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It sounds from this account that Trump had no real idea that North Korea has always wanted a face-to-face meeting with the U.S. president, and the U.S. has always imposed conditions. That would certainly be the logical interpretation of this account, given that, in the last week, Trump has confused North Korea with the...
Of course, that’s the old policy. Which means Trump shot off his mouth and got excited and then his advisers had to explain to him why he can’t do that. Or maybe they haven’t explained it to him and are backing out without his permission. Whatever the explanation, the major policy change Trump announced appears to be c...
In the past few years, widespread frustration with sprawling development patterns has precipitated an explosion in metropolitan thinking and action across the United States. A new policy language—”smart growth,” “livable communities,” “metropolitanism,” “sustainable development”—has emerged to describe efforts to curb ...
The involvement of governors and state legislatures in smart growth efforts has been particularly noteworthy. Since 1997, states have made progress on several fronts, including growth management, infrastructure policy, metropolitan governance, and land acquisition. Tennessee, for example, recently became the eleventh s...
The metropolitan reforms taking hold in state legislatures and elsewhere are ambitious and will alter some of the government policies that have spurred the decentralization of economic and residential life in America. But will they be enough to tame sprawl and help shape an alternative form of growth? The discussion to...
This raises an intriguing set of questions. What is the full range of forces that shape metropolitan growth? To what extent does today’s metropolitan agenda address the major factors driving current growth patterns? What other issues do metropolitan areas (and the federal and state governments) need to address to grow ...
To answer these questions, the Brookings Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy is working with local scholars to examine growth patterns in the Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, and Washington, D.C., metropolitan areas. Early findings of our analysis of Greater Washington ar...
Greater Washington spans two states, one federal district, and nine local jurisdictions. The area prospered in the 1990s and now boasts a booming high-technology sector. But some side effects have been unwelcome. The metropolitan region is the second most congested in the country, trailing only Los Angeles. Loudoun Cou...
Congestion, school overcrowding, loss of open space—these are the elements usually associated with metropolitan growth. Yet the Greater Washington study found the causes and consequences of growth more complex than generally portrayed. The region is starkly divided by race, income, jobs, and opportunity. Economic and r...
The divisions in the region do not follow the traditional “city versus suburb” paradigm. Because the rough dividing line cuts through many counties and the central city itself, it is not simply a matter of strong suburbs surrounding a weak city, or even of strong outer suburbs ringing a weak urban and inner suburban co...
And the divide is growing. The population of Greater Washington grew from 3.8 million in 1990 to 4.3 million in 1998, with most growth occurring in the region’s western counties. Fairfax and Loudoun counties in Virginia gained respectively 82,000 people (a 13.5 percent increase) and 58,000 people (a 67 percent increase...
Increasingly the region’s jobs are located not just outside the central city but beyond the traditional urbanized area as well. As of June 1998, the District had a quarter of the region’s jobs—down from a third in 1990—while the suburbs outside the Capital Beltway had half of all regional jobs and two-thirds of all sub...
While jobs have moved westward, lower-income and minority families have tended to stay in the east. In 1996, for example, the District of Columbia and Prince George’s County had 70 percent of the region’s black population and 57 percent of the nonwhite population, but only 32 percent of the total population. In May 199...
Because school populations tend to mirror those of their neighborhoods, most schools with large shares of students from poor families are in the east. Of the 75 public schools with more than three-quarters of their students eligible for subsidized lunches in 1996, all but three were in eastern D.C. Of the 53 public sch...
The Greater Washington study reveals a wealthy metropolitan area out of balance, struggling with the consequences of little growth on one side and extraordinary growth on the other. As Myron Orfield, David Rusk, and others have illustrated, divisive growth patterns repeat themselves throughout the country.
These out-of-balance growth patterns are inextricably linked. Poor schools in one jurisdiction push out families and lead to overcrowded schools in other places. A lack of affordable housing in thriving job centers leads to long commutes on crowded freeways for a region’s working families. Expensive housing—out of the ...
This analysis yields several conclusions about the policies that shape a region. First, the location of affordable housing is crucial to metropolitan growth patterns. Low-income families in Greater Washington live in the east because they cannot afford housing elsewhere. Subsidized housing is confined mostly to distres...
Second, the composition of schools affects metropolitan growth. Because of the strong correlation between a school’s share of low-income students and its students’ performance on standardized tests—the higher the share of low-income students, the lower the test scores—families with the means to do so leave poorer neigh...
