New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the New York State Assembly, argue in today’s New York Times that the World Trade Center “redevelopment process was always intended to be a public-​​​​private collaboration.” They urge the Port Authority, the public agency that owns the site, to further assist with the project’s finances. […]

Some of the links I’ve collected from around the web from August 12^th to August 20^th.