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Author: Larry Littlefield

The Police Claim To Have Changed The World But Somehow Don’t Know the World Has Changed

Larry Littlefield | December 15, 2014
I try to avoid chiming in on the issue of the day, unless I have specific knowledge to add....
News and Opinion

Can The Urban Archipelago Be Recreated?

Larry Littlefield | December 6, 2014
Suddenly a huge share of an entire generation wants to live in places connected to jobs by mass transit,...
News and Opinion

The (New) Urban Crisis

Larry Littlefield | November 23, 2014
Here is something I didn’t expect to read in a business publication. http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/print-edition/2014/10/17/editorial-the-free-market-and-housing-for-the.html “Readers of this space know we...
News and Opinion

NYC Politicians and Public Employee Unions Seek Replacement Pension Shill

Larry Littlefield | November 16, 2014
I read recently that New York City public actuary Robert North is retiring, some years after I wrote that...
News and Opinion

The Puerto Rico Disaster

Larry Littlefield | November 10, 2014
I just read that many of our elected officials are in Puerto Rico. Here is the Unsaid about that...
News and Opinion

The 2014 Election: The Anger of the Entitled

Larry Littlefield | October 29, 2014
There is perhaps one thing more disappointing that the silence of the non-election for the House of Representatives, New...
News and Opinion

Is There An Election This Year?

Larry Littlefield | October 27, 2014
In Plato’s Republic, the discussion of morality begins with the tale of Gyges and the Ring. Glaucon, Plato’s elder...
Albany, National

Do the City and State of New York Want People In Brooklyn To Buy Cars?

Larry Littlefield | October 19, 2014
Last July, our old Saturn wagon finally gave out after 17 years, lasting five more years than the GM...
News and Opinion

Update: Oil, Sugar, and 35 (Now 41) Wasted Years

Larry Littlefield | October 8, 2014
So much for all that happy talk about American energy independence. With the solar energy booming, domestic fossil fuel...
News and Opinion

Some Notes About New York from the American Community Survey

Larry Littlefield | October 4, 2014
The 2013 data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey was been rolling out over the last few...
Albany, New York
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