Why a green infrastructure agenda makes economic sense for the region
http://http://artvoice.com/issues/v10n17/news_analysis
The theory and practice of cities
Recent articles: policy, book reviews, presidential politics
- The geography of race, family history and experience
- A President for Cities?
- Expect Drilling, Hope for Wind
- Empty Parcels, Emptying Cities
- The Confederate Flag in Tampa
- The return of good ideas
- The oil crossroads: gold for highways, pennies for public transportation
- Hillary, Barack and Bubba: the politics of class
- Roads and destinations: federal highway policy dooms cities
- Ghost towns in sprawl land
- Class warfare in 2008
- Bad, bad money: Kevin Phillips and what campaign finance buys
- The 26 District's million-dollar question: Congress by personal checkbook
- Catholic identity politics: the problem of Rev. Jeremiah Wright
- The muddled candidates: economic discourse lost
- The $26 billion question: will the 44th president save the Great Lakes?
- McCain goes north: courting the Canadian vote
- Making Ralph relevant: progressive ideas, destructive candidacy
- He said, she said: rhetoric and references in 2008
- What it will take: governors must lead regional revival
- Choosing an identity: will the slave rescue drama of 1851 save Buffalo's Erie Canal heritage?
- Choosing icons: saving both Graycliff and the Calasanctius mural
Profile
- Bruce Fisher
- is the founding director of the Center for Economic and Policy Studies at Buffalo State College, where he is visiting professor of Economics. He lives in Buffalo, New York, where he served as deputy county executive from 2000 to 2007. He was Research Director for Citizens for Tax Justice, and spent a decade in Washington as a speechwriter and consultant for Democrats including the late Paul Simon, Joseph Biden, Carol Moseley Braun and Bill Clinton. He wrote Growth and Equity: Tax Policy Challenges for the 1990s. His essays and op-eds have been published in Artvoice, the Chicago Reader, the New York Times, the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Albany Times-Union, the Hartford Courant and other newspapers and magazines. Bruce Fisher writes a weekly column on politics and policy for Artvoice. He is also a commentator for the National Public Radio affiliate in Buffalo. He received his law degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and his BA and MA in history from the University of Illinois in Chicago, where he was a University Fellow.
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