Why Cities Have More People but Less Clout Cities have always gotten less than their share from states. As they ve become wealthier and more Democratic, they ve come increasingly under attack. Alan Greenblatt, Senior Staff Writer | February 19, 2021 | Analysis
Gun violence is on the rise in Philadelphia. In January, homicides jumped by a third over the same month in 2020, which itself had been the deadliest in three decades. Non-fatal shootings increased last month by 71 percent.
City officials, wanting to address the issue, have repeatedly come up with gun control measures they believe will save lives. Their efforts, however, have gone nowhere. Pennsylvania, along with more than 40 other states, blocks localities from passing their own firearms regulations.
Letting Cities and Regions Lead Infrastructure Investment
Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research recently published A Bottom-Up Infrastructure Strategy for American Renewal. February 19, 2021, 8am PST | James Brasuell |
The Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research worked with former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros to publish a new report charting a path for bottom-up infrastructure investment for post-pandemic recovery.
The report surveys infrastructure priorities in 100 metropolitan areas and 134 cities across the country to 1,800 high-priority infrastructure projects (shown in an interactive map). Of that total, transportation, public facilities, water and wastewater, energy projects and communications projects appear most frequently on the list.
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A line of Metro busses are staged outside the George R. Brown Convention Center to transport people seeking shelter from the frigid temperatures to a shelter Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021 in Houston. Temperatures stayed below freezing Tuesday, with many still without power. The GRB is being used as a warming shelter, but it is filled to capacity, forcing the need for additional shelters around the city.Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
Two days ago, almost nobody in Texas had heard of ERCOT, the public-private entity that operates the state’s electrical grid. Now everybody is Texas is mad at ERCOT. Local utilities like CenterPoint are trying to explain why the problems in the ERCOT electrical grid weren’t their fault, and politicians are pointing fingers at each other; but ordinary people are just huddling close
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Some of San Diego’s most celebrated bayfront destinations Seaport Village and the Coronado Ferry Landing are governed by an unfamiliar entity with power that, in 2021, will prove more consequential than ever.
Formed by the state in 1962, the San Diego Unified Port District spans 34 miles of coastline from Shelter Island to the border. The land was granted to the agency to hold on behalf of the public; it includes tidelands in San Diego, National City, Chula Vista, Imperial Beach and Coronado. It’s a self-funded, non-taxing entity governed by a board of seven commissioners who are appointed by their member cities.