has been the center of a great deal of media attention as the national political debate has shifted to immigration refor...
Sean Paige | Posted 05.25.2011
We've obviously gone a little crazy. But how much crazier would things be if we didn't have the indelible ink on the Constitution as a touchstone?
AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 05.25.2011
PHOENIX — On Saturday mornings, crowds of homeless gather with other needy people at picnic tables outside a church in an upscale Phoenix neighb...
John Petro | Posted 05.25.2011
Mayor Bloomberg needs to acknowledge that residents require more than just minimum-wage employment to survive and thrive.
John Petro | Posted 05.25.2011
To reduce the country's excessive energy consumption, we need to make our new and existing suburbs more like cities. This means embracing the principles of smart growth and transit-oriented development.
Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011
How do we value urban land, and what are the existing laws on the books that keep urban agriculture from flourishing and feeding locals?
Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011
We need a vision that will excite businesses and alert them to where investments can be fruitfully made. A vision that exudes confidence about the future.
Peter A. Ubel | Posted 11.17.2011
With intelligent regulations, such as thoughtful neighborhood zoning, we can influence our ability and willingness to engage in healthy activities like biking and walking.
Nanette Lepore | Posted 05.25.2011
How ironic that given the current political focus on jobs, my biggest fear is that I will no longer be able to manufacture in America. The problem is real and local politicians seem indifferent.
Jonathan Rothwell | Posted 04.19.2012