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State and Local Government Law
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NoteVol. 100 · Iss. 4
Turning Around America’s Traffic Crisis One Roundabout at a Time: Why More Roundabouts Means Safer Roads and Fewer Automobile Deaths
Introduction Henry Ford’s early twentieth-century breakthroughs in automotive mass production merged the United States into the fast lane toward motor vehicles becoming a dominant…
Neven Sussman -
NoteVol. 87 · Iss. 2
Elderly Drivers: Balancing Public Safety with Permanent Personal Mobility
Anna Badaracco, twenty-three years old, was walking along the sidewalk at two o’clock on a Monday afternoon in August 2006, when a white Lexus…
Garrick F. D. Aplin -
CommentaryVol. 88 · Iss. 1
A Challenge to Sustainable Governments?
Sustainability, an environmentally-friendly term that previously incited political unrest, economic uncertainty, and even emotional outrage, has become quite commonplace. In federal, state, and local…
Keith H. Hirokawa -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 4
A Theory of Poverty: Legal Immobility
The puzzle of why the cycle of poverty persists and upward socioeconomic mobility is so difficult has long captivated scholars and the public alike.…
Sara S. Greene -
ArticleVol. 91 · Iss. 5
Why Do Cities Innovate in Public Health? Implications of Scale and Structure
Big cities have frequently enacted public health regulations—especially with respect to tobacco use and obesity—that go beyond the state and federal regulatory floors. That…
Paul A. Diller -
ArticleVol. 91 · Iss. 4
From Cautionary Example to “City on a Hill”: Revitalizing Saint Louis May Require an Innovative Regional Taxation Model
To grasp the depth of the challenges facing many American metropolitan areas (“metros”) today, it is necessary to consider these metros in the context…
David Libonn -
NoteVol. 98 · Iss. 4
Reimagining the “Team Four Plan” With an Eye Toward Community Collaboration and Private Capital
This Note seeks to explore the historical underpinnings of the Team Four Plan by considering St. Louis’s dramatic economic decline alongside a citywide panic regarding the fate…
Morgan Seim -
NoteVol. 98 · Iss. 3
It’s Five O’Clock Everywhere: A Framework for the Modernization of Time
This Note discusses existing legal procedures by which the current system of time could be modified to adapt to contemporary social changes and reduce…
Ryan Deal