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06.03.2026 02:12
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Excellent news, with more work to do…
Yesterday, Oregon's legislature voted to ban underfunded inclusionary zoning from the Portland metro area.
It's a big turnaround, and I hope a path forward for other states too.
www.sightline.org/2026/03/05/o...
also noise pollution in the U.S. is almost entirely from cars and it’s literally giving people heart attacks
I wrote an article about it because it’s so absurd
To all those who say “but air pollution is within legal limits”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not just middle of nowhere — many cities with fantastic and abundant trains also have major bus routes complementing or connecting them.
Honestly, a pharmacy on one of the most visible retail corners of the city, was a terrible sign of downtown’s vitality. I’m hopeful that something better will replace it.
Look at the central city riverfront of Portland. It's just so shocking and embarrassing that we tolerate this.
Amtrak's annual ridership was up 5%, hitting an all-time record high of 34.5 million rides nationwide over the last year. Amtrak Cascades also hit a record high, reporting 1.4% growth and coming in just short of crossing the million-ride mark for the year.
Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/24/a...
this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
This story is bonkers. A Pulte ally shared confidential Fannie Mae data with people at Freddie Mac and the people who flagged her behavior were fired.
Single smartest thing I think blue states could do is go on a MASSIVE home-building spree, bring down rents, and precipitate a massive multi-racial Second Great Migration.
Provide shelter for the sane and strip the lunatic states of their power in the House.
If I were running in next year's midterms, I'd be saying: Aussies are getting free electricity, and we're getting huge price spikes.
Because they built solar, and Trump is blocking it.
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
I’m pretty sure all housing automatically earns the bonus these days, following adoption of Inclusionary Housing
New: 9th Circuit Judge Thomas requests a vote for a full court rehearing of the Portland Nat'l Guard case.
Graber wrote in her dissent today: "I urge my colleagues on this court to act swiftly to vacate the majority’s order before the illegal deployment of troops under false pretenses can occur"
Really?
Law & Order and its various spinoffs have done more to erode the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments than the Supreme Court
“Inflation caused 2024” is a comfortable and appealing explanation for a lot of people - it reinforces their patronizing sense that most voters are selfish little piggies with no inner life, it promises that things will be back to normal next time - but there’s really not any evidence of it
Paris has achieved the goal of more than 300 “school streets”.
Lots of before & after pictures in this latest October 2025 update.
#paris #schoolstreets #15minutecity #urbanism #school #safety #safestreets #children
www.paris.fr/pages/57-nou...
Very challenging to manipulate the global cost of solar power
we don't even measure noise pollution in the US.
there's no possibility of mitigating it if we don't have good data.
most large european cities have noise reduction and action plans.
here's berlin's: www.berlin.de/sen/uvk/umwe...
We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.
Hey cool the NOAA guy who was found to have violated the agency's code of ethics for his role in Sharpiegate has been confirmed as the head of NOAA.
Once again reminding everyone that New York City has 1 million more people than Washington state and produces half the GHGs because driving cares is the strongest factor to driving them up
It proves the part of the point I agree with, and highlights the part where we disagree. This is a common journalistic approach to newcomers running for major executive office. Where we disagree is that I think it’s fine because the underlying question is fine.
Dude, I think you and I probably agree about 95% of the things in this race and 100% of whatever Fox News is talking about. I disagree with your point and have said so. Despite your “(mostly) earnest” profile tag, you’ve acted her like I’ve insulted your mother. Touch grass man.
You say evidence like there’s some peer-reviewed political science paper or something. Would love to see it 😂
The reporting is reasonable because the question being asked is reasonable. Someone with public sector leadership has a track record (good or bad) that is relevant and valuable. Even the failures inevitable in public office are valuable lessons for someone running for a high profile elected office.
If my preferred candidate for mayor had started at city council, maybe she’d be mayor now 😅 Public leadership experience doesn’t mean you’ll be a great mayor, but as with experience in anything else, it does increase your chances of electoral and administrative success.
