Like everyone I’ve been shifting gears as the fickle winds of technology, which now regards blogs as passé, take me. I’ve been focusing more on journalism and book writing (more about my cur...
Among the many distressing aspects of the presidential impeachment now underway is the perception that extorting a foreign leader to investigate the President’s rivals is unsavory but not impor...
https://jamessrussell.net/2020/01/22/cities-rise-from-the-dead-shows-why-extortion-is-bad/
If you missed it, it’s worth catching up on the brilliant Emily Badger’s Upshot column in the New York Times that appealingly focuses on cities scared of becoming Manhattanized, or San Fra...
https://jamessrussell.net/2019/01/20/it-should-not-be-bad-for-cities-to-be-rich/
“Stop Amazon!” is increasingly the mantra of activists in New York, referring to the new $5 billion campus the company is slated to develop in Long Island City, Queens. With righteous rage, ...
https://jamessrussell.net/2018/12/26/can-amazon-be-gasp-good-for-new-york/
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will no doubt be subjected to detailed questioning this week about his substantial record as a jurist. Kavanaugh has been groomed through the equivalent of a...
https://jamessrussell.net/2018/09/03/questions-for-brett-kavanaugh/
You may have paid little attention to the tax plan rushing headlong through Congress. It has been advertised as a middle-class tax break and an inducement to business to create jobs throug...
https://jamessrussell.net/2017/12/11/tax-plan-to-cities-drop-dead/
In a year of extraordinary disasters, the sheer scope of recovery and rebuilding can seem mind boggling. We’re tempted to turn away in horror at buildings with roofs ripped off in Puerto Rico...
https://jamessrussell.net/2017/10/03/disaster-recovery-secret-weapon-neighborhood-groups/
New York subway delays became epidemic this summer and emergency repairs at Penn Station snarled commuter traffic. A recent column by the NYT’s Michael Kimmelman ruminated on these transit woes...
https://jamessrussell.net/2017/08/09/in-a-summer-of-subway-hell-learning-from-london/
First it was billionaires. Now the so-called Creative Class and its Millennial progeny are deemed responsible for The New Urban Crisis, which is what Creative Class guru Richard Florida has dubbe...
https://jamessrussell.net/2017/02/28/housing-for-shelter-not-investors/
I am no labor expert but all the things I know much more about —and usually write about—from climate change to transportation and architecture—were held hostage in this election to voters w...
https://jamessrussell.net/2017/02/05/while-youll-never-get-a-raise-under-trump/