Here are few things we've been reading this week.
- Legislature to Durham-Orange light rail: Stop dead in your tracks: A funding cap of $500,000 in this year's state budget could prove a lethal blow to the Durham-Orange light rail project.
- These Are Words Scholars Should No Longer Use to Describe Slavery and the Civil War: A new generation of scholarship has changed the way we understand slavery, capitalism,and the Civil War. Our language should reflect that change.
- What's the Matter With San Francisco?: A look at how San Francisco's progressive politics and desire to preserve old buildings have caused problems for affordable housing.
- The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration: Though the need for sentencing reform has floated to the top of our political discourse, Ta-Nehisi Coates argues that we're still unable to reckon with our troubled racial history.
- Surgeon General’s Warning: Unwalkable Places Are Hazardous to Your Health: The U.S. Surgeon General points out that building walkable places can benefit a nation where chronic diseases like heart afflict one in two people.
- New Limitation on Animal Control Ordinances:A look at the implications of recently enacted legislation that restricts local government authority to regulate the treatment of farm animals.
- How to Make Big Box Stores Less Terrible for Walking: 8 Expert Tips: Ideas from an author and architect on how communities can make better use of big box sites.
- The Living Wage Map: A geographic look at the gap between the minimum wage and the living wage.
- Jersey City's Innovative New Affordable Housing Plan Might Actually Work: The city wants to steer mixed-income development to all its neighborhoods with clever tax incentives.
- ideas42 Sets Out to Help End Poverty Through Behavioral Interventions:The story of a New York non-profit aiming to help end inter-generational poverty through developing interventions based in psychology and behavioral economics.
- 10 Ways Well-Meaning White Teachers Bring Racism Into Our Schools: How well-meaning white teachers mean and have no intention of being racistsintroduce racisim into our schools.
- Why car-crazy cities are riding the rails: Cities across the South and West are finding that light rail can serve urban residents better than commuter rail and express bus services, which focus on shuttling commuters from the suburbs into urban job centers
What have you been reading lately? Tell us in the comments.
