A lot of the inspiration for this blog comes from the following: Cincinnati:

5chw4r7z
cincyopolis
diggingcincinnati
handeaux
hoperatives
queencitydiscovery
urbancincy

Data Science/Open Data/Mapping/Machine Learning/Civic Data Hacking:

FiveThirtyEight
FloatingSheep
Goeff Boeing
IQuantNY
Pricenomics

Urbanism/Urban Design:

Andrew Alexander Price
CityLab
Detroit Urbanism
GranolaShotgun
GCBL
Old Urbanist
StreetsBlog - Ohio
Rebel Metropolis
Strong Towns
Urban Kchoze

Travel/Art/Biking/Misc:

Jakub Rozalski
Nutmeg Country
Simon Stålenhag