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Happy Calvin's Dad day to those who celebrate
most media is framing this as a revenue/budget thing. mistake! metered/paid parking makes parking and driving better for drivers. you could set the money on fire and there would still benefits. focus on that. being able to invest it elsewhere is a bonus.
Rent. Older me sympathizes with Benny and finds every other character insufferable.
Man, Washington DC is so far behind. Small towns in Texas have more progressive parking policies!
Still, it's good to see the city catching up to progressive places like Bandera.
Anyone remember how the NYT's Gail Collins made a running gag for years of only ever referring to Mitt Romney as "Mitt Romney, who once drove to Canada with the family dog strapped to the roof of the car,"
Journalists, you all know what to do with potential new DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
Our Somali neighbors make Minnesota better.
This is incredibly bad for researchers and the public at large. Want to know if corporate entities are buying up land for a data center? Out of luck. Want to know if private equtiy is buying up homes in your neighborhood? NOPE! Just a massive loss for public transparancy and accountability. (2/x)
Nostalgia is an underappreciated driver of NIMBYism. My experience in Florida was that the older anti-development activists talked more about sadness and anger at losing the beloved (and somewhat imagined) small, quaint beach town of their memories than about any other reason for disliking growth.
Using detailed address-level microdata, we trace movement chains originating with the initial residents of The Central and document three main findings. First, we show the building generated a substantial number of local vacancies. We identify 180 specific addresses that became vacant because of moves into The Central. Scaling to account for data coverage suggests the new tower induced more than 500 local vacancies in the three years after construction, by setting off chains of moves. Second, while The Central units were expensive on a per-square-foot basis, the homes vacated by movers were significantly cheaper. Homes left behind by those moving into The Central were about 40% less expensive. Unlike much of the prior literature, which track the changing neighborhood characteristics of movers
Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
My wife and I have this thing where a few times a year one of us says unprompted to the other, "Remember *that* nectarine?" Because the answer is yes: it is a specific one we shared in 2010, and it tasted like landing in Oz and seeing the world in color.
Have also had this experience with a tomato.
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
My younger kid is still in Halloween mode. Wearing his pumpkin footie pajamas and demanding I make up songs about zombies at bedtime.
Gonna "yes, and" this a bit: while basically true, most people who claim they're doing this are still terribly un-strategic about it.
Far more common is landing cheap dunks on someone for kudos from those who already agree with you, while telling yourself you're doing it to persuade bystanders.
He's so close to getting it....
"It remains to be seen if this administration will take the unprecedented step of openly defying a court order, which could trigger a constitutional crisis"
-Every media outlet like a year ago
Picked the kiddo up from preschool by bike on Thurs and Fri, for the first time since November. Didn't tell him I was going to. We stepped out the door of his school and he squealed "BIKE!!!" in excitement as soon as he saw.
4-year-olds agree: best way to travel.
RETVRN
(The Pho place and the taqueria can stay)
If the most popular florist in town has ample parking available at 12pm on Valentines Day, it’s probably not necessary to have these parking mandates in our code!
One-size-fits-all parking for “retail” is arbitrary, hurts small businesses, and isn’t needed!
UPDATE: He was just released. This shows that just indiscriminately took someone because they were Latino. Their illegal tactics continue so we still need neighbors to patrol, observe, and support our immigrant community.
Good thread on an important wrinkle often missed by both sides of the "institutional investors buying up houses" story.
I know it's cheesy, but the bright sun, warm weather and trickling sound of melting snow everywhere feel symbolic today.
Winter isn't remotely over. But spring will come.
This movie was so disorienting to 14-year-old me. I vaguely knew it was an environmentalist film, so I went in expecting Ferngully or something. (Not in terms of tone or sophistication, but in terms of that kind of heavy-handed moralism.)
Need to stress that, like the Pretti killing, this terrorism is happening in extremely mixed use residential neighborhoods. Cafes and restaurants just down the street. The St. Paul Curling Club that's put out so many Olympians competing *this week* is like two blocks away.
Really important paper, 🧵, & results. No one, including me, has good solutions for this, but it's a huge problem for social science that we all know & expect that ~every paper with a null finding as the main result goes in the file drawer.
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
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No due process, no court dates, no access to lawyers, inhumane living conditions, and rampant abuse against detainees— all under the guise of immigration enforcement.
It's systemic torture in these concentration camps. The regime are deliberately pushing these people to breaking point for sport.
Thinking a lot lately of @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's magnificent book "A Paradise Built in Hell." Time and again people organize to take care of each other in response to disaster (and this is a non-natural disaster but similarly imposed on a whole community) in ways the state can't and won't.
I did an (optional) assignment like this in middle school: they called it the "third world diet" (it was the 90s) and it was 48 hours with a bunch of restrictions on what we could eat and a very limited number of calories.
I remember finding it illuminating.