Stasia

This was Craigslist until the majority started posting their vintage trinkets on FB only 🥲

The total number of pedestrians killed on Connecticut’s roads this year is actually one more than in the article. There was a death in July that never got reported by news.

Graphic for Stasia Brewczynski's article Rain and Rest in Germany for the new issue of Final Gravity.

Quote graphic for Stasia Brewczynski reading "Americans in Germany quickly learn that on Sundays, most stores are closed to help protect people's right to rest. For Germans, however, a "rest" from work doesn't necessarily mean lounging around the house."

@stasiabrew.bsky.social and her companions find camaraderie and joy on a dismal, drizzling Sunday in Germany.

The hacker’s message is not what’s wrong with this image. Why is the sign for drivers blocking the sidewalk??

If North Carolina can do it, any state can do it.

The veto of HB5002 a 🧵1/ a lot

If only we gathered a group of municipal leaders and both sides of the aisle, and advocates and listened to experts . . . Spent six months on the Majority Leader’s Round Table learning how best to move forward in the 2nd most constrained housing market in the country.

Inject the phrase “we need bollards, we need to replace these flex delineators” straight into my veins 🩼🩼🩼

Graphic showing the cover art for Final Gravity Issue 09, with text announcing preorders are now available.

Tons of great articles here from @stasiabrew.bsky.social, @meganululani.bsky.social, @amethystheels.bsky.social, @sip-and-savor.bsky.social, @ashcroach.bsky.social, @melindag.bsky.social, & others. www.beantobarstool.com/shop/p/final...

When I brought up the fact that fed / state agents were using Flock to target immigrants in my interview with incumbent Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Colette McEachin (a booster of RPD’s use of the system) last month she didn’t seem to grasp the reality of the situation or its grim implications.

Just to put it in perspective: Trump’s birthday parade drew about 8,600 people. Meanwhile, Connecticut held 30 rallies, and over 10,000 showed up in Hartford alone. Donald Trump got ratioed by Hartford, Connecticut. On his birthday.

What if - and I'm just spitballing here - we designed park benches to actually be comfortable to sit on.

This is good news but CT’s ebike incentive program has taught me not to get my hopes up very high.

Lamont, CT Democrats at budget impasse after neither side budgeted for nursing home wage increases A nursing home strike settlement no one budgeted for is threatening budget talks between Gov. Ned Lamont and state legislators.

this story was crazier than I thought: Lamont wants massive higher ed cuts *to pay for wage increases to other state employees*. he wants us all fighting each other for scraps. Lamont is so disgusting. www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...

Dunno but Lamont's proposed public higher ed cuts, as the feds slash existing funding (federal research grants, international students) & limit student loans, seems like a bad idea for state econ development, but what do I know, I'm just someone with <<checks notes>> a PhD in economic development.

Gov. Lamont says CT spends more on education than any state. The reality is more complicated Connecticut spends plenty on schools, but little of that money comes from the state, and the result is sharp disparities from one district to the next.

good piece on Ned Lamont and his passion for decontextualized data to justify resource hoarding rather than spending for an equitable Connecticut. www.ctinsider.com/news/educati...

💯💯💯 this!!! I cannot emphasize enough that literally ZERO swing voters will know or care about this.

End this absurd “tradition” and either pass good bills or vote bad ones down.

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Hop Notes 24: Meet Vera Expert analysis to help you make better hop decisions.

Rank-and-file drinkers may not know this—hell, I didn't, until a few years ago, and I cover the beer industry for a living—but the USDA has a long-running public hops development program (as opposed to the proprietary varietals that have lately been popular.) Its newest release has insiders buzzing.

You never heard about this death because the driver remained on the scene.

If reporters expressed as much outrage over the lack of sidewalks and crosswalks near a boarding school as they do over “hit and run drivers,” we’d have any sense of reality.

Last year a driver hit a child in Suffield. Because reporters have short attention spans, they never bothered to share that the 15-yr old died a few weeks later. He was the classmate of a friend’s son.

Boston drivers ARE constantly hitting each other/other people.

In Boston, people are 130% more likely to be involved in a car crash than the national average — which is already significantly higher than in most countries (although not higher than Thailand).

“All journalists in Connecticut, both at Hearst Connecticut Media Group and outside of it, should earn a living wage to keep doing the vital work of serving our audiences and communities.”

“If human choices create inequality, then they can also alleviate it[…] Higher taxes on wealthy residents and corporations, greater investment in education and social services, housing policies that make the state more affordable, greater sharing of services between rich communities and poor ones.”

Why a pedestrian island rather than safer, more people-friendly bump outs that slow drivers more effectively?

I appreciated your blog post/quote, Tony!

My question re: students was in response to the question of enforcement. Whether or not the FCT rules are enforced matters, but even without enforcement