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Showing posts with label infrastructure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infrastructure. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

To contradict consistent record of impotence, DOT opens needed inquiry into airline miles programs

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Washington, D.C.— The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) last week opened an investigation of airline frequent-flier programs, and it'...
Monday, October 23, 2023

Bahamian development, identity stall between Columbus, Atlantis; tourist dollars seem not to land

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Columbus is absent from Government House, Nassau. Bowen Yang's amusing portrayal of Christopher Columbus on the Saturday Night Live &qu...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Follow the dollar, name politicians in train disaster

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Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) blocked rail safety measures. Medill DC via Flickr CC BY 2.0 Government "tried" to regulate rail, but ...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

BU prof's death was tragic accident; investigation shows bad policy, but not criminal negligence

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A Savory Tort Investigation I've posted for public download [no longer posted; contact me for file] files of the investigation into the...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Courts extend European accountability laws to private actors: Italian soccer federation, Irish wind farm

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Two recent court decisions in Europe construed European directives on public accountability to reach ostensibly private actors, the Italian ...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Book chapter examines information access in context of Polish privatization, law and development

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My colleague Gaspar Kot and I have published a book chapter entitled Private-Sector Transparency as Development Imperative: An African In...
Monday, March 16, 2020

Zimbabweans still await their development moment

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Robert Mugabe airport. All photos RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 . In Harare, Zimbabwe, my host (whose identity I am protecting) brought ...
Monday, March 9, 2020

Poor development choices may bolster quality-of-life disparity on Tanzania's Msasani Peninsula

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 Coco Beach, Msasani Peninsula, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. All photos RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 . The short length of Coco Beach is t...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

Social-science saucebox opines on bike-bridge closures

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A reporter stopped me on a run last week to obtain my critical policy analysis of the bridge-replacement situation on the East Bay Bike ...