Federal and state spending programs, tax expenditures, and regulatory and administrative policies shape metropolitan growth patterns. Most highway funds in Greater Washington have been invested in the growing western suburbs, hastening decentralization without resolving the traffic problems faced by older communities. ...
Federal programs can also exacerbate the concentration of the poor. The housing voucher program, which now subsidizes rents for thousands of low-income families in Greater Washington, is administered by 10 separate bureaucracies. Although the housing market is fundamentally metropolitan in nature, such governmental fra...
The current smart growth discussion must move beyond questions of traffic congestion and the loss of open space to take into account the full array of forces that drive growth in some parts of a region and not in others. To curb sprawl and balance growth, regions must wrestle, first of all, with the problem of affordab...
The first step for metropolitan areas is to produce and preserve affordable housing in suburban communities. Since the mid-1970s, for example, Maryland’s Montgomery County has required new housing developments to make 15 percent of their units affordable to moderate-income families. This effort has allowed many communi...
Governance of the federal housing voucher program must shift to the metropolitan level. Competitions should be held to determine what kind of entity (whether public, for-profit, nonprofit, or a combination thereof) can do what it takes to make this program work, from counseling voucher recipients about housing choices,...
Second, metropolitan areas must make education a high regional priority. To some extent, making all schools in a region competitive and attractive depends on success in the housing arena. Creating stable, mixed-income neighborhoods will lead to a more diverse mix of students in many elementary and secondary schools. Ur...
Recent efforts by some state legislatures and by the judiciary to ensure funding equity between school jurisdictions also have enormous implications for metropolitan areas, where large fiscal disparities exist between central cities, declining older suburbs, and tax-wealthy developing suburbs.
The private and nonprofit sectors can also contribute. Corporations and philanthropic foundations can go beyond their laudable investments in technology, tutoring, and after-school programs in individual urban schools to make collective regional investments in reforms to turn around urban school systems.
Third, transportation strategies need rethinking. Although some states and regions are becoming aware of the spatial distribution (and economic and environmental impact) of highway spending, transportation reforms have not gone far enough. States and metropolitan areas need to connect their evolving plans for infrastru...
Transportation strategies must meet the real needs of firms and workers in rapidly decentralizing economies. In Washington, D.C., as in other metropolitan areas, express bus service from labor markets in central cities to job centers in suburbs is rare. Washington, D.C., and some states are using demonstrations to test...
Chicago has one successful reverse-commute bus system. Since 1986, the PACE system has been running buses from Chicago to suburban office parks, malls, and other work sites. It makes about 25,000 trips a day on more than 1,000 buses and vans and is augmented by private firms such as Suburban Job Link, which provides ce...
Finally, regional economic development strategies can leverage local and regional assets and improve the economic competitiveness of the entire region and its parts. The challenges of little growth in some communities have been seen by leaders in other jurisdictions as specifically urban or local rather than regional i...
Metropolitan economic development could take many forms. For instance, metropolitan areas could pool tax resources to pay for specific projects, particularly those that strengthen the economic position of the central city. Pittsburgh and Denver have used regional tax revenues to fund projects, like sports stadiums, cul...
Or metropolitan areas could design tax-sharing schemes to reduce the fiscal inequities between separate municipalities. Since the 1970s, Minnesota has maintained tax base sharing for the Twin Cities region, dedicating 40 percent of the net gain in the area’s commercial and industrial development to a metropolitan pool ...
States and metropolitan areas could also promote broader regional partnerships. In Seattle, for example, government, business, and civic leaders come together to discuss regional trade challenges, explore strategic options, and visit leading regions at home and abroad. In a globalizing economy, such partnerships help r...
As a fourth option, regional leaders could also establish joint business improvement districts (“BIDs”) for commercial corridors that cross jurisdictional lines. Many cities have created BIDs downtown and in other defined market areas. The BIDs give local merchants a forum to design and implement collective strategies ...
Sprawl is a simple term but a complex phenomenon. If American metropolitan areas are to experience a new kind of growth, leaders and citizens alike need to develop policy solutions that reflect the many forces driving development patterns.
The metropolitan agenda as currently defined is a big step in the right direction. It will alter some government policies, such as the lack of sensible land use restrictions and uneven highway spending, that have subsidized and facilitated sprawl.
Yet the current agenda is too limited in scope and application. It ignores the other side of the metropolitan equation: pervasive patterns of class and racial separation, of social and economic exclusion, of failing schools and economic disinvestment. It ignores the government policies that limit affordable housing in ...
Sprawl, in the end, is not just about too much growth. It is also about too little growth in many parts of metropolitan America. Understanding that linkage and bridging that divide is the key to resolving some of our major social and economic challenges.
