Christopher Swope

Recent Articles

• Heads Up: 10.12.07
• Oct 12, 2007
• The rich really do get richer. WSJ (paid subsc) Why do MN docs see fewer pharma sales reps?  NYT  Detroit already has one ...

• Heads Up: 10.11.07
• Oct 11, 2007
• Deer Park, that's an interesting tax! Chicago Trib Where the subprime loans are. (Hint: everywhere). WSJ (paid subsc) Outgoing head of AEI tells all about ...

• Heads Up: 10.10.07
• Oct 10, 2007
• Can a California Raisin wannabe teach transit civility to a 17 year old? Our tipster in Sacramento thinks not. Bee Seattle Mayor Greg Nickles is everywhere. ...

• Sweat, No Equity
• Oct 1, 2007
• Some states offer the chance to live in a run-down historic house for free in exchange for fixing it up.
• 1 Comments

• The Wi-Fi That Wasn't
• Oct 1, 2007
• Citywide wireless networks aren't dead. It's just that the terms of the deals are changing--radically.

• Tough Times For Locals
• Sep 1, 2007
• Florida lawmakers make deep cuts in the property tax and leave it to voters to OK even deeper cuts.

• Fears of Collapse
• Sep 1, 2007
• Since last month's bridge disaster in Minneapolis, everyone's heard about America's 75,000 "structurally deficient" bridges. Although the label doesn't mean any of them are about to fall, the staggering stat reminds us how much government at all levels has neglected its infrastructure.

• Something in the Water
• Sep 1, 2007
• Want to know how hooked on drugs your town is? There's a remarkable and rather gross new way to find out. Scientists now believe they can measure the prevalence of cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin in a community's raw sewage.

• Muni WiFi: Not Dead Yet
• Aug 30, 2007
• Two bits of news have some media outlets putting municipal WiFi on life support.
• 6 Comments

• Desert Downtown
• Aug 1, 2007
• A few years ago, I went to Phoenix in July. The temperature downtown was 106 degrees in the shade. Walking from my hotel to the convention center was a sweaty, lonely experience. Nobody else seemed brave enough, or perhaps dumb enough, to venture into this kiln on foot.

• Powering Down
• Jul 31, 2007
• Saving electricity has never been a big priority in North Carolina. Power is cheap and plentiful, as it is across much of the South. These...

• Heads Up: 7.27.07
• Jul 27, 2007
• WiFi may end a NJ institution: the beach badge. Newsday David Broder: Guvs on the sidelines in race for president. WaPo Wall Street relishes as ...

• The Naked Road
• Jul 26, 2007
• What happens when you rip out all of the pedestrian "safety" features of a city street--the guardrails, the signposts, the white lines on ...

• Heads Up: 7.26.07
• Jul 26, 2007
• Hurricane forecaster: global warming not linked to Atlantic storms. WSJ (paid subs) Study finds obesity spreads among social circles. WaPo FL spends $1 mil to tout ...

• Heads Up: 7.25.07
• Jul 25, 2007
• Doctor shortage crimps MA health care experiment. WSJ Oakland weighs "goose poop Zamboni." SF Chronicle Iowa spends $4 million to save $3 million. Des Moines ...