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Category Archives: Business & Economics
What About Rochester: Toward More Geographical Diversity in a New Year
One of the missions for Handbuilt is to get people to think outside the box. I got into this “career” field accidentally because I was curious about why things were done a certain way– badly, in my opinion- and it … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Economics, Culture, Urban Planning
Tagged austin, bay area, buffalo, coastal chauvinism, jersey city, new york, new york city, new york state, newark, paterson, rochester
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All Aboard, RTA 2020: The Business Case For Transit
I’m moving into the end of the year with an announcement about some exciting upcoming goings-on. RTA 2020: The Business Case For Transit will be a multifaceted initiative to study, analyze, and educate Southeast Michigan about the implications of a … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Economics, Public transit, Transit infrastructure, Urban Planning
Tagged DDOT, detroit department of transportation, macomb county, mdot, regional transit authority, RTA, SEMCOG, southeast michigan, southeast michigan area rapid transit, thehub, Those Macomb County Types
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Challenging The Automotive Paradigm in Reagan Democrat Country
I found out the other night that there are people in Macomb County who actually refer to the Gratiot FAST bus as the “Heroin Express.” Yea, it were 3am, and I couldn’t sleep. So I delved into a Facebook rabbit … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Economics, Public transit, Urban Planning
Tagged 8 mile, ballot initiative, classism, gratiot, leon drolet, macomb county, mark hackel, mass transit, property tax, public transit, racism, regional transit, regional transit authority, RTA, SEMCOG, SMART, transit, transit corridors, transit millage, xenophobia
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Justin Trudeau’s Carbon Tax Singlehandedly Killed Global Crude Oil Markets– And Alberta’s Future, Apparently
Yesterday morning, whilst on a stroll ’round the snowy neighborhood with the hounds, I listened to Laura Lynch on The Current. Lynch succeeded award-winning host and Windsorite Anna Maria Tremonti earlier this year on the daily show, which covers global … Continue reading
Mood: “It’s The Austerity, Stupid!” or, “Are We Ever Gonna Straight Up Call Out The Failings Of Neoliberal Economic Policy?”
Loneliness. Failures of civic engagement. A lacking sense of place. These are things that are often not discussed together. They’re certainly not typically at the forefront of conversations about free markets, though. So, I was pleasantly surprised to encounter the … Continue reading
Net Impact 19!
Thursday, Friday, and Saturday I had the opportunity to attend Net Impact 19 at the TCF Center. I sort of stumbled into the conference at the last minute having no idea was I was getting into, which is always convenient … Continue reading
Canada Trip III – Leaving Montreal
We leave Montreal today for Toronto, where we will begin the “extension” portion of our Canada program. Our Montreal trip took us to Publicis, a French-Canadian marketing, design, and communications agency that does work in Montreal and internationally; Voxco, a … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Economics, Canada, Cycling, Marketing, Urban Planning
Tagged anglophone, business, Canada, congestion, francophone, jeune chambre de commerce du quebec, marketing, mobility, montreal, multicultural marketing, publicis, quebec, quebecois, Toronto, urban growth, Urban planning, voxco
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Canada Trip I – Via Rail to Toronto
I’m in Montreal and Toronto this week for a program through Kogod. The topic is marketing in a cross-cultural setting, and it’s been the first class whose content I’ve actually really enjoyed. One article– definitely the most conceptually interesting I’ve … Continue reading
Liability in the Age of Easy, Profitable Destruction
Early on the morning of July 16th, 1945, in the middle of an uninhabited desert halfway between the remote cities of Alamogordo and Soccoro, New Mexico, the first atomic bomb was detonated. It was the culmination of six years of … Continue reading
Posted in Business & Economics, Capitalism, Culture
Tagged big oil, big pharma, big tobacco, business, ethics, fentanyl, finance, gun control, gun deaths, liability, litigation, opiates, opioid crisis, opioids, oxycodone, oxycontin, philosophy, purdue pharmaceutical, responsibility, war on coal
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When Capital Speaks Louder Than, Well, Human Rights
Much ado was made about the so-called “bathroom bills” in North Carolina. Remember that story? Complacent Republican governor Pat McCrory signed into law a Republican legislative bill, the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, that would effectively force transgender citizens … Continue reading