My Letter to the Putnam County commissioners about why I support the 4Leaf Solar Project in Cloverdale, IN. TLDR: It’s about clean air, clean water, and the freedom of property owner to make their own decisions.
Category: Land Use
A Jobs-Housing Map for the Midwest Partnership
In light of regions of the country becoming mini-nation-states including a pact of Midwestern States and in an effort to get some more data, I put together this map, which shows the jobs-housing mismatch for the five states that are definitely part of the midwest, the former Northwest Territories:
Ohio’s Housing Crisis
Ratios of Housing to Jobs in parts of Ohio are as bad as the San Francisco Bay Area Columbus homeowners have been celebrating news that their home values have skyrocketed in that last few years. The Columbus Dispatch in particular has been praising the local market, saying that homeowners are “sitting on a gold mine”…
Counterpoint – Let’s not Give Rich People a $30 Billion Gift
There’s been a lot of hype around the hyperloop here in Ohio lately. There are two separate efforts for a regional hyperloop between the Buckeye State and Chicago: in Columbus and in Cleveland. The effort in Cleveland is much further along in the process, having completed a feasibility study, and as a result, it’s getting…
How to pay for awesome public transit
It’s not that we don’t have money for it. It’s that it’s not a priority. Last week, I posted a fantasy transit map for the state of Ohio. The reception of the map on twitter was surprising. Honestly, I thought that like four nerds would be interested in it, but apparently it struck a chord.…
Crazy Idea: Let’s build a Rail Network in Ohio!
I generally don’t like the idea of cars. They are highly inefficient, they take up a ton of space, and they cost a lot of money. I’d much rather ride a bike or take a train or bus where I can read while traveling. Nonetheless, we have two cars in my family, and I’d really…