Nicole Gelinas, Washington Times
California’s indefinite delay of its high-speed rail spine isn’t a failure of a technology that works well from France to Japan. For advocates of a Green New Deal or even a less ambitious vision of a less car-dependent America, it’s even worse than that. It’s a failure of progressive Democrats to execute big, complex infrastructure projects — the last legacy of the Obama stimulus. Most new governors use their inaugural State of the State speech to announce grand plans. New California Gov. Gavin Newsom used his to end a grand plan. Read more here....
Joel Kotkin & Wendell Cox, City Journal
When Amazon decided to locate its second headquarters in New York, it cited the supposed advantages of the city’s talent base. Now that progressive politicians have chased Amazon out of town, the tech booster chorus has been working overtime to prove that Gotham, and other big, dense, expensive cities, are destined to become “tech towns” anyway, because of their young, motivated labor pools. That argument may sound great to New York Times readers or on local talk shows, but it is increasingly untrue. Read more here....