Small business owners literally have no fucking idea what is good for them

It’s so clear that CicLAvia needs to be monthly on key routes like Venice Blvd. We’ve gotta figure out how to make it happen. The demand is there. A better city is possible.

It’s worth remembering that bike lanes are motoring infrastructure. If not for the extreme danger posed by drivers they’d be unnecessary.

What makes this topic “toxic” is the institutional pushback on the need to share road space with an increasingly diverse travelling public.

I attended this event representing League of Women Voters of LA County and Whittier. I have been a participant in CVOC since its inception in 1997. Tour of the new Ballot Processing Center was very useful. We even got to go into the tally room to see how machines operate.

Inclusionary zoning trades broad housing affordability for a handful of subsidized units. It is bad, counterproductive policy and we should stop doing it.

1-3 BR homes on each floor. daylight on 3 sides. corner aspect that facilitates cross ventilation

the american code official's mind cannot comprehend

Here we go again with this asinine cautious approach to testing for H5N1

CDC is NOT recommending that people with no symptoms - but who have had contact w infected animals - be tested at all… and certainly are not recommending a swab w any frequency.

Though we should have

Communities seeking to exclude the poor and minorities created and spread exclusionary zoning.

Housing justice absolutely requires dismantling that system of economic exclusion.

Defending exclusionary zoning, but from the left, is just silly.

I got mine. But then I grabbed another for Kenny Uong

There should be a term for the practicing of only assigning agency to one party so they can carry all of the blame.

Join us at the #givebigkern day Riverwalk park in Bakersfield!

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More people should play the rush hour game to understand the need for vacancies thinkfun.com/products/rush-…

More than 70% of the population of California resides within 30 miles of a fault where high ground shaking could occur in the next 50 years.

Have a nice weekend! 🤗

With the recent weak sentencings for car drivers who killed people with their cars, it seems like a great time to share this regular thought of mine:

If someone wanted to stop my advocacy, they could just hit and kill me — someone who primarily walks and bikes — with their car.

Just had a ‘passionate conversation’ w/ a nurse who tried to shame a patient into removing a personal HEPA from their room. She scoffed at patient & carer N95s & declared, unprompted, that she doesn’t have to wear one.
The HEPA stayed.
I am tired of fighting with fools.

Unoccupied car Bloor St W #bikeTO tagged not too long ago by me, watched driver return. Not sure if they were unfazed or didn’t see the ticket but pretty sure I saw them grab it off the windshield 🧐$150 served

It's not the kids getting big inheritances that are in need of help

Surveillance for a potential zoonotic jump of bird flu using ER visits as a main source of data seems like a “little too late” strategy

How about… I don’t know, asking the people on the farms where outbreaks have been detected to provide swabs on a routine basis. That would be

Taiwan might be a democracy but we have a QUEEN! Specifically, Taiwanese drag queen Nymphia Wind won season 16 of RuPaul’s drag race for her high-concept costumes and performances.

If Gavin Newsom had pressured just 5 votes out of the legislature for SB50 back in 2020 he would have solved the biggest part of this issue, which is the flow of people into homelessness.