Favorites June 26 2021
I don’t want to toot my own horn too much, but I think I’ve got a good email for you today.
New York is squandering its investment in the expansion of the Long Island Rail Road by allowing Long Island communities to maintain strict limits on multifamily housing construction.
This is exactly the same problem that we have along Caltrain. It's a huge waste to not let many people live next to train stations that the state spends billions to improve.
A great summary of how lack of competition in professions occupied by the 1% creates inequality brook.gs/2dA0ASn via @BrookingsInst @jtrothwell
I was not ready for this: it's trade associations. "There are five times as many top 1 percent workers in dental services as in software services."
Unbelievable read on how deceptive campaign fundraising ensnares older people, with this shameful anecdote. Via @ShaneGoldmacher nytimes.com/2021/06/26/us/…
Among the tricks: "Pre-checked boxes to make repeated donations”, eww.
I do think parties should bring back the festival-style events (Trump kinda did with the rallies) — people like having stuff to do.
I like this idea a lot. Although cards on the table: I'm on the committee that plans my neighborhood's block party
The latest forecast is in! Unfortunately temps have increased slightly. We now expect widespread highs somewhere between 110-115 degrees across most of the interior lowlands tomorrow. This will shatter all-time record highs for many locations. STAY COOL! #PNWheatwave
As of 2015, only one third of portland residences had air conditioning.
