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In My Backyard
"Desperate Housewives" is just the latest to offer up a depiction of the "seamy" side of suburban life. Writer D.J. Waldie takes issue with that view in his memoir of the California working class tract development where he grew up, and lives to this day.
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Glenn Reynolds, Writes the blog, Instapundit and is a law professor at the University of Tennessee
- on the continuing senate fight over judicial nominations, progress in Iraq
» Instapundit
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Dante Chinni, Political Columnist for the Christian Science Monitor and senior associate at the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, on the continuing senate fight over judicial nominations, progress in Iraq
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In My Backyard
D. J. Waldie, writer, Public Information Officer of the city of Lakewood since 1978 and author of the soon-to-be reissued, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (W.W.Norton, April 18, 2005)
- on his memoir of his working class suburb
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Rosalyn Baxandall Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair of American Studies at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury and co-author with Elizabeth Ewen,
Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened (Basic Books, 2001)
- on Long Island suburban development
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Robert Beuka, Assistant professor of English at Bronx Community College, City University of New York and author, SuburbiaNation : Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
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Tom Suozzi Nassau County Executive (D)
- on his vision for a "new suburbia"
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Housing Crunch
Julia Vitullo-Martin Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and Director of the Center for Rethinking Development at the Manhattan Insitute
- on budget cuts to HUD that will decrease day-to day operations of urban housing authorities
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Alyssa Katz Editor of City Limits
- on budget cuts to HUD which will decrease day-to-day operations of urban housing authorities
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Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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