Stephen G Volan

MA Geog ‘19. City Council 2004-. DJ @WFHB 1993-. Not a wine grower in France. Not an accountant in Manila. Not the San Gabriel Valley. @[email protected]

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

Bloomington is a "college town." The large university here is not its own municipality (hello, Clemson) and completely inside city limits, so half our 80,000 population is college students. But only one's ever served on our city council. A 🧵 about local gov’t (w/maps). 1/29

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

There is no Constitutional prohibition against deleting surveillance footage, so I’m not sure what Jack Smith thinks he’s doing here.

-Jonathan Turley

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

@codykirkpatrick IU is a city. But it’s not a city. But it’s a city! But it’s *not* a city.

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

@caitorade He could have been the voice of the actual crown

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

@melindo64 Why not just invent a new one, like G=zl^3, and pimp the hell out of it

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

@dbenderpt Daylight time has ended again, my friend

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

@benfulton Thanks, @benfulton! But it was really a group effort by two different commission lineups six (!) years apart. It may have been that when I floated a benefit district back in the day, it got a knee-jerk negative reaction. We can eventually amend the policy!

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

@rileychoe1 I’m in

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

@rileychoe1 Okay. Got a few million lying around?

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

@rileychoe1 The existing line through Bloomington is rated for maybe 40 mph. It’d take a major upgrade to make passenger rail practical.

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

@Artventuno @FnsiSocial Non sono il Sindicato giornalisti Veneto, grazie

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

Hey @aaron_renn @Ashton_Hackman @idsnews, I wrote a thing about redistricting the city council map of a college town, and the students who never get real representation. It's probably going to cost me my political career; maybe it's interesting.
https://t.co/ZLTP3HNDkm

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

Bloomington is a "college town." The large university here is not its own municipality (hello, Clemson) and completely inside city limits, so half our 80,000 population is college students. But only one's ever served on our city council. A 🧵 about local gov’t (w/maps). 1/29

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

I wrote a 67,000-word master’s thesis about the geography of American higher education (know any publishers?), so in case you have a lot of thoughts about this thread or related topics, I probably have a lot more thoughts about 'em. Let’s talk over a can of Liquid Death. 29/29

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

Here's a map of 3 full / 5 partial Bloomington city precincts and their 2020 populations. Everything in purple or pink is either dorms, Greek-letter houses, or "family student housing". There’s not a house or privately-owned dwelling to be found in this area about 1.5 mi^2. 15/29

[Stephen G Volan @sgv]

...it’s unlikely that my home precinct will get put back in. My political future is a matter for another time (and tweetstorm). I've tried to do right by my constituents; this feels like the proper action I should take for them. 28/29