ICYMI: Suburban development costs 38% more in upfront public costs & 10% more in ongoing costs than compact development, PLUS has only 1/10th the tax revenue per acre, confirms report summarizing 17 studies. Via @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social
The blunt truth? Sprawl is heavily subsidized by ALL of us.
![Quote from Washington Times editorial board
"[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:222p42fegwhwfyrc3gqam76j/bafkreib4nkrafaic6rpwa7wyeesnlmjeu23sshxjjpvqtr33wk7ztuxb2y)
Quote from Washington Times editorial board "[Radical liberals] don't realize that, when they express contempt for the man who holds the country's highest office, they reveal their contempt for the Americans who put him there."
Uh no...we definitely realize it.
Okay, now they’re all saying it? Am I going crazy? @maddow.msnbc.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social @msnbc.com
All the election night coverage is great and energizing, but genuine question for @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social - is saying that people are waiting “on line” vs “in line” a regional dialect or what’s going on there? The people need to know. #msnbc
New York City map of which areas voted for Cuomo and which for Mamdani.
New map of the cool parts of NYC just dropped.
Sports stats that are stats simply because of circumstance are bad. Of course everything is a first when it’s your inaugural season. It’s giving “last first Tuesday of senior year” energy. Call me when we’re breaking records.
There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man.
Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent.
We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate.
My latest piece.
If you think making the buses slower while introducing parking fees is a bone headed approach, @bikesd.bsky.social was quick to create an email template to send to the mayor. Just click the button on this page! www.bikesd.org/expand-the-b...
Wait, free parking for city staff too? That seems unfair.
I am a street camera extremist. Put a robot on every single intersection; ticket every single driver who speeds or runs a red light, every single time.
Would be a MAJOR tourist attraction if they did this to the 163 in Balboa Park.
And cars would still have the 5, 805, 15, Park blvd, Florida Dr, Pershing Dr, 4th, 5th & 6th Aves etc.. to cross N/S
#sandiego #safestreets
Positive homelessness news via Tigist Layne: “A narrative has been built up around this demographic that they are more service resistant. We have not found that to be the case at all. Clients are showing up and working with us every day.”
housing affordability is one of the few issues where i feel like the median lefty is just wrong in their diagnosis of the problem.
If 48,000 drivers receive speeding tickets in two months, the problem isn't too many speed enforcement cameras. It's too many speeding drivers.
1,8,10
@labeler.urbanism.plus label
NEW: AOC in Vegas.
Major challenge to Dem leadership🔥
“If you’re willing to fight for someone you don’t know, you’re welcome here. But I will say this: Those leaders on either side of aisle willing to put their fellow Americans down so they can get ahead; they may best find a home somewhere else.”
And that’s on that 😌
I would love to see the council push back more when their policies aren’t being followed. They can pass good legislation all they want but if not implemented well, then 🤷🏼♂️. Need a stronger council more willing to fight back, IMO.
Maddow went on an emotional and powerful rant against her own network after the cancellation of shows hosted by colleagues Joy Reid, Alex Wagner, and Katie Phang.
US tipping culture baffles me. You order your meal, the server does their job, and at the end, you’re stuck inflating the bill out of guilt because owners won’t pay proper wages. Why is this on us? Price the food honestly, pay staff fairly, and end this nonsense already.
That surreal dystopian vibe when an oligarchy stages a coup in plain sight, while millions tune in for the Super Bowl, caught up in the spectacle of capitalism gone wild.
A million cars have disappeared!
“Congestion pricing [in New York City] began on January 5. One month in, traffic is down, public buses are faster, and transit ridership is up.” Via @fastcompany
No surprise for those of us championing decongestion pricing for a long time. We know it works.
But on Friday, as the city marked a month since the fires, Bass suggested that Soboroff would have a more limited role, leaving him primarily in charge of rebuilding the Palisades’ historic business district and the area’s library, park and recreation center. “He is focused on the rebuilding of Palisades Village, the historic Palisades Village,” Bass said. “But we consider Steve to be the overall ambassador to the Palisades.” Soboroff — who will earn $500,000 over three months, all of it paid by philanthropic groups — said that his role has not changed and that he continues to work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other government entities.
Bass and her team declined to identify the specific sources of the philanthropic funds. A source with knowledge of the arrangement, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said the $500,000 will come from three foundations. Randy Johnson, a longtime real estate executive who worked on the development of Playa Vista with Soboroff, will report to him on recovery efforts, receiving $250,000 during the same time period, also from charitable organizations. On Friday, asked about the mayor’s remarks, Soboroff said he does not view his role as diminished in any way. “I’m doing exactly what I was doing with the same lack of authority,” he said. Soboroff, who raised his family in the Palisades, said that while he doesn’t have formal authority, since he isn’t a city employee, he does have the trust of the community.
This is so shortsighted. We're paying these two people for three months — what can even be accomplished in three months? — when we should be hiring city employees to work on a plan for rebuilding Palisades infrastructure that becomes the new model for how we plan and build *all* LA infrastructure
NEW: There's been a 51-percent drop in injuries an a 55-percent drop in crashes year-over-year within the congestion relief zone in just the first 12 days of the program. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...
Anyone who wants to bring back the cars is just plain wrong and the list of reasons why just keeps growing.
Trumps America, am I right? What fresh hell. #target #laundrycriminals
Trump is deep in the pocket of Big Pharma. He doesn't care whether Americans can afford their meds, only that Big Pharma continues to make massive profit.
This won’t help you. It won’t help your family. He did this because it helps Pharma CEOs.
Post from 'Rev. Benjamin Cremer' states, "If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have deeply, deeply misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ."
So many have not learned them at all.
Good for him! I can’t say I blame him.
