Assigned Reading

Here’s an eclectic selection of items that I found worth reading in the last few days …
From Crosscut:
How the Northwest’s cities are coping with the homeless. 

Homelessness has ceased to be an orphaned issue for the Northwest’s major cities, as all of them have in recent years announced ambitious strategies to tackle the problem. Here’s a report card on how Vancouver, Seattle, Spokane, and Portland are doing so far.

 

Andrew Jackson sends the following from Forbes: 

The most unhealthy commutes in America.

From the Boston Globe:

The Downside of Diversity

A Harvard political scientist (Robert Putnam) finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth?