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A Recent History of ‘Skinny Fat’ or How Fit Were People in the Old Days? 

  • Culture
June 14, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Recently in an airport, I saw and bought a rather provocative issue of Scientific American.  The cover declared that humans ‘evolved’ to exercise, while the most similar forms of life – chimpanzees and bonobos –  function very well as couch potatoes, according to […]

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Should Transit-Oriented Housing be Limited to the Carless?

  • Politics
June 11, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In addition to the NIMBYs and the YIMBYs, we now have the PHIMBYs:  Public Housing in My Back Yard. This new acronym represents those who believe that public-subsidized housing should be added to our cities, but no private enterprise market-rate […]

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Conferences on Urbanism

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March 15, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A Home in California: Are Our Communities Sustainable? Event Details:Tuesday, March 26, 20199 AM – 5 PMPepperdine School of Public PolicyWilburn AuditoriumMalibu, CAFor details and registration, click here In this conference Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy bring together a unique mix […]

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The Gasoline Tax: Charles Krauthammer Breaks with Republican Orthodoxy

  • Economics
March 14, 2016July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Charles Krauthammer, generally regarded as a conservative writer, declared more than a year ago that he had been for a gasoline tax increase of $1 a gallon for 32 years.  That would be, if I calculate right, since 1983. I’ve […]

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Which Taxes to Raise – A Revision

  • Economics
February 27, 2015July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In earlier posts I suggested that the top bracket income tax could be raised to up to 40%, as in the Clinton era, without hurting government revenues or damaging the economy.  It still might not, but I have decided that […]

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Declining Hubs: A Good Location for Experimenting with High Speed Rail

  • California
May 17, 2014July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I stumbled recently on a page in Therichest.com listing seven airports in America that are declining in their status as hubs, and it is interesting that they seem to be concentrated in one region: the area between the Great Plains […]

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China’s High-Speed Rail

  • Culture
April 3, 2014July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Yeah!!!  I admit there are a lot of problems with California”s high speed rail, and it was probably a mistake, but if high speed rail could replace a lot of airplanes I would be very very happy. In Response To: […]

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‘Streetcars’ vs. Light Rail

  • California
September 13, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Samuel L. Scheib, editor of Trip Planner magazine, argues here that so-called ‘streetcars’, trams which actually run in the street with the cars, are not so much ‘public transit’ in the manner of light rail as a tourist amenity and […]

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New York City Transit’s Inconvenient Pricing

  • Miscellaneous
May 5, 2012July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

New York City, much to my disappointment, has discontinued its transit one-day unlimited ride ticket.  [You can still get such a ticket for a week, but I’m never in town that long.]  What you can get is cards with $10.70 […]

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Obama’s Dilemma, High Speed Rail, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and Other Miscellaneous Observations

  • Economics
February 1, 2012July 17, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Joel Kotkin, director of one of our favorite sites, Newgeography.com, has exposed how Obama has alienated people on all sides, even though he will probably win the election.  I notice, now that I think about it, that while the Occupy […]

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The argument is that certain kinds of political ideas that are “hateful” are like pornography in that they are inherently tempting to fallen humanity. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-lies-free-speech.html

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Of course, I’d call Critical Race Theory “hate speech,” too. What to do with that? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-lies-free-speech.html

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