Topics that have been the focus of past Bacon’s Rebellion Columns and Posts:
Item One:
The Wealth Gap was still getting wider in 2007 – the latest numbers from Federal Reserve.
Fundamental Transformation of the economic system (as well as Fundamental Transformation of the settlement pattern and Fundamental Transformation of the governance structure) or Collapse.
Item Two:
Working at home seems to lead to layoffs for Teleworkers.
Too bad that Telework was not more intelligently positioned as a strategy to support the evolution of Balanced Communities instead of a crutch for long commutes.
Item Three:
US Census says migration to “the Outer Suburbs nearly halts” in the National Capital Subregion
Eat your heart out NVTA and the 12.5 Percenters.
Item Four:
Commonwealth Transportation Board has set new regs that will discourage cul-de-sad subdivisions. A favorite topic of Jim Bacon’s
Only 35 years too late. EMR testified against them and in favor of inter-Cluster connections in 1973. Wake us when municipalities and the Commonwealth agree to retrofit / interconnect Orphan Subdivisions to create interconnected Clusters, Neighborhoods and Villages.
Item Five:
CNN has to updating it’s running tab of newspaper closings hourly.
Another Jim Bacon favorite: Who WILL gather and report the news? See THE ESTATES MATRIX
EMR
