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Is COVID C-OV-er? In the US, maybe. There’s a Big “But.”

April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments bolsonaro, cardi b coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus vaccine, coronavirus variants, covid, covid variants, covid19 variants, grim milestone, grim milestones, india, jair bolsonaro, modi, modi india, narendra modi, nCoV19, public health

The COVID vaccine rollout in the US is, at long last, coming together. COVID vaccine rates in other countries are struggling as a product of inadequate supply and inadequate infrastructure. Addressing this is vital as a matter of global economic stability, if not basic humanitarianism.

Policy Sustainability

Is It Time For A National Trash Presort Policy?

April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments composting, garbage, garbage collection, landfill gas, landfill gas capture, landfills, methane, municipal composting, municipal recycling, municipal solid waste, municipal waste, presort garbage, presorting trash, recycling, recycling rate, recycling rates, solid waste, solid waste recycling, sorting trash, trash, trash collection, trash disposal, trash presort

Is municipal solid waste a question of infrastructure? Probably. Is trash presort an option to make it work better? Also probably.

Energy Efficiency Policy Energy Utilities

“Electrification Is Not Enough For Decarbonization” – Consumers Energy

April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments building decarbonization, carbon transition, decarbonization, demand response, demand-response, distributed generation, electrical grid, electrification, energy efficiency, energy policy, energy transition, energy waste reduction, EWR, Gretchen Whitmer, just transition, michigan, michigan public service commission, MPSC, photovoltaics, policies, policy, pv, rooftop solar, solar panels, state of michigan, utilities, utility, utility infrastructure, utility policy

A new workgroup seeks to address some questions about the future of infrastructure in a state that continues to lag in regulatory and technical innovation.

Policy Energy Infrastructure

Biden Infrastructure Plan: What All Is Included?

April 2, 2021April 2, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments anna clark, biden administration, biden infrastructure bill, biden infrastructure plan, biden transportation policy, bridges, broadband internet, civilian climate corps, department of transportation, federal budget, federal deficit, federal spending, gretchen bakke, high-speed broadband, high-speed rail, infrastructure, infrastructure investment, joe biden, mdot, mobility infrastructure, nonmotorized infrastructure, nonmotorized transportation, pedestrian infrastructure, policy, port, ports, ports of entry, road safety, roads, USDoT, waterways

We must remind critics of the Biden infrastructure plan what all is included in the term “infrastructure.” It’s a little bit more than just cars.

Policy Mobility Infrastructure

Buttigieg Suggests VMT Tax. Here Are A Few Alternatives.

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments air pollution, biden infrastructure plan, biden transportation policy, cap-and-trade, carbon tax, daily signal, david ditch, elon musk, F-150 Super Duty State of Mind, f150, f150 super duty, gas consumption, gas prices, gas prices under biden, gas station, gas stations, gasoline, george saros and her emails, infrastructure funding, infrastructure spending, oregon carbon tax, oregon VMT, pete buttigieg, secretary of transportation, tesla model 3, tesla model s, un agenda 21, UN Agenda 21 Globalist Conspiracy, Utah VMT, vehicle miles traveled, VMT tax

VMT is a tough sell for a variety of reasons. Can’t we just get it over with and get a national carbon tax?

Public Health Government

Detroit Gets It Right On Vaccine Rollout

March 24, 2021March 24, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments astra zeneca, astra zeneca vaccine, astrazeneca, cardi b coronavirus, coronavirus, coronavirus vaccine, COVID19 vaccine, detroit lions, ford field, JNJ vaccine, johnson & johnson vaccine, moderna, moderna vaccine, pfizer, pfizer vaccine, tcf center, vaccine, vaccine hesitancy, vaccine rollout, vaccines, why are the detroit lions so bad

Vaccine rollout in Detroit has gone a lot better than management of the pandemic when it first started, and for this, the city should be given credit.

Politics Public Safety Law

Taxpayers Spend Hundreds of Millions Per Year On Police Brutality Settlements. That Money Could Be Better Spent.

February 23, 2021February 23, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments 538, 911, 911 calls, amelia thomson-deveaux, black lives matter, corktown, damini sharma, Detroit, detroit will breathe, detroit will breathe lawsuit, fivethirtyeight, hulk hogan gawker lawsuit, hulk hogan lawsuit, laura bronner, lawsuit, lawsuits, litigation, nate silver, new york city, nonviolent crimes, police abolition, police brutality, police brutality lawsuits, police lawsuits, police reform, police violence, police violence lawsuits, settlement, settlements, springfield mass, violent crimes

A new article from FiveThirtyEight looks at the staggering sums of money taxpayers are liable for in police brutality lawsuit settlement in 31 American cities. The data are unsurprisingly incomplete, and unsurprisingly appalling.

Business & Economics Public transit Transit infrastructure Government

Cato Needs To Re-Toole Their Bad Takes On Infrastructure

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments alstom, amtrak, amtrak capex, Amtrak NEC, bad ideas, batman, batman meme, capital expenditures, cato institute, farebox recovery ratio, federal spending, freight, FRR, government bad, government spending, gridlock, high-speed rail, inflation, intermodal, intermodal transit, libertarian, libertarianism, manufacturing, milkshakes, moore's law, multimodal, northeast corridor, northeast corridor tunnel, public transit, randal o'toole, randall o'toole, real clear policy, small government, train, trains, transit

The Cato Institute’s Randal O’Toole has a really terrible take on transportation investment that grossly misrepresents how money and economic efficiency work.

Mobility Public Health Public Safety Cities & Urban Planning Cycling

Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments accessibility, automobile fatalities, automotive infrastructure, autonomous vehicle, autonomous vehicles, car fatalities, car infrastructure, cars, class, cycling, cycling safety, cyclist, cyclists, death, driving, elaine herzberg, elaine herzberg death, elaine herzberg uber, environmental racism, mobility, pedestrian, pedestrian deaths, pedestrian safety, pedestrianization, pedestrians, pedestrians killed, public health, public safety, race, safe mobility, safe streets, self-driving car, single-occupant vehicles, street design, streetscaping, walkability

Angie Schmitt’s Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America (2020) is a must-read

Urban Planning Government Vacancy

Why Is Detroit Giving Industrial Slumlords Like Moroun A Free Pass?

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ambassador bridge, BSEED, building department, building inspections, building inspector, corktown, dan gilbert, Detroit, detroit international bridge company, DIBC, economic development, enforcement, gordie howe, gordie howe international bridge, green dot stables, logistics, manuel moroun, matty moroun, Mike Ilitch, moroun, northern border transit, rosa parks blvd., southwest detroit, trucking, UST properties, UST Properties of Michigan, ust properties of michigan llc, Vacancy, warren, west side industrial

The owners of the Ambassador Bridge, their trucking empire, and a plethora of shell corporations own many acres of prime real estate close to Detroit’s downtown. Why have they avoided regulatory scrutiny?

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