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...heart of the initiative is Masdar City, a community designed for 40,000, set to be completed by 2016, that bills itself as the city of the future. Cars will be banned, so residents will be whisked around the city on a personal rapid transit (PRT) system, an automated cable-car-like network. (The PRT cars, unveiled at WFES, look as if they were stolen from the set of Star Trek.) More prosaically, the 2.3-sq.-mi. (6 sq km) walled community will have a solar-powered desalination plant, and conservation will keep water use 60% below the norm...
...well as $6 billion "to turn federal buildings into 'green' buildings," with the telling scare quotes deriding the idea of creating short-term jobs for retrofitters while reducing long-term federal energy costs and emissions. There has been a sensible push to add even more money for mass transit, which reduces energy use, increases the competitiveness of metropolitan areas and helps working families. Expanded unemployment benefits and food stamps will be excellent stimulus--and they're desperately needed right now. In general, most of the current proposals--though not all--aim to limit the new spending to the next...
...weather satellites, antismoking programs and the like. But the austerity scolds haven't found many outrages; antismoking programs, for example, are a terrific way to hold down the long-term health costs that threaten the Treasury's long-term solvency. There ought to be even more money for mass transit, which reduces energy use, increases the competitiveness of metropolitan areas and helps working families, as well as freight rail, which has even greater environmental and economic advantages. Expanded unemployment benefits and food stamps would be excellent stimulus - and those are both desperately needed right now. Retrofitting federal buildings...
Certainly, this specific incident should be condemned on all fronts. Grant’s shooting was unwarranted, and so were the transit officers’ hyper aggressive and disrespectful treatment of Grant and his cohorts throughout the episode. The fact that Grant was black and Mehserle is white has aggravated the charges of misconduct...
Police departments might need to make unprecedented changes in order to ensure the integrity of police protection. This may mean reducing the number of armed cops on the street, or reevaluating exactly which cops truly need guns to facilitate their duties. For example, in the Bay Area, transit police are employed to preserve the safety of transit riders. In the majority of cases, a gun might not be needed to fulfill this objective, as shown by this recent incident, guns may counter that purpose. Departments could, alternatively, become more stringent about the police’s freedom to use lethal...