Toni Gold writes about making Main Street work again:
Take back Main Street. Redesign it and reclaim it as a walkable, bikeable, green and transit-friendly promenade, with this key piece: Bring back a trolley, also called a streetcar or tram, on real tracks, running every 10 minutes back and forth through the heart of downtown, from the South Green to Keeney Clock Tower.
Susan Campbell follows up on the homelessness SNAFU with a column urging people to work on solutions, not bandages:
The capital city is bending under the weight of so many homeless people vying for too few services. Shelters are full, temperatures are plummeting, and a recent dust-up over where to put people who might otherwise be curled up under a bridge showed our ugly underbelly.
And the Remove Sunglasses at Tunnel blog deals with the very serious topic of gun control. Instead of staying inside and reading, you should really be outside enjoying the 55 degree weather. It won’t last.