This @WorksInProgMag article is a great complement to my paper w/ @dbroockman & @j_kalla on aesthetics & housing politics.
Urban land assembly is like a magic wand for good-looking cities.
Developers of big tracts internalize the positive spillovers of good design.
1/5
Hey @DanielLurie can you tell @SFPD that officers parking in a @SFMTA_Muni bus stop when they're eating as customers in a restaurant and not responding to a call is corrupt abuse of power?
Hey @starbirdchicken is your legal department aware that @mmmforkable has replaced the beautiful photos of your meals with AI-generated slop that totally misrepresents your product?
@cayimby Put a constitutional amendment on the ballot that lets Californians choose to vote either in the municipality where they work or in the municipality where they live.
Next month I'll be chatting with each of the four main mayoral candidates at The Commons in Hayes Valley. Come!
Oct 2 Peskin: https://t.co/vHFvz1RHqD
Oct 10 Lurie: https://t.co/lda6cca4el
Oct 15 Breed: https://t.co/3uL6RGOWpw
Oct 23 Farrell: https://t.co/1Q2dAViHga
Hi NYC friends
I will be in New York this week. Want to meet me at the UN at 3:30 on Tuesday 10/24? I will be handing out this flyer I made (just the 1st 2 pages, one double sided sheet): https://t.co/YGpv1sFc5d Feel free to add suggestions or comments.
"We have a housing policy that unnecessarily impoverishes us all so therefore we must have an immigration policy that unnecessarily impoverishes us all to compensate" continues to be one of the worst ideas gaining popularity across the world.
I met Senator Diane Feinstein once, in the lead up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. She had just recently been assigned to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (in 2001), and it was in that capacity that she had a senior staffer from the committee ask me to come to Washington DC to brief her on Iraqi WMD and the allegations being made by the Bush administration that Iraq continued to possess them. We met in a secure conference room in the Capital buildingโme, the Senator, and a half dozen staffers and aides. It was a polite, professional affair, with the Senator asking questions and taking notes. Eventually she confronted meโโYour position is causing us some difficulty. You are making the US look bad in the eyes of the world.โ I replied that my analysis and the underlying facts were rock solid, something she agreed with. I said that while I knew she couldnโt reveal sensitive intelligence, if she could look me in the eye and say she has seen unequivocal proof that Iraq retained WMD, Iโd shut up and go away. She looked at her retinue, and then me. โI have seen no such intelligence,โ she replied. She thanked me for the briefing, and said it provided her with โfood for thought.โ
On October 11, 2002, Senator Feinstein voted in favor of the resolution authorizing war with Iraq. Later, she said she had been misled by the Bush administration and bad intelligence.
I will forever know Senator Feinstein as someone who had been empowered by the truth, and lacked the moral courage to act on it. The blood of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis stains her soul. I hope when she stands in judgment before her maker, she is punished accordingly.
More housing above stores. More apartments near transit. No more mandatory parking spots. No more red tape and regulation holding back homes for New Yorkers.
This is the plan for a little more housing in every neighborhood: https://t.co/sNgQN4C35I
Big changes ahead for San Francisco as the state is stepping up to ensure we meet our housing goals.
Read the latest from @anniefryman on Senator @Scott_Wiener's Senate Bill 423. https://t.co/hFGFov8muh
"We have a housing policy that unnecessarily impoverishes us all so therefore we must have an immigration policy that unnecessarily impoverishes us all to compensate" is both flat-out wrong and one of the worst ideas gaining popularity across the world.
After calls to resign, Senator Menendez said โI am not going anywhere.โ As a result, I feel compelled to run against him. Not something I expected to do, but NJ deserves better. We cannot jeopardize the Senate or compromise our integrity. Please join me:
https://t.co/QFIaMsgJc9