The laundry bills alone would be frightening. In an ongoing controversy over the future of the smelly waste-disposal mountain next to I-94 just south of Michigan City, Indiana, mayor Sheila Brillson responded to a local newspaper article by saying, “I am not in bed with the landfill” (News-Dispatch, November 7).
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How do you undeclare war? Sam Smith quotes historian Michael Howard in the “Progressive Review” (October 31): “I hate having to say this, but in six months time for much of the world that atrocity [the destruction of the World Trade Center] will be, if not forgotten, then remembered only as history; while every fresh picture on television of a hospital hit, or children crippled by land-mines, or refugees driven from their homes by western military action, will strengthen the hatred of our adversaries, recruit the ranks of the terrorists and sow fresh doubts in the minds of our supporters.”
Where there’s sprawl there’s hope. Writing in the journal Housing Policy Debate, economist Matthew Kahn of Tufts University reports that black households in metropolitan areas with lots of sprawl (such as Chicago, Atlanta, and Detroit) “live in larger housing units and are more likely to own a home than observationally identical black households in less sprawled areas” (such as New York, Anaheim, and Portland). “In addition, as the metropolitan area’s sprawl level increases, the black/white housing gap closes for these measures of housing.”
