“Street space is Cleveland’s most priceless possession. The street railway is the backbone of the traffic system because it uses street space most efficiently and economically.”

Today, 158 years later, we are still discovering “the depth to which political and official perfidy can descend.”

Philadelphia Rapid Transit, 1927. Assertions to the effect that “people preferred to drive” are guesses in the guise of explanations. A minority of motorists degraded streetcar service for the majority.

NATO has kept the peace for 77 years. He who betrays NATO gets no Peace Prize.

Streetcars cost less than stroads.

From the chief U.S. prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, a warning from history. July 26, 1946. To succeed, the fascists depend upon the willing opportunists. [Hjalmar Schacht was President of the Reichsbank (1933-39) and Economics Minister (1934-37).]

NATO has kept the peace for 77 years. He who betrays NATO gets no Peace Prize.

Kansas City, 1929. Assertions to the effect that “people preferred to drive” are guesses in the guise of explanations. In cities a minority of motorists degraded streetcar service for the majority. KCPSC: “Practically the only cause of delay ... is ... motorists who block [streetcars’] progress.”

NATO has kept the peace for 77 years. He who betrays NATO gets no Peace Prize.

To see DT’s latest racist post of the Obamas for what it is, we need the history DT wants to erase. ...

Inscribed in 1934 on the Department of Justice Building in Washington as a daily reminder to all who work there: If we permit the law to stop at the White House gate, there tyranny begins.

Transportation is a public problem to be managed in the public interest. One hundred years ago, Twin City Lines operated 900 streetcars along 523 miles of track.

NATO has kept the peace for 77 years. He who betrays NATO gets no Peace Prize.

Street space is a public resource to be allocated in the public interest. Some EVs use street space more efficiently than others.

Liquidation Sale on now at the Bezos Bargain Basement

A legacy betrayed. From the typescript President Kennedy read as he delivered his inaugural address, January 20, 1961.

NATO has kept the peace for 77 years. He who betrays NATO gets no Peace Prize.

The crackpots are back.

Public transport needs priority. ...

NATO has kept the peace for 77 years. He who betrays NATO gets no Peace Prize.

A new Book Review has been published in JTH! "Book Review: Human Porterage and Colonial State Formation in German East Africa, 1880s–1914 by Andreas Greiner", by Pedro Cerdeira. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... Don't miss it!

Protect the soil.

Public transport needs priority.

NATO has kept the peace for 77 years. He who betrays NATO gets no Peace Prize.

“A city of 40,000 population needs a dependable and responsible system of mass transportation.” And Waymos are no substitute for public transit.

NATO has kept the peace for 77 years. He who betrays NATO gets no Peace Prize.

In 1987 there was just one photo. That’s all it took.

Blame shifting as agenda advancement: how streets were redefined from places for everybody to high-speed motor thoroughfares. A story that begins in Kansas City. ... www.kcur.org/history/2026-01-29/kansas-city-jaywalking-crime-pedestrians-cars-right-of-way

In 1915 experts in law and in municipal engineering agreed with the Chicago Surface Lines: Streets are a public resource regulated in the public interest – the greatest good to the greatest number. By this standard, everyone else took precedence over motorists driving personal automobiles. ...

Try explaining 2026 to a time traveler from 1987.

NATO has kept the peace for 77 years. He who betrays NATO gets no Peace Prize.

NATO has kept the peace for 77 years. He who betrays NATO gets no Peace Prize.

Today the tech is amazing, but the geometry is the same.

A lesson in diplomatic prowess from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the United States. A tactful but withering reminder that this White House has betrayed its predecessors by scrapping at least two of the Four Freedoms that the USA once stood for.

A standard of truth long since abandoned. Senator Howard Baker helped lead the investigation of a popular president of his own party, and in the end most Republicans in Congress joined him.

Charlottesville tonight. ❤️

In the 1770s, “Minnesota tactics” made America great. On March 5, 1770, the Redcoats tried ICE tactics in Boston. They failed. “Minnesota tactics” defeated them. “Minnesota tactics” is the volunteerism of peaceful neighbors who care about each other. ...

Street space is a public resource to be allocated in the public interest. Some EVs use public street space more efficiently than others.

NATO has kept the peace for 77 years. He who betrays NATO gets no Peace Prize.

Street space is a public resource to be allocated in the public interest. Some EVs use public street space more efficiently than others. In 1924, to serve 140,000 people in Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, Twin Ports Electric Lines operated 100 streetcars daily along 110 miles of track.

NATO has kept the peace for 77 years. He who betrays NATO gets no Peace Prize.

“Are streets for people, or just for automobiles?” used to be a rhetorical question.

NATO has kept the peace for 77 years. He who betrays NATO gets no Peace Prize.

After a year of alarming threats and gratuitous insults directed at a true and faithful ally, we now have this: At Davos on January 21, DT said the US had “never gotten anything” from NATO. ...

Streetcars need priority. In 1929 the Kansas City Public Service Company operated 743 streetcars along 318 miles of track. It also operated 76 buses serving 57 miles of bus routes.

NATO has kept the peace for 77 years. He who betrays NATO gets no Peace Prize.

People, not vehicles.