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Want to be green? Forget mass transit. Work at home.

Expanding mass-transit systems is a pillar of green and “new urbanist” thinking, but with few exceptions, the idea of ever-larger numbers of people commuting into an urban core ignores a major shift in the labor economy: More people are working from home.
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Amazon Eats Up Whole Foods as the New Masters of the Universe Plunder America

With his acquisition of Whole Foods, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has made clear his determination to dominate every facet of mass retailing, likely at the cost of massive layoffs...
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Joel Kotkin on California’s Descent into Socialism

California prides itself on being the resistance. Resist Trump, fight climate change, be progressive, it's all a bunch of nonsense. There's no way the left's ideas can really work. California has become a dangerous liberal experiment.
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