RealClearHistory.com

Part of my Marine Vietnam Blog got picked up by Real Clear History.com on Tuesday October 30, 2012. I have no idea how the found it but it was nice that my story was chosen. My 15 minutes of fame.

Or perhaps it is closer to 5 minutes. They titled the article:

Life of a Marine on Hill in Danang 


realclearhistory.com

http://hullingermarine.blogspot.com/2010/05/ocs-officers-candidate-school.html

The Third Coast

Table of Contents A quarterly magazine of urban affairs, published by the Manhattan Institute,edited by Brian C. Anderson. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

JOEL KOTKIN The Third Coast From Brownsville to Tampa Bay, an economic powerhouse emerges. RICHARD CARSON/REUTERS/LANDOV Houston’s bustling port is now America’s most lucrative. In the wilds of Louisiana’s St. James Parish, amid the alligators and sugar plantations, Lester Hart is building the $750 million steel plant of his dreams. Over the past decade, Hart has constructed plants for steel producer Nucor everywhere from Trinidad to North Carolina. Today, he says, Nucor sees its big opportunities here, along the banks of the Mississippi River, roughly an hour west of New Orleans by car. “The political climate here is conducive to growth,” Hart explains as he steers his truck up to the edge of a steep levee. “We are here because so much is going on in this state and this region. With the growth of the petrochemical and industrial sectors, this is the place to be.”  Click to Read the Article city-journal.org

Postcard of the Day, Part 1

Today, October 29, 2012, is the official publication date of Picturing Illinois: Twentieth-Century Postcard Art from Chicago to Cairo, by John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Providing rich historical and geographical context, Picturing Illinois illustrates the postcard’s significance in American popular culture and the unique ways in which Illinoisans pictured their world.

Over the next two weeks we will feature one postcard per day from the book. The above image is State Street subway ca. 1945.

http://www.press.uillinois.edu

http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/37ane8xg9780252036828.html

Happy Halloween

from The Pumpkin Master Ray Villafane  

villafanestudios.com/gallery/the-pumpkins-2

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Cost of Air Travel by Airport

The cost of Airline Travel from your local airport is an important function of economic development. Lower air fares is good for attracting and keeping business. The article below explains the large variance in costs.

A community is wise to try to attract low cost airlines to their region. I live in two small markets - Peoria, Illinois and Sarasota, Illinois. In both communities you can travel to larger airports for lower air fares - to Chicago or Tampa.  It would be better for the economies of both communities if they could attract a low cost carrier or even start a new one.


"Why is my airport so expensive?" I hear this question all the time, and here's the answer. The airfare you purchase to fly from your airport is expensive because the facility is A) Small and a fairly long drive to the nearest larger airport, or B) There's little or no competition, especially low-cost airline competition, or C) both.

Let's take a look at the latest list of "most expensive" airports in the U.S., as defined by the government's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS); the numbers crunchers there base this list on a 10 percent sample ofairline tickets sold during July, August and September of 2009.

Click to read the article

ULI Open Space Awards Video

Nice Video on the five winners 

for Open Space Improvement. 

Click to see the video.

Fewer Government Workers

How do governments cut their payrolls?

THIS week’s print edition of the Economist features an article on how fiscal austerity has been leading to declining government employment throughout the rich world. In most countries, this is not because the state is firing its workers, but because it is failing to hire replacements for those who leave.

Click to read the article in the Economist.