by admin | Jan 4, 2015 | Activism, Chicago, Government, Public safety, Racism
If I were a major celebrity like Oprah Winfrey, I could expect immediate and fierce feedback whenever I chose to comment on a controversial issue. I am not, but she is, and on Saturday, January 3, she got such feedback after expressing doubts about the leadership of...
by admin | Dec 28, 2014 | Chicago, Public safety, Transportation
As any urban planner, lawyer, or intelligent elected official knows, public safety is a powerful argument in support of measures undertaken by any level of government. This is particularly true of local government, which in the U.S. is responsible for most law...
by admin | Dec 15, 2014 | Blogging, Climate, Disaster, Disaster policy, Public safety, Resilience, Urban Planning
This is one of those short posts that takes you to a different blog, but one for which I have direct responsibilities–the Recovery News blog at the American Planning Association website. We posted last Friday a video interview with Matthew Appelbaum, the mayor...
by admin | Nov 9, 2014 | Disaster, Disaster policy, Government, Public safety, Urban Planning
Little more than a week ago (October 28-29), I was participating in a conference in Broomfield, Colorado, north of Denver, sponsored by the Association of State Floodplain Managers, a national organization of 16,000 members dedicated to better floodplain management in...
by admin | Nov 2, 2014 | Disaster, Disaster policy, Public safety
I have been to my fair share of presentations on disaster-related issues. When I hear a particularly good presentation, I know it is good because I have a lot of others to which I can compare it. Sometimes local planners, emergency managers, and engineers, among...
by admin | Aug 7, 2014 | Disaster, Disaster policy, Public safety, Urban Planning
I’ll keep this short because it’s really all about listening to a half-hour video from Google Hangout produced by the Salt Lake Tribune yesterday, if you care to watch and listen. There was a landslide in North Salt Lake, Utah, earlier this week, so the...
