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- Tuesday Tunes: Out-of-this-world rock band names
- Riding the rails of interstellar discovery at the Very Large Array
- Majestic “mesa” cities and towns around the globe
- Canada’s next supergroup – A Short Walk to Pluto
- Two migration tales of strength, hardship, and tenacity
- An out-of-this-world visit to the Very Large Array (VLA)
- Albuquerque is a national leader in water conservation
- The buzz about America’s “bee-friendly” cities
- Tallest buildings of Greater Washington, DC
- New Mexico’s protected wildlife areas along the Rio Grande
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Tag Archives: employment
Ten planning lessons they didn’t teach you in school
The following insights are not covered sufficiently in planning school. The planning community should work with accredited schools to assure that future graduates are aware of these issues and are better equipped to handle/address them. These are presented in no … Continue reading
Posted in civics, Civil Rights, civility, colleges, Communications, culture, feminism, gentrification, health, Highway displacement, homelessness, inclusiveness, injustice, land use, opinion, planning, politics, Privatization, racism, Sexism, social equity, urban planning, zoning
Tagged employment, equity, job, justice, planner, planning, work, zoning
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Equity is an economic growth engine!
Findings from the National Equity Atlas for ten (10) geographically dispersed mid-sized metropolitan regions are provided below. Check out the last column as it depicts how much more robust each of these regions would have been if there had been … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, ageism, business, cities, diversity, economic development, economic gardening, economics, Economy, fair trade, feminism, geography, government, history, humanity, inclusiveness, Labor, planning, poverty, social equity, Statistics, Women
Tagged cities, diversity, employment, gender equity, geography, income, National Equity Atlas, persons of color, planning, social equity, statistics, wage equity, wages, women
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Where to be (or not to be) a working mom
Posted in Advocacy, commerce, family, feminism, geography, health, Health care, humanity, Maps, politics, Sexism, States, Statistics, Women
Tagged employment, moms, states, statistics, women
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America’s primary high-tech nodes
Provided below are two lists compiled from 2011 data and published in a December 2012 report by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. The first lists those cities or portions of metropolitan areas that have the highest percentage of their … Continue reading
Posted in cities, Communications, culture, economic development, economic gardening, Economy, entrepreneurship, geography, Health care, infrastructure, Labor, North America, planning, product design, Science, Small business, States, Statistics, technology, Trade
Tagged cities, economics, economy, employment, entrepreneurship, high-tech, jobs, research, Science, technology, Wichita
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Immigration mythbusting
A popular and entertaining show on the Discovery Channel is Mythbusters. This author hopes this post will help dispel some of the incorrect and downright cruel myths about immigrants that are cited by xenophobes and radical conservatives to frame the … Continue reading
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