I applaud Seattle for starting a social housing program, but the number of applications (10,000!) shows no city in the U.S. can reasonably create enough deeply affordable homes via subsidies.
Minnesota, with its engaged citizens and strong sense of connectedness, is the top state in the country for residents’ quality of life, according to a recent study.
If builders no longer need to make leak-proof foundations and roofs, we can have cheap housing again.
I'm not sure "Local man invents unverified pseudoscientific reason to malign bike infrastructure" merits a news story.
More than 10,000 people applied for Seattle's social housing lottery after the social housing developer bought its first building. www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...
No. You worry about the slippery slope when you aren't already at the bottom of the chasm.
Now? An ideological Supreme Court is discarding settled precedent on a whim, bad reasoning and worse history, and stacking the deck further with unreasoned shadow docket fuckery. Fuck the slippery slope.
The “macOS Snow Leopard” upgrade version of policy.
Focus on efficiency and launch speeds.
Minnesota Star Tribune
As the Halifax Regional Municipality continues to expand its cycling network, a Dartmouth resident has spent the last two years documenting how many cyclists use a bike lane near his home.
Seattle’s first social housing building has just 150 apartments. The number of applicants to move in is a sign of the city’s need for affordable housing.
Absolutely infuriating elected officials have been slow boating legislation to clean this up.
It needs to be illegal, with punitive consequences to sell e-motos to kids.
Parents need consequences when they let their child ride them on streets.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Classic… “we’re making safety by making safety hazard” school of modern engineering!
Heidi Groover
Anything above peddle-assist needs to be registered like motorcycles.
Alessandro Rigolon
AkivaMCohen
Several Midwestern states ranked high in the State of the Nation Project’s newest report.
As summer approaches, police warn that modified e-bikes are putting kids in the ER. Here is why some "bikes" are actually illegal 50-mph motorcycles.
www.latimes.com
"Court-packing would create a slippery slope to the destruction of judicial review...To the extent Callais is a problem, it can be better addressed by steps such as banning gerrymandering. There are also better remedies for various other shortcomings of the Court," writes @ilyasomin.bsky.social.
