MIT invented the fusion reactor now being built in Virginia. This is a common story. Massachusetts: where great companies are born and never raised.
Silicon Valley runs on a pro-worker California law from 1872: the noncompete ban.
It's time to bring it here.
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Vice Mayor Burhan Azeem
It's so weird, because if you look at the surrounding land use, it's grocery stores and banks...adding a TJs wont overwhelm the area.
"The reluctance of some communities to expand their housing supply comes at a painful cost...
If lawmakers on Beacon Hill don’t want this decision to be made by referendum, they’ll do their job and take up the issue themselves.
The time for incrementalism is over."
Since 2023, roughly 7,000 of the approximately 30,000 housing units permitted in Massachusetts have been located in MBTA Communities zoning districts.
Mr. Minogue has campaigned to repeal the very law helping produce those homes.
“Are we kinda being pricks?”
massachusetts local land use boards are out of control
massachusetts local land use boards are out of control
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"Eliminating minimum parking requirements" does not mean "eliminating parking."
After Minneapolis removed parking minimums, citywide parking ratios dropped from 1.0 to 0.73 spaces per unit. Walkable areas often built little parking, while others built closer to prior levels.
For years, duplexes, townhomes, and other “missing middle” homes were almost absent from Spokane’s housing pipeline.
After zoning reforms expanded options, missing middle housing rose from just 3–4% of permits to 20% of all residential permitting in 2025.
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Missing middle housing — once a mere sliver of residential permits issued by the city of Spokane between 2020 and 2022 — surged to nearly 20% of all residential permitting in 2025.
