The responses are unequivocal. Our respondents believe that without adaptive reuse you simply don’t have successful historic preservation. Three quarters felt adaptive reuse was critical; around a quarter felt it was important. One percent had no opinion. And zero people, ZERO, said that adaptive reuse was Not Important or of Little Importance. So for some … Continue reading “Results of PresPoll #2 – Adaptive Reuse”
Summer is the season for road trips. We took a long one in June, winding up to Milwaukee from Georgia, looping through Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, then dipping down to New Orleans for a big conference and some beignets. We ate our fair share of ice cream and local diners’ fried specialties, but the real … Continue reading “RCI takes a road trip!”
We all know the litany of huge corporations who were bailed out by the US taxpayers under BOTH George Bush and Barack Obama (and those who don’t acknowledge the responsibility of both for that irresponsible idiocy are letting your partisanship get in the way of reality) – General Motors, AGI, Citibank, Fanny Mae, Freddie Mac, … Continue reading “And that’s the thanks they get…..small business and the American economy”
If you listen to the Tea Party people the government can’t do anything right; if you listen to the Occupy Wall Street people the government is the answer to all our problems. Both are not only misguided, they’re simply silly and ignore great examples of how government can be an effective partner for local initiatives. … Continue reading “Citizens (and their government) doing the right thing”
Thoughts from a Militant Moderate OK, nothing I am suggesting will immediately get us out of the fiscal mess we’re in…only time, common sense, and a willingness to put country over party will do that. But the demagogic, ideological lunatics on both sides of the political spectrum have amply demonstrated that they are lacking in … Continue reading “Common Sense to the Economic Debate”
How embarrassing. Two hundred and thirty five years ago, patriots gathered in Philadelphia to pledge their wealth, their lives, and their sacred honor for America’s independence. What do we have today? A Congress filled with men and women who exchange their pledges for payments from PACs; who care more about entitlements for the AARP and … Continue reading “Independence Day 2011”