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“Bike Lanes Are Against My Morals,” Says Ohio Woman

February 9, 2022February 9, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bexley, bexley ohio, bike, bike lanes, columbus, columbus ohio, livability, ohio, protected bike lanes, retrofitting the suburbs, roads, sharrow, sharrows, street, streets, suburban sprawl, suburbs, the profoundly disappointing gesturalism of the sharrow, walkability

The economics of parking are simple. Convincing community members, though? Sometimes not so much.

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Public Health Government

The Real Cost Of A COVID Test? It Depends.

January 3, 2022January 3, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments abbott binax, abbott rapid test, city of detroit, cobo center, coronavirus, covid, covid-19, COVID19, detroit documenters, kayleigh lickliter, mike duggan, nCoV19, omicron, outlier media, pcr, pcr test, polymerase chain reaction, public health, rapid pcr test, rapid test, rapid testing, tcf center, test, test site, test sites

In a city whose government has aggressively and continually underfunded public transit, human services, and infrastructure, it can sometimes prove

Public Health

“It Is What It Is”: With Omicron Rampant, Will Trump Country Notice?

December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 5g chips, anti-vax, anti-vaxxers, baby-eating democrats, coronavirus, covid, COVID19, Donald Trump, friedman unit, greg gianforte, is there lizard DNA in the vaccine, lizard DNA, macomb county, omicron, omicron variant, pandemic, qanon, rural, rural healthcare, rural hospitals, rural icu beds, sean hannity, trump, trump voters, tucker carlson

The novel coronavirus hit cities hard at the beginning of the pandemic. But in 2021, it is disproportionately killing rural Americans– closely along party lines. Will the rapid spread of the novel omicron variant make this trend even worse?

Book Reviews Policy Public Safety Movements & Organizing

Book Review: Rise of the Warrior Cop, by Radley Balko

November 29, 2021November 29, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 1999 wto protests, black lives matter, book review, book reviews, broken windows policing, community policing, daryl gates, first amendment, fourth amendment, gun control, gun nuts, gun violence, guns, jeff sessions, norm stamper, philadelphia, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police militarization, protesters, protests, radley balko, rise of the warrior cop, seattle, second amendment, swat, swat team, traffic stops, traffic violence

A new book looks at the militarization of police forces in the United States, how it costs taxpayers a staggering amount of money, threatens American democracy, and, above all else, doesn’t actually do much to reduce crime.

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Urban Planning Policy Housing

Those People: NIMBYism in America’s 17th-Wealthiest County

November 15, 2021November 15, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments Accessory dwelling unit, ADU, bethesda, bethesda maryland, DC, Density, district of columbia, euclidean zoning, form-based code, housing, housing shortage, montgomery county maryland, upzoning, use-based code, warshington dc, Washington DC, why is housing so expensive in dc, Zoning, zoning classification, zoning codes, zoning reform

If you, like me, are a part-time transplant resident of the District of Columbia– and are a policy nerd, no

Mobility Public Safety

“We’ve Got A Delegation, Bro”: Exemptions to DC Law, If You’ve Got The Money

November 12, 2021November 12, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments cadillac, Cadillac Escalade, cager, cagers, car culture, cars, cycling, cycling infrastructure, cycling safety, dc pedestrian fatalities, dc vision zero, driver, drivers, escalade, four seasons hotel dc, four seasons total landscaping, general motors, georgetown, georgetown dc, pedestrian safety, safe streets, sidewalks, suv, suvs, vision zero, vision zero dc, walkability, walking

Car culture sucks. Even in the nation’s capital, where the city doesn’t seem able to prevent cars from parking all over sidewalks, at bus stops, and its drivers from telling you that they’re allowed to, because.

Detroit Politics

Mike Duggan’s Legacy of Austerity, Corporate Power, and State Violence

November 1, 2021November 2, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments albert cobo, arthur jemison, black lives matter, black lives matter protest, black lives matter protests, BSEED, coleman young, DDOT, dennis archer, Detroit, detroit 2021 election, detroit department of transportation, detroit mayor mike duggan, detroit politics, detroit proposal r, detroit proposal s, detroit towing scandal, gaspar fiore, housing and revitalization department, james craig, jed howbert, jerome kavanagh, kwame kilpatrick, mayoral election detroit, mike duggan, mikel oglesby, politics, related, related companies, ryan friedrichs, stephen ross, tear gas

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is inevitably coasting to an easy reëlection tomorrow. His legacy is a complex and a fraught one– that deserves a lot of critical scrutiny, in spite of the big moves that the city has made in the past decade.

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MDOT: Rebrand And Replace. Some Ideas From The MAP Conference.

October 28, 2021October 28, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments aicp, ambassador bridge, american planning association, auto industry, automotive, car culture, cars, chrysler, dan gilbert, dan gilbert industrial complex, EGLE, f150 super duty state of mind, Ford, ford motor company, fossil fuel subsidies, fossil fuels, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, highways, land of the rising f150 super duty, mami, MAP, matty moroun, MDEQ, mdot, MEDC, MEGA tax breaks, michigan, michigan association of planning, mike duggan, moroun, public transit, rick snyder, road, stellantis, transit, vehicle miles traveled, vmt, vmt reduction, wendy rampson

Nat is attending the Michigan Association of Planning’s annual conference. It’s going great– especially with regard to figuring out new ways to refashion state agencies that aren’t doing their jobs.