Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn

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AP: Louisiana Supreme Court rules for new City of St. George - Looks like an Atlanta style "cityhood" movement has hit Baton Rouge apnews.com/article/new-lo…

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Among communities in the 1yr ACS (pop >65,000), Carmel ranks 10th nationally in college degree attainment and 35th in median hh income. Not elite in the Palo Alto sense of the word, but certainly one of the top communities of its type in the US, with people and aspects that are…

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Big shift underway in America’s economic geography: The most affluent metro areas are no longer creating the majority of new jobs.

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If Indy Mayor Hogsett wants to put an MLS stadium on the heliport site, then Chuck Surack, the Ft. Wayne businessman behind Sweetwater Sound, must be part of his "ownership team" as Surack owns a lot of the and around the heliport which he bought specifically to keep the city…

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Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn

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There's been a push in red states to create schools within their universities that are not monolithically left politically, and which focus on traditional civics education. I talked to Dr. Paul Carrese at Arizona State, where the very first of these was established.

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Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn

12 hours ago

Densification as a strategy for reducing housing costs has limits/barriers. Community infrastructure is generally sized to the current development style and population. Density and growth can be accommodated to a degree, but at some point major infrastructure expansion and…

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Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn

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What's the tax situation in Jersey City and Hoboken compared to the New Jersey median ? It would be interesting to see some density and tax rate analysis from dense but smaller places. Maybe they show some efficiencies

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Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn

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The position of the mainstream leadership class seems to be that a) falling birth rates are not that big a deal, and b) even a slight decline in the immigration rate is a dire threat to the future of the country.

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Politico: The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population politico.com/news/magazine/…

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Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸 @aaron_renn

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I see endless arguments for why dense developments are more efficient, but denser, bigger cities seem to be higher tax jurisdictions. Whereas there are plenty of low density jurisdictions with low taxes.