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The Tastes of our Southern Neighbors, and our Housing Issues

  • Culture
February 3, 2018August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Instead of Berbers, ‘Arabs’, Turks, and other Muslim groups, we have to our south Mexico.  Maybe we could consider ourselves relatively fortunate because of this.  The best book in English on Mexican culture in recent times that I know of […]

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Suggestions for the Democratic Party, Part 2:  The Housing Issue

  • Politics
March 29, 2017December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I just put out a post on the weaknesses and inconsistencies of the Democratic Party, and then realized that I had omitted one issue that is close to our heart here at Blue Kennel.  I refer to, of course, the […]

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Where in Southern California Could We Fit New Suburbs?

  • California
December 10, 2014July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

People like Joel Kotkin and Wendell Cox have argued, to some extent rightly, that the majority of Americans prefer a suburban environment; and even the younger Millennial generation, willing to live in more urban places during their single and cohabiting years, […]

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If We Treated Food the Way We Treated Housing

  • Economics
November 18, 2014July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Josh Barro, an economics columnist at the New York Times who used to be at Forbes, has written an interesting column on what the food marketplace would be like if we owned lifetime resaleable futures in our food instead of […]

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Now, Even Apartment Dwellers are Getting Choosy about their Neighbors

  • Culture
November 13, 2014July 6, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

It has been known for a long time that homeowners have wanted to control who their neighbors are.  In the past it was race; now it is for income and for how they might use their property, and often for […]

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What Kevin Starr Doesn’t Get About Small Towns

  • Culture
July 9, 2014June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have been enjoying Kevin Starr’s volume in his cultural history series, Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963.  It is a period of which I have some living memory, and I have heard of, or met, in […]

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Michael Lind’s New Paradigm, and the ‘End’ of Social Conservatism

  • Economics
July 6, 2014August 24, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Michael Lind has released a new essay titled “The Coming Realignment” in The Breakthrough Journal, one of the most innovative magazines around today.  He predicts that social conservatism as we know it will fade away, but that we will not […]

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June Gloom All Year Round

  • California
March 24, 2014July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Joel Kotkin has got a post up, partially entitled, “Coastal Cities are Old News – It’s the Sunbelt that’s Booming.”  In it, he declares, “people seem to, once again, be streaming toward the expanse of warm-weather states extending from the […]

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After a Century, Why is the San Francisco Bay Area Kicking our Butt Now?

  • California
February 2, 2014July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I was young in the early Sixties, when the cultural rivalry between Los Angeles and San Francisco was strong and active. Jack Smith, for Los Angeles, and Herb Caen, for San Francisco, used to feud regularly in their newspaper columns […]

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Why The Dream Declined

  • Economics
April 7, 2013December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The best single post on the decline of affordable housing that I have seen on one of my favorite sites, newgeography.com, is this by Roger Selbert.  He most succinctly explains the reasons why the American dream of subsidized home ownership [discussed […]

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