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...quote from John F. Kennedy, "Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." So I urge Kinsley, an obviously intelligent man, to tell us what it is we don't know - but should - about where we're headed. Steve Walsh, Atlanta...
...million unique monthly visitors, according to Nielsen Online. The merger could help drive new traffic to NBC's other digital content. What's more, The Weather Channel, which is currently owned by Landmark Communications, has a brand-new $60 million state-of-the-art, high-definition recording studio in Atlanta, from which it can produce digital broadcasts both for television and the Web. Viewers can also look forward to long-form programming, like weather documentaries and dramas, that meld Weather Channel content with NBC talent...
Nobody is arguing that the rebuilding effort--which will add as much Class-A office space as exists in all of downtown Atlanta--is simple. But lower Manhattan is in danger of becoming a metaphor for America's sluggish response to our most pressing economic challenges. A recent U.S. Chamber of Commerce report shows a litany of problems: an overloaded rail infrastructure that needs new tracks, signals, tunnels and bridges. Most ports need dredging; almost half of all canal locks are obsolete. While China is spending nearly 9% of its gdp on infrastructure, Americans lose $9 billion a year...
Nobody is arguing that the rebuilding effort, which will add as much new office space as exists in all of downtown Atlanta, is simple. But it should be a national project, a priority for government at the highest levels, something that voters actually hold politicians accountable for. John McCain and Barack Obama are feuding these days over what constitutes legitimate infrastructure spending and what is just pork-barrel spending. But it won't simply take money to fix Ground Zero. It will take leadership, lots of it. A full acknowledgment of the site's problems from the candidates would help...
...Boulder, and Kirk White, an economist at Duke University's Triangle Census Research Data Center, compared confidential Census figures from 1990 and 2000 from 15,040 neighborhoods, with an average of about 4,000 residents each, in 64 metropolitan areas, such as Phoenix, Boston, Ft. Lauderdale, Columbus, New York, Atlanta and San Diego. The researchers identified gentrifying neighborhoods as those in which the average family earned less than $30,079 in 1990 - the poorest one-fifth of the country - and at least $10,000 more 10 years later. Taken all together, the study paints a more nuanced picture of gentrification...