Greg Shill

Torts, insurance, criminal law - all matter in the books, much less so in action here.

It’s wild that the predominant regulatory framework for managing this risk in the US is not vehicle or traffic law as such but rather zoning.

(more importantly, glad OP is okay)

Cover page of a book manuscript. Title reads “Cultivating the City: The Long Struggle to Put Land to Use” Under that it says “By Nate Ela”

This is going off into production today @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I can’t wait to share it with the world next spring. A story of land, property, and social policy, told via Chicago’s farms and gardens, past and present.

My article builds on existing work in the area, of course. But he’s doing a lot of the stuff - stuff that a mayor should have done long ago.

Another transportation reform I advocated at the city level specifically that Mamadani is picking up on. I wouldn’t downplay the budgetary impact. Whether it gets you $5B/year by itself is an open question (of price), but there’s a lot of revenue to be generated.
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Safer roads are possible.

We need an Odd Lots interview unpacking key aspects of this market: how prices are set and payments made, how reliable the insurer is, whether anyone has reinsurance, etc. @tracyalloway.bsky.social

Question from someone whose knowledge of submarine warfare is basically Things In Here Don't React Well to Bullets: why use a torpedo rather than an air to surface or surface to surface missile? If more effective, does that obviously outweigh the risk of potentially revealing the sub's position?

First I’ve seen any support from Matt Y; disappointing. He was boosted by Bernie and hard lefters as a left-populist; now more mainstream voices seem to be caving as he gains popularity. Again, echoes of someone else’s path to dominating his primary.

For a span, he was an independent contractor (soldier of fortune in the Los Angeles underground).

If you’ve been trying to rebalance into international but the market hasn’t been letting you in…

We need an Odd Lots interview unpacking key aspects of this market: how prices are set and payments made, how reliable the insurer is, whether anyone has reinsurance, etc. @tracyalloway.bsky.social

Now forthcoming in the Duquesne Law Review!

If you fell for this, prejudice might be why, but you're also not very bright.

The back-loading comp issue is itself a problem: often teacher pensions aren’t that generous and in some states they don’t get Social Security (yes, even after the change in the law last year)

Dutch skeets from the 1630s:

​Greetings from the Northwestern University Transportation Library, where Rachel just showed me the original!

The Platner pattern of getting caught doing something Nazi-adjacent, huffily disavowing it and then doing another wink-wink nudge-nudge signal to the extreme right is pretty much the Trump 2016 playbook

I recently discovered (aka was algorithmically fed) the profile of Brian Calley on Facebook. Constant Great Lakes poasting, it’s beautiful.

The Third-Largest Coffee Chain in the U.S. Actually Sells Very Little Hot Coffee By focusing on customizable cold energy drinks, Dutch Bros thinks it has the formula to attract younger customers.

It’s pretty amusing that the business of the number three coffee monger is energy drinks (for number one it’s milkshakes). www.wsj.com/business/hos...

Transit agencies will literally hire bus bunnies instead of going to therapy (aka running more buses).

He seems to be the opposite of that genuine problem. I think he, and the segment he represents, has agency and could choose a different path.

That rhymes a fair bit with what I heard in segments on the right re: their ‘16 nominee.

The Tr*mpification of the hard left continues.

In California, About the Only Way to Get a House Is to Inherit One Nearly one out of every five property transfers last year was made through inheritance, a record for the state and double the national share.

“At more than $18,000 a year, Greenside’s property-tax bill is far higher than the $1,100 his aunt paid annually. But because he has no mortgage payment, Greenside is still saving money compared with paying rent for a smaller apartment in the city, he said.”

www.wsj.com/economy/hous...

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You might enjoy Chicago’s millennial-bait radio

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I enjoy this newsletter. This week, I wondered if the Substack app would automatically read it out loud in a British accent. Blissfully, the answer is yes!

Also cobranded credit card.

This is a great post. Commoditizing rote tasks makes the bespoke ones more valuable; in the case of contracts, to my mind that’s a case for (among other things) more commercially-minded legal training.