A recently discovered 1826 letter written by President John Quincy Adams has been returned to the city after undergoing a painstaking preservation process in Vermont. The letter, discovered in April in the he basement of Quincy City Hall, received preservation treatments by Brown’s River Marotti Preservation Co.
A recently discovered 1826 letter authored by President John Quincy Adams has been returned to the city after undergoing a painstaking preservation process in Vermont.
The letter, discovered in April in the he basement of Quincy City Hall, received preservation treatments by Brown’s River Marotti Preservation Co. of Essex, Vt.
The letter was placed in an airtight protective cover after crinkles and folds were repaired.
The city was billed $500 for the work and is planning a full public display of the letter after a ceremony later this summer.
LOS ANGELES -- A 30-year-old woman was charged with attempted murder Thursday for allegedly beating a 92-year-old man with a brick last week, CBS Los Angeles reports. The L.A. County District Attorney's Office says Laquisha Jones, of Los Angeles, has also been charged with elder abuse, infliction of injury.
Jones entered a not guilty plea at her arraignment Thursday. Prosecutors asked that bail be set at $1.125 million.
The felony complaint includes special allegations that the defendant personally used a deadly and dangerous weapon, the brick, during the beating and that she badly injured the victim, identified as Rodolfo Rodriguez. He was visiting the U.S. from his native Mexico.
The charging document alleges that Jones was previously convicted of making criminal threats, in 2017. Jones was on probation from that case, CBS L.A. says.
Prosecutors said Jones attacked the elderly man with a brick on the evening of July 4.
Afterward, Rodriguez was taken to the hospital for medical treatment and Jones fled the scene, according to authorities.
Investigators identified Jones as the alleged assailant, and arrested her July 10.
If convicted as charged, she faces a maximum of 29 years in state prison.
He told his family he was walking down the street when he bumped into a little girl as he tried to walk around her.
The suspect, believed to be the girl's mother, allegedly threw Rodriguez to the ground and starting hitting him with her fists, then the brick.
A witness said she heard the suspect tell the victim to "Go back to your country."
The witness told CBS L.A. she took her phone out and got a photo of the woman, who appears to be holding a piece of concrete as her child stands nearby. Rodriguez isn't seen in the photo.
Rodriguez's grandson, Eric Mendoza, told CBS Los Angeles, "I'm just overwhelmed how anybody can do this to a human being at all. He's 92 years of age. There's no harm that he meant for you to treat him the way you did."
"Mr. Rodriguez is slowly recovering from this senseless and brutal assault," family attorney Luis Carillo said. "His family is appreciative of the community's outpouring of support and concern about his condition. The family has been inundated with media requests and is asking for a brief reprieve as they try to get ba...
A GoFundMe page has been set up for the Rodriguez. A $15,000 goal was quickly reached. The total at last check was more than $316,000.
Dear Going: Ask her directly if she’s still interested in trying therapy, noting that you didn’t want to assume anything based on her decision not to follow up. It’s OK to be a little more proactive; if she says yes, she’s still interested, then say you’re going to book an intro appointment with one of the choices on y...
Even fully grown and independent adults struggle with those last steps of choosing a provider and making the time to go. It’s significant that she found the courage to ask. Make it easy for her now.
Re: Therapy: Finding a therapist can be challenging. When I started considering therapy, my parents told me they would help me out if I found someone. I searched online through numerous therapists, weighing specialties, costs and personal reviews. I ended up getting so overwhelmed that I just quit looking. No one asked...
It wasn’t until I started to get worse that I got help from someone else I knew who inquired with their former therapist to get recommendations for me. I was in my 20s, and if it was difficult for me, it could be the same for your daughter.
Also, you might inquire with her or your doctor for recommendations.
Dear Anonymous: Persuasive firsthand experience, thanks.
Dear Carolyn: As much as I dismissed my husband when he brought it up, I think I have to admit I’m addicted to my phone. I’ve tried leaving it in other rooms, having a set time to put it away at night, etc., but I still find myself reaching for it all the time. Any tips on how to put the phone down and not worry about ...
Dear Phone Addict: Sure it is. Delete the apps you don’t need for work, put in controls so you can’t go back to them, and read this: https://bit.ly/2z11AIB. The people who developed some of these addictive features are themselves setting limits.
Everyone with a smartphone or with a kid with a smartphone, read this. Please.
Re: “isn’t really manageable”: You can silence alerts for all the other non-essential stuff and leave on for the work/family things. You have to want to do this, of course.
Dear Anonymous: Thank you. I’ve been doing the same.
