Jordan and others proved this to be false yesterday.

This @[email protected] (they/them) post about negative exceptionalism and fake criticism is required reading for anybody interested in building codes – you’ll hit bingo every time you ask a code or fire official why we can’t have what Europe or Asia has pedestrianobservations.com/2022/08/18/neg…

Today’s weather is what my nostalgia claims every day was like as a kid in Philadelphia.

San Francisco has seen a decade-long drop in traffic citations, a trend that police have vowed to reverse. A Chronicle analysis shows the drop in detail.
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Without enforcement, Vision Zero is impossible. It’s why I support speed and red light cameras alongside a fully staffed police department.

We can end traffic deaths with common sense measures to bring sanity back to our streets.

Live update: Netanyahu called off retaliatory strike on Iran after call with Biden – New York Times dlvr.it/T5TzwN

Philadelphia and Phoenix, famously midsized cities.

This dude just tried to claim that declining homicide data is 'missing NYC, Chicago, KC, LA, DC, Houston, Minneapolis' ...

By quote-tweeting an article that shows annualized homicide rates declined
- 16% in NYC
- 9% in Chicago
- 9% in KC
- 7% in DC
- 26% in Houston
- 2% in MSP

Important new paper. State & local candidates are like 'unlike those fatcats in DC, I'm close to the people' but lower level elections have the most unrepresentative electorates & donors, lowest info, and are most influenced by money.

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'America’s biggest story right now isn't a wannabe dictator but the 74 million who want to live under one,' writes Will Bunch.

'I went to Donald Trump’s rally in Schnecksville on Saturday to find out why.'

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City Council held up Bus Revolution because 200 meetings wasn't sufficient. Where was Council when this mess happened? We could have used some meetings before implementing this. The district would have found out very quickly that everyone hates this idea.

Many Israelis owe their lives to Arabs who followed orders they may not have loved fulfilling. In the spirit of this generosity, Israel must begin listening to these same nations when it comes to the future of Palestine.

LeBron could never

This idea that the forgivability of PPP was not clearly part of the program design from the very beginning is just obviously wrong. Here's a CNBC article from March 2020

NYC subway fare evasion post-pandemic is completely normalized in a way it wasn't before.

At my stop a crowd just waits for the train to pull up, and for someone to walk through the emergency gate... then they all just walk onto the platform.

In 2004, I was 18 & a total anti-Bush lib. The thing I am perhaps most ashamed of is that I liked Fahrenheit 9/11 when it came out. (It’s actually the worst movie ever.) but one of the key talking points was that politicians didn’t send their own kids to war. But Biden did