The US Census reporte preliminary numbers for their 2020 count on Monday and it reported that New York would be losing a House seat (and...

Albany, NY is a city of 98,000 (pending 2020 Census numbers) sitting along the Hudson River 130 miles north of New York City. It is the...

The devastation that is unfolding in Texas is heartbreaking to watch and infuriating to know that it could have been avoided. This post...

If you've been watching the Republican National Convention this week, you may have noticed a recurring theme of speakers who have been...

The following is a repost from Nov 2019. Fill out the Census today to make sure that your community gets the resources it deserves. The...

Regular readers of this blog will remember a post I wrote back in February imagining what a car-free Lark Street would look like. Then...

While the novel coronavirus keeps most of us holed up at home, sustained by an ever increasing deluge of deliveries of all kinds, some of...

You may have seen some of the photos circulating online on cities previously suffocating in pollution now with beautiful blue skies and...

At 36, I've now had a job and been employed for nearly 20 years (briefly unemployed in 2008 after the computer store I worked at during...

First, let's get the food binge out of the way. For the first time today I used the Instacart.com service and ordered from Market 32....

Albany residents got a first glimpse at their newly renovated and expanded high school over the weekend, and from the pictures it looks...

Think about some of the most magical urban places that you've visited in your life. Maybe it's a lovely town square in Milan, or a...

First came the hot yoga studio, then the smoothie place, the brewery, and the dog walking service. Now the latest trend in gentrification...

If you have been paying attention to the Trump administration, you're probably suffering from spinning head syndrome or whiplash. The...

Since the end of the Great Recession in 2010, one of the big stories in demographics and urban planning has been the trend of Millennials...

Lark Street between Washington and Madison Avenues in Albany is a popular mixed-use business district in the middle of an existing...

Another day, another complaint about nearly any transit system from friends on Facebook who live here in Albany or elsewhere across the...

When most people learn about what I do, the first words that come to their mind (and out of their mouth) are usually one or more of the...

Ask nearly anyone what constitutes a milestone and they will probably respond that it is an important event that marks the end of one arc...

Of all the topics inside and out of my professional life one that comes up directly or indirectly more than almost any other is...