Tim W. Ferguson
Over 40 years in journalism, Tim W. Ferguson has tackled specialties ranging from Asian business to mutual funds to criminal justice. He’s written hundreds of articles and edited many more than that. He tries to apply principles of economics (such as allocation of scarce resources) to all of his work.
A current, longer project examines changes in land-use policies of the South Fork of Long Island from 1970-2000, as development and preservation collided, and how those actions shaped life today in “The Hamptons.” For posts related to this project, click here.
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When YIMBY Comes to a Southampton Hamlet
TIM W. FERGUSON – BLOG
Providing “affordable housing” in the midst of a price surge on the East End of Long Island, N.Y., is challenging enough—but the additional political wrinkles that come with each specific project were on display this month at a community-board meeting in the North Sea hamlet of Southampton town.
Our Hamptons Podcast – Interview
TIM W. FERGUSON – OUR HAMPTONS PODCAST
I discuss all things Hamptons with Esperanza and Irwin from the Our Hamptons podcast.
Last Shot at New Golf in Greater Hamptons
TIM W. FERGUSON – BLOG
When an 18-hole golf club—private and exclusive—opens in the next couple of years at the controversial Lewis Road luxury development in East Quogue, it will mark the latest and probably the last of 135 years of links building on and around the South Fork of Long Island.
Red Alert for Public Pensions
DISCOURSE MAGAZINE
The problem of pension shortfalls can be just as bad in red states as it is in blue ones.
Battle Lines Over Single-Family Zoning
DISCOURSE MAGAZINE
On both the libertarian right and the progressive left, the cause of ‘affordable housing’ is dividing political camps when it comes to legislation like California’s SB9.
The Left’s Long March Against Coors
DISCOURSE MAGAZINE
‘Brewing a Boycott’ describes 30 years of shunning with a flat result.
Moneyball 101: Reloading and Releaguing College Football
TIM W. FERGUSON – BLOG
“College football” is not only more like a professional game at its higher levels these days, but it is also as much of a business story as a sports one. At the moment, the phenomenon of NIL (name-image-likeness) payments to the athletes is focusing attention on Texas Tech University.
Help Preserve the Local News… All of It
TIM W. FERGUSON – BLOG
Initiatives such as Report for America are tackling the crisis of local (and state) journalism, which has seen the rapid depletion of reporting ranks at newspapers and other media across the country.
Why the Hamptons Has No Bike Path Like This
TIM W. FERGUSON – BLOG
Go to many affluent communities in North America and you notice some kind of safe cycling path. Not on the South Fork of Long Island.
Subdivisions That Sustained a Hamptons Middle Class
TIM W. FERGUSON – BLOG
A controversial twin development 40 years ago next to Quogue Wildlife Refuge required concessions but emerged a model for non-mansion housing.
It’s a Dog’s Life — You Wish
MILKEN INSTITUTE REVIEW
The 1970s were infamously the time in which the U.S. middle class began its long decline. But while their version of the American Dream has been going to the dogs since, the fate of pet canines in many of those same homes has vastly improved.
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The Shaping of the Modern Hamptons
From 1967, when a legislative ally of Gov. Nelson Rockefeller successfully carried a bill to extend the Sunrise Highway through the undisturbed farm-woodlands belt of the Hamptons to Amagansett, to 1999, when the Community Preservation Fund became law to preserve open space on Long Island’s East End through a surtax on property sales, a political and policy revolution reset the priorities of one of America’s choicest locales. This is a story of what wasn’t built–including that highway–as well as what was.
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