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By now, of course, anybody who has followed the saga of congestion pricing in New York knows the outcome:  on Monday, the New York State Assembly failed to vote on the congestion pricing program, ensuring that it won’t go forward,...

 Matthew Yglesias on theatlantic.com points out that it is not just large cities and metro areas that can adopt smart growth practices.  He correctly explains that there are plenty of places in America that will never have, for example, sophisticated public...

Mariano Rivera is taking the mound now, trying to do his magic to pull out a win...Crain's, the Washington Post, the NY Daily News, the NY Post are all telling various stories of last-minute negotiations, hallway discussions, and everything else...

Two weeks ago, I wrote about some misguided claims by David Pimentel and what I saw as overly broad and overly pessimistic views on biofuels from cellulosic biomass by Tom Philpott. Last week, Tom paid my blog here a visit...

On Monday, the New York City Council passed, by a margin of 30-20, the congestion pricing bill, kicking off an intense week of lobbying for its passage in Albany.This was a huge victory for Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council...