Buttigieg Suggests VMT Tax. Here Are A Few Alternatives.
VMT is a tough sell for a variety of reasons. Can’t we just get it over with and get a national carbon tax?
Read MoreVMT is a tough sell for a variety of reasons. Can’t we just get it over with and get a national carbon tax?
Read MoreGun registration is a proposal that has gained little traction because of a widespread fear that it would result in guns being confiscated. There’s little evidence to suggest that such fears are warranted. But there’s also a good body of evidence suggesting that, well, the government probably knows who has guns already.
Read MoreThe Energy Waste Reduction Committee of the Detroit Green Task Force met yesterday morning to talk shop for the last
Read MoreCOVID19 is exposing a particularly ugly nexus between energy insecurity and housing insecurity, referred to in a few separate presentations at a recent workgroup meeting of the Michigan Public Service Commission.
Read MoreRepublicans have tried time and again to defund Amtrak, which receives about a tenth of one percent of the funding directed to car infrastructure every year. Will a new Democratic administration be able to (finally) push for modernizing our transit infrastructure?
Read MoreUnsurprisingly, rhetoric usually becomes increasingly political as we approach the 2020 presidential election. To paraphrase a staffer on Aaron Sorkin’s
Read MoreMichigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s Council on Future Mobility is not about mobility, it’s about cars. That’s got to change if we’re serious about decarbonizing transportation– or building an equitable future of any kind.
Read MoreOakland-based nonprofit fundraising and strategy consultant Julie Barton, PhD, talks to us about her concerns regarding the nonprofit sector. We also get some perspective on California’s new law, AB5, which has had unintended consequences for the gig economy at an extremely inopportune time.
Read MoreThere are two notable points about the gargantuan COVID19 rescue bill recently passed by Congress. The first? It’s not enough.
Read MoreIndividual consumers are the life and death of the US economy. So why does the proposed bailout package focus disproportionately on corporations?
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