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Community Investment
What is a community? Most of us think of our own community in terms of: - Where we live – our hometown or neighborhood
- Who our neighbors are
- Where we work
- Where we shop and go to market
- Where our children go to school – play – where their friends are
- Where we worship
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News & Updates
By: Los Angeles Times Margot Roosevelt, Times Staff Writer
Berkeley and Palm Desert may be poles apart when it comes to politics. But the two cities are pioneering a new path to solar energy.
Pushed by these unlikely municipal bedfellows, California on Monday enacted a law that allows...
By: Los Angeles Times Sam Quinones, Times Staff Writer
Sydney Bradford doesn't own a car, so when she needs to shop, she jumps on a bus. Then she gets on another one, and another.
"To get to the nearest pharmacy, I take three buses," she said.
Bradford's odyssey reflects the...
By: Los Angeles Times Roger Vincent, Times Staff Writer
Developer Wayne Ratkovich had little idea 30 years ago when he and his partners bought an unwanted office building in downtown Los Angeles that a forgotten gem lay waiting.
The office market at the time was hot for glass and...
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Research & Insights
By: Los Angeles Times Ashley Powers, Times Staff Writer
As outlying sagebrush was quickly devoured by starter homes and chain stores, Las Vegas began grappling with the kinds of problems that long have vexed California: Crowded classrooms. Packed freeways. Not enough water....
By: Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA)
Washington, D.C. —A new survey by the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) shows that community banks recognize the importance of serving emerging consumer demographic markets. The 2008 ICBA Community Bank Survey:...
By: USA TODAY Charisse Jones and Paul Overberg
Parts of the Midwest experienced a modest population resurgence last year as the nation's housing crisis disrupted a long-term migration by Americans to the Sun Belt, a USA TODAY analysis of new Census data shows.
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Commentary & Opinion
By: Newsday (New York) BY ANDY DARRELL. Andy Darrell is vice president for Living Cities at the Environmental Defense Fund, a member of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Sustainability Advisory Board and a former member of the New York Traffic Mitigation Commiss
While the price of gas may drop a few cents here or there, it doesn't look like it's going below $4 a gallon again, and New Yorkers - from suburban commuters to business owners - are struggling to pay at the pump. The fuel...
By: Los Angeles Times Cary Lowe, Cary Lowe is a land-use lawyer and urban planning consultant.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent executive order certifying that California is in a drought and directing state agencies to start thinking about what to do about it is only the latest sign that a way of life built on cheap...
By: The Boston Globe SHIRLEY KRESSEL - Shirley Kressel is a landscape architect and urban designer.
WHILE POLITICIANS dithered about responsibility for the Rose Kennedy Greenway - an environmental mitigation for the Big Dig - a Greenway Conservancy formed, promising to save the public park with private money. But under...
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