Dan Eisner

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

Because there will be many more city council meetings about this, I totally mailed in my public comment last Monday. Thanks @benjaminisaac_1 for quoting the portion where I sounded halfway decent.

https://t.co/P6FonMOv6q

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

@BarbaraBAnthony @realBurhanAzeem My neighborhood has no setbacks and I love it. I genuinely don’t understand the obsession with setbacks. Cambridge is a city. It’s not a suburb. Anybody who wants setbacks can move to a place like Peabody.

[Burhan Azeem, Cambridge Vice Mayor @realBurhanAzeem]

tl;dr We’re making real progress on zoning but I need y’all to continue writing in including today to [email protected].
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Imma need to get real with you all.

Cambridge has terrible exclusionary zoning that makes 80%+ of existing housing illegal and definitely doesn’t support new housing.

We’ve been ideating to fix this and have an ask for city staff to turn our slides into zoning (the vote tonight).

This would start a 3 month process to hopefully turn that language into law.

This would be a huge change from where are now and that’s scary so we need to show council the public is on board. NOW IS WHEN A LACK OF PUBLIC SUPPORT CAN KILL A CHANGE.

That means over the next 3 months, I need y’all to write in multiple times, get friends to do so, and maybe even volunteer.

You can email [email protected] (and cc [email protected]) with an email tonight saying you support ending exclusionary zoning and building lots of housing.

I’ll keep you updated on X with more requests and if you want to volunteer please DM me!

This is a generational chance to tackle the housing crisis and we can’t fumble the ball. Now is THE time, let’s do it.

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

@jessekb I still have fond memories of taking the Night Owl bus when I was a drunk young man.

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

School closures and other disruptions to education during Covid were the worst domestic policy screwup in many decades.

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

Who could have possibly foreseen that our extreme Covid response would have disastrous consequences for public education?

[The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe]

The Big Idea: In Brookline, Cambridge, and Newton, the percentage of students attending public school has dropped over the last decade as a larger proportion of children opt for private schools. https://t.co/xUDUf1VO9n

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

This commissioner from the Cambridge Historical Commission is pretty high on her own supply.

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

After two hours of discussion and debate, the Cambridge Historical Commission voted to establish a historical landmark study for the Democracy Center, potentially postponing plans to remodel the space.

@sallyedwards04 and @asherjmont report.

https://t.co/r31DBd0r3b

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN is an iconic headline of American history. And yet people continue to make the same mistake!

[Jeremy Burton @BurtonJM]

Off to a great start with the whole 'safe, welcoming campus for Jews too' here in Cambridge, MA.

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

@kskubecz Harvard students will get the best remedial education imaginable. But what about the kids from marginalized backgrounds whose prime learning years were stolen from them?

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

I was hoping Uyterhoeven would be held accountable for her dreadful position on school reopening during Covid. Oh well.

[Katie Lannan @katielannan]

The Associated Press has called the 27th Middlesex House race in favor of Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven, who faced a challenge from Kathleen Hornby. #mapoli

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

Harvard—HARVARD—has launched an introductory math course to address the learning loss caused by our horrific pandemic response. Maybe decades from now we’ll have a reckoning over what we did to kids.

[The Harvard Crimson @thecrimson]

The Harvard Math Department will pilot a new introductory course aimed at rectifying a lack of foundational algebra skills among students, according to Harvard’s Director of Introductory Math Brendan A. Kelly.

@MacHealey and @angelinajparker report.

https://t.co/nse3jK07F4

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

@erika4rep @AyannaPressley Haven’t been following your race closely, but I hope this has come up.

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

.@realBurhanAzeem justifiably has a higher billing than Matt Yglesias.

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

it’s YIMBYchella, y’all. @YIMBYsforHarris tonight at 5 PM. RSVP at yimbysforharris dot com

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

@jessekb @CHAPAdotorg @MASmartGrowth @MAPCMetroBoston @ABetterCambMA So that means Robert Winters, much to his chagrin I’m sure, is partially responsible for Kamala Harris running as a YIMBY.

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

It was entirely predictable that the heavy-handed pandemic response would harm public transportation. But many progressives were afraid of appearing to not take Covid seriously and didn’t dare push back. So here we are.

https://t.co/p7Bbj42O23

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

@Marc_C_McGovern In addition to improving infrastructure, the City and cycling safety advocates should also put more energy into educating cyclists on safe riding practices. The reality is our streets will continue to be dangerous for some time, so education is the necessary short-term solution.

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

@LJBilmes @Cyclingnewsfeed The US has the best freight rail system in the world so I don’t think that’s the issue. And it’s not like rail can deliver heads of lettuce to H Mart.

What daytime restrictions would be placed on trucks? What would be the impact on truck drivers and workers receiving shipments?

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

@Kmaccity @somershade1 @lisawhitecooks It depends. It’s not always possible, but there are times when a cyclist is able to stay out of a truck driver’s blind spot by remaining behind it.

[Dan Eisner @daeisner]

@thejeffbyrnes @somershade1 @lisawhitecooks When approaching a truck from behind, I’m always sure to remain behind it to stay out of the driver’s blind spot. If a truck driver approaches me from behind, that’s different, but in the future, I’ll try to be aware that this is happening. I’ll probably buy a mirror.