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Early on when I started my blog back in 2006, around the same time as this newsletter, I thought I knew everything and wanted to share it. Now I know nothing, or at least it feels that way. Of course that’s not really true but that’s sometimes how it feels when there’s just so much
A Flashback! That’s right we’re flashing back again to Episode 308 of the Talking Headways podcast with Sara Hendren discussing her book What a Body Can Do. Sara chats with us about how we think and talk about disability, reframing independent living, and designing a humane world for everyone. This is one of my favorites
Yesterday we shared a report from Brookings that looked at how State DOT’s could and should be more accountable in their transportation spending. It took the research team six months to catalogue how states select projects and what they found was that only nine states associate performance measures with long term planning goals and set
