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"the liberals thought Notice to Airman was racist to they changed it to Notice to Air Missions" ... Racist?
The number of cars shown on the Supertrain do not seem sufficient for its amenities. youtu.be/hrot4rRCBwE
Getlink (née Eurotunnel) operates 775m motorail trains for LeShuttle.
Ah, but maybe the rate of manufacturing jobs will be higher, because in addition to shrinking the manufacturing sector, they're also shrinking the labour force.
(But is it a great plane?)
Not a bad price.
Feelings don't care about your facts.
Speaking of people who did nothing wrong, Abbe Lowell makes a pretty convincing case that, if true, means Letitia James did nothing wrong. I feel like this is underdiscussed when considering what Pulte has to say about Cook.
I think it's pretty clear that Duffy and Zeldin did nothing wrong, even if you think this form of very common fraud is wrong. DeRemer-Chavez on the other hand, who can truly devine the intent of someone buying a second home in Phoenix next to a golf course? Sadly, there's no way to truly know...
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It me. Me the income sensitive.
SMART Local 645 delenda est.
Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform. Fare reform.
My impression was that Harvard really was going to settle but balked when the administration suddenly came back with additional demands?
(That's my anecdotal impression from having to go to places like Meadowvale and Barrhaven.)
Toronto suburbs tend to have much better pedestrian connections and a much better tighter packing of housing than the US southeast. (Ottawa though seems to do better at requiring mid-block walkways between streets that provide linear pedestrians paths and has more circles rather than cul-de-sacs.)
I did all this posting, and I didn't even mention the charter angle... (With segregated housing, school choice, school integration and school transportation are at best a trilemma.)
Man, Nilo wasn't kidding when he said California basically doesn't have school buses... Jesus Christ...
lol nice
We have that. For now.
That's right.
We no longer use race for school assignments, but continue to use student performance and income as part of school zoning. How these track with race and ethnicity is an exercise left to the reader. (We no longer aim for balance qua balance on these factors but rather avoiding high concentrations.)
Wait, your school district had 26 elementary schools, and only 2 had school bus service?!
If you're familiar with adverse selection and death spirals in insurance markets, school bus routes seem to work like that. Meandering roads lead to long school bus routes → Long routes cause families to defect to driving → Routes need to serve more pupils → Routes get longer → Long routes cause...
The school bus stop that serves my neighbours has like 15-20 students get off at a single stop, but that's also because the bus stop has to be placed on a dangerous arterial road instead of outside homes because all the other streets are cul-de-sacs or scribble-scrabble.
(More realistic first step to both the walkability and busability problems is probably pedestrian easements.)
Anyway, even if the US legalized schools that fit in residential areas, US neighbourhoods aren't walkable, so you still can't have a large walk shares. But they also aren't busable. Someone asked me how to make school buses work somewhere like this, and I said "first burn down all the buildings":
(2) in the 1970s, we started taking school segregation seriously, so even if the US made it legal again to build new neighbourhood schools that actually fit in neighbourhoods, US housing segregation means if you zone the school so students can walk to it, it probably won't be racially integrated.
Anyway, there's a housing angle to everything, so remember that (1) since 1964, the recommended size has been 10/20/30 acres + 1 per 100 students for grade, middle and high schools in the US, so we've effectively made it illegal to build schools you can walk to and instead have massive campuses, and
There's also obviously huge geographic variation within the US, so when I first learned that there were places where the auto share of school transportation was 50% was alone shocking to me—and then I learned the *national average* was 50%. It was as though I grew up in another country.
(1) doi.org/10.1016/j.pm... (2) mcdonald.web.unc.edu/wp-content/u... (3) My combination of 1 and 2 plus mcdonald.web.unc.edu/wp-content/u...
Bus is down 25% from 35 years ago, which is a LOT, but what's truly nuts is the utter collapse in active transportation to school. You can basically see the collapse 50 years ago go straight to car and then the fall in bus go straight to car 15 years later.
Strange, I was told the key was amping up the verbiage in New York Times headlines
Yes, because the reason London invented fare capping wasn't for the indigent, it was because the Tube's zone system is so complex that passengers would otherwise not know in advance whether to get a pass or not. In New York, with its simple flat fare, it's pointless.
The pardoned Jan 6 rioters want to be PAID FOR THEIR PROSECUTIONS www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
That time Toronto tried to build a six storey apartment building on its own land and discovered that the R zoning on indoor amenity space was a problem, but just did a site-specific exemption instead of fixing the underlying issue. Why does no one build mid-rises? 🤷 www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...
(There are some local toll discount programmes where you need to be a resident in a local area, but these are weird places like Staten Island, the Rockaways and Long Beach. But the major tolls—Thruway, Port Authority, other MTA tolls—just require a NY account, not NY residency.)
FYI there is no requirement to be a resident to get the lower EZPass NY toll rates. Anyone with an EZPass NY Service Center account qualifies. You do not need to open an EZPass in your home state, and NY actually has better terms than most states with no monthly fee or local use requirement.
That's actually an impressively large toll. How did you manage that?
The UK is renationalising its railways and facing strong political pressure to renationalise water utilities, while passenger rail and water utilities are almost always in public ownership in the United States already. In both countries, investor-owned roadway concessions are rare.
Can neither confirm nor deny.
"WHO DID THIS? I WANT TO FIND OUT NOW!"
Vitally important thread.
The third rail of copyediting.
"the MTA Metro-North Railroad and MTA Long Island Rail Road railways"
Other Swedish-speaking Finn content: bsky.app/profile/leos...
The President has been consistent on this matter:
It's true. The resemblance is uncanny.
It's just one big account funded by Soros.
yes that is what i sound like when things are going well on merits
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
Everyone else sharing shibboleths but me:
Me: "US state flags are mostly terrible and should be replaced." [monkey paw curls]
I see they Cracker Barrelified the new Mississippi flag.
Last day officially on the job for Professor Mark Brawley. A leading scholar and renowned teacher of international political economy, he's retiring after thirty-five years of service as a member of the faculty at McGill. Congratulations to him on a well-earned retirement, and best wishes for it!
Big presume.
I mean, he's more likely to visit you now given he can also go to College Park, right?
He's still not going to visit you.
Your dad would not be proud of you for moving to Canada.
Medians appear to be 120k and 44k.
Average is 61k per each in lower houses and 168k in upper houses, for a weighted average of 90k. ballotpedia.org/Population_r...
You'd qualify for a work permit for NAFTA professional if you found someone in Toronto that needed to hire a US lawyer.
Only stereotype
Agreed. Note that the train schedule is annoying with the last train leaving Québec before 6.
VIA Rail runs 5 trains a day, and Keolis/Orléans Express runs something like 16 buses per day that are often cheaper, more reliable and faster than the train.
Anyway, if you're planning a trip of more than 2 nights, do not go to Québec (or do not go _only_ to Québec), as you'll get bored.
*being Good God, I cannot type today...
Hi! White guy here rudely answering a question that wasn't addressed to him: In the general case, I'd say this depends on trip length. Québec beign smaller means it takes less time do most of what you'd want to do. In the specific case, Montréal has better online urbanist nerd crap to check out.
I honestly think that the feelings of anglophones in the ROC have gone from antipathy towards English language restrictionism to apathy towards anglophone Quebecers. It seems the default attitude is approaching "well, that's your fault for choosing to live there, Québec gonna Québec".
My kingdom for an edit button.
*Bill 21 Gotta keep my invocations of the notwithstanding clause straight.
Re Anglo contempt: I 100% think the Yes side would win a new referendum. During Meech Lake, protesters in Brockville stomped on the fleurdelisé, and Radio-Canada played it nonstop. With cameras everywhere, every such incident will be recorded, played on TVA and shared on Facebook a million times.
My unpopular opinion is that once newcomers must send their kids to majority language schools (ie the exiting practice for the last 50 years), the real problems mostly solve themselves. That doesn't solve fake problems, like the risk English vocabulary in French may rise to the level seen in Paris.
Nothing will never be good enough. After all, if the concern is use of French as the common language in public, why are the language spoken at home rates written about so often in le Journal de Montréal? André Pratt made an analogous point about Bill 96 today on the Bad Site: x.com/apratte/stat...
But Québec anglophones are actually the quintessential example of how language minority communities are always more bilingual than the majority community. Francophone Quebecers are more bilingual than Canadians as a whole, and anglophone Quebecers are more bilingual than Quebecers as a whole.
Québec anglos are technically the recognized Official Language Minority Community® in Québec... Just don't expect that to help in Québec City.
Someone mentioned to me earlier that this leads to a civil service is disproportionately Swedish-speaking since language minority communities are always more bilingual than the majority community. (Like elsewhere, civil service bonuses minority language bilingualism.) (See also: the Gatineau mafia)
The head of state is from the Swedish language community!
(I, for one, remember when Canada lowered the Goods and Services Tax by 1%, so Québec raised Québec Sales Tax by 1% the same day, and I also remember when that happened again the following year!)
If this were to become the default response, the states that would actually be screwed by the GOP's tax and welfare cuts are actually poor red states (and NM). Is that good? No. Is it better than states pretending they're powerless to do anything? Depends if you think that provides real leverage.
If Congress lowers Federal income tax by x% and cut programme y, there is nothing stopping a state from raising taxes and restoring y. Rich states like NY and CA could actually maintain the same level of services with lower effective tax rates. Yet states act like they are powerless to backfill.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA This...this is one of the least destructive ways he could make himself colossally unpopular, tbh.
After all, if SCOTUS says Trump cannot fire Lisa Cook or an FTC commissioner or what have you, there would still be nothing stopping him from calling up Mike Johnson and John Thune and demanding they give him the ability to do so. Everything, in fact, is norms, and breaks when you don't have any.
Central bank independence exists because there is a norm around central bank independence—not due to formal legal protections. Everything in how "the system" works—judicial independence, criminal justice, free elections—ultimately relies on players agreeing on how the game is played, not some text.
People worry that if Trump were to be successful in firing Cook and/or Powell, it would erode Fed independence and lead to an Arthur Burns-style situation. But legally Arthur Burns was just as independent as current governors. (If anything, he was more protected.) Norms rule everything around me.
Table: data.census.gov/table/ACSST1...
4.1% excluding WfH in 2023. www2.census.gov/programs-sur...
Cook is also the governor with the longest remaining term. She provides the most juice for the squeeze.
(I would note though that this isn't true as written. The NC House, not the entire legislature, unanimously passed a bill that would abolish parking minima statewide, but it's still in committee in the Senate.)
The piece discusses statewide reforms.
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The thing about Cassandra is … no one listened, Troy falls and she’s murdered.
I will never stop centering intersectionality in all of my work.
I'd put this in my bio if I didn't already have a perfect bio.
Real estate guy has touched the interest rates stove.
You just never had the courage to fail that badly.
I have literally never heard of three no bills. Even two on a case is incredibly unusual. Any former AUSAs ever hear of such a thing?
I think that this is an exception. Trump really has a deeply held belief that low rates good, a belief which is second only to his deeply held belief that tariffs good.
Roberts: We should never reach for or comment on issues that aren't before the court Also Roberts: OF COURSE WHAT WE ARE SAYING IN THIS CASE DOES NOT NECESSARILY APPLY TO THE FED