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has announced he won’t seek re-election this fall after 40 years in the Senate. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is rumored to be planning a run for Hatch’s seat.
The 83-year-old Republican, the "scrappy son of a carpenter,” has served over four decades in Congress. His announcement comes a little over a week after the Republican tax plan that he helped craft was signed into law.
President Donald Trump has the “greatest and deepest amount of respect for Senator Hatch,” and is “very sad to see [him] leave,” the White House press secretary told reporters Tuesday, thanking Hatch for his role in getting the tax reform approved in Congress.
In his announcement, posted on Twitter, Hatch highlighted his most significant achievements in Congress, and said he would continue to work in public service once he retired.
Hatch said he also played a role in every confirmation of every current member of the US Supreme Court, and helped in the passage of the Trump administration’s tax reform cut bill.
Hatch joined the Senate in 1977. Of the current members, only Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), has served longer.
Former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney was considering running for Hatch’s seat, according to CNBC.
Unlike Hatch, who has been supportive of the Trump administration, Romney is an outspoken critic of the president.
"Senator Hatch has represented the interests of Utah with distinction and honor," Romney said in a Facebook post Tuesday. He did not address whether he plans to run for the seat though. He has until March 15 to file candidacy papers if he chooses to go through with it.
On average, more than 32 pedestrian-vehicle accidents causing injuries occur in Boone County each year.
Three separate pedestrian-involved accidents reported on Jan. 22 involved MU students, leaving a 24-year-old international student dead.
At about 7 p.m., 30-year-old Alvin Debrose struck 24-year-old Kui Zou, a visiting scholar in mechanical and aerospace engineering from China. Debrose did not see Zou crossing Providence Road at Carter Lane, according to a Columbia Police Department news release.
Zou was pronounced dead on the scene.
Around 9 a.m. that morning, 50-year-old Karla Geerlings, an MU senior library information specialist, struck freshman Amy Wasowicz at the intersection of College Avenue and Rollins Street, according to another CPD news release.
Wasowicz said she was crossing the street when she turned around to talk to her friends. Neither Geerlings nor Wasowicz saw each other coming. Wasowicz said her friends believed the driver was distracted at the time at the accident.
Wasowicz was transported to University Hospital, where she was treated for minor cuts and bruises and kept in observation for internal injuries overnight, she said.
Wasowicz said she’s now terrified to cross College Avenue.
Following the accident, she had to cross a busy street to walk to one of her classes on Jan. 27 but felt uncomfortable doing so.
At around 1 p.m., MU freshman Blake Ward hit 20-year-old Darryl Darling at the intersection of Providence Road and Nifong Boulevard.
Darling was crossing Providence on foot in violation of the pedestrian crossing signal when Ward crossed Nifong in his vehicle. Ward did not see Darling, according to the news release.
Darling was sent to University Hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.
“We, on behalf of (MU Chinese Students and Scholars Association), shall join with many other students and concerned citizens in expressing our deepest condolences to the family of the deceased member of our community, whose untimely death is truly a great loss to her family, her people and her country,” said the MUCSSA...
The MU International Center, College of Engineering, and the Friendship Association of Chinese Students and Scholars met on Jan. 30 to discuss helping Zou’s family. The MUCSSA is raising money to support their upcoming expenses.
MU graduate Xiaoyu Guo is the chairman of FACSS. He said the organization is hoping to raise a minimum of $10,000.
In preparation for Zou’s family’s arrival, Gou said they’re trying to find them accommodations, including somewhere to stay, meals and transportation. The family will be arriving sometime within the next two weeks.
Donations can be made from now until March 31. Checks should be made out to “Fundraising for Kui Zou” with the address 1133 Ashland Road Apt. 1407. Currently, donations can be made through an online wire. Donation locations around campus have yet to be determined.
Toxicology reports on Zou by the Boone County Medical Examiner’s Office are pending.
Drugs or alcohol did not impair any of the drivers in these three accidents.
In Boone County alone, 342 accidents involving pedestrians were reported within the past 10 years, killing 10 people. According to records, 94.5 percent of the accidents resulted in injuries. That’s an average of about 32 accidents causing injury per year.
According to MUPD’s records, 74 accidents have occurred off of College Avenue from 2010 to 2014. About 51 percent of those accidents occurred during 2010.
In October, City Council voted in favor of the College Avenue Safety Enhancement, which will install a barrier and fence along College Avenue, split by two mid-block crosswalks, according to an Oct. 1 Maneater article. At a cost of $750,000, the construction is slated to begin in fall 2015.

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