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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Chicago/Indy: A Tale of Two Blizzards
Going forward I’ll be posting selected articles over at New Geography. The first installment appears there today, so please be sure to check out “A Tale of Two Blizzards“. It contrasts the approach to government services and taxation taken by Indianapolis and Chicago, and how both of them are under pressure in the current economy.
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Topics: Public Policy, Strategic Planning
Cities: Chicago, Indianapolis
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Man, and I was really looking forward to reading an article entitled “Chicago: A Declaration of Indianapolis”.
Thanks – pretty stupid error.
Congrats on the writing gig. Something you considering taking seriously going forward? I know you have a career already, but you have great writing talent so I think you could probably accomplish a lot in that area.