Here’s another little Havana/L.A. mashup about art and redevelopment. One of my other favorite places in Havana is the Callejón de Hamel, a small alley…
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Last month I had the privilege and rare opportunity to visit Cuba, traveling along with the FourStory crew, friends, and family. A dozen or so…
For a general introduction to the theory and practice of restorative justice, check out: Restorative Justice online. I sat next to an astrophysicist on the…
I recently attended a public lecture given by Andrew Simms, the Policy Director of the new economics foundation, a UK-based think tank that develops new…
In US cities today, our public safety officials typically respond to violence by locking people up, by moving the offender far away from their families…
From 2006 to 2008, at the tiny age of 22, Ashok Kumar served as a Supervisor of Dane County, in Madison, Wisconsin. He was endorsed…
What makes mathematicians good mayors? They solve problems! People using too much water? Taxi drivers taking folks to the wrong locations? Too many men acting…
This is a post from last September 2008, from Brazil. where I attended my first annual meeting as a Synergos Senior Fellow and had the…