The Future Of Menial Jobs - From THE BOSTON GLOBE Monday, July 10, 2000 BY ALEX MARSHALL PARIS -- If you're hankering to watch a movie after midnight here, you don't searc

A Tale of Two Towns - - Kissimmee versus Celebration and the New Urbanism [Excerpt From Chapter One] "When you're building your own creation, Nothing's better than re

Mergers Or No Mergers, It's Time To Re-Regulate The Airlines - I write this from the terminal of the Boston International Airport. I am about to board a small prop plane to Harrisburg, Pa, the state capitol. Given

Why We Shoot Each Other - By Alex Marshall April 2001 Some school kid will shoot some other school kids again soon, and thus provide an adequate "hook" for this article

Wrestling the Beast called Sprawl - Written for the Conference: "Critics Talk About Smart Growth" May 10-11, 2000 at The Pocantico Conference Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Don't Let Kirn Library Fly Away - Monday, August 16, 1999 COLUMN FOR: The Virginian-Pilot BY ALEX MARSHALL At the end of the movie Casablanca, Ingrid Bergman pleads with Humphre

Whither Virginia Beach? - FOR PORT FOLIO MAGAZINE THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1999 BY ALEX MARSHALL Virginia Beach. The promised land. It glistens in the sun, a shimmering me

It's Dangerous To Cycle in The City. That's Too Bad - How Many Cyclists Can and Should Fit on City Streets? The ferocious competition for a smidgen of asphalt on Manhattan streets might be best appreci

The Computer And The City - Written in 1995 by Alex Marshall When the computerized letter sorter at the central post office in Washington, D.C., can't read the handwriting

Guns Don't Kill People; Cars Do. Or At Least Not As Many - On Foot Or On Wheels, Facing The Threat Whether you walk, drive or bicycle on your daily rounds, are you more in danger of getting killed from a b

Whatever the politics, Bush's plan on immigration reform is a good start. - A New Deal For Some Of The Region's Labor Force The thousands of people here illegally from Mexico, Poland, Ireland, Colombia, China and other cou

Urban Renewal in Norfolk - What Was Lost: A lot. What Was Gained: Not Much. BY ALEX MARSHALL Tuesday, August 10, 1999 The 1950s was about new stuff, not old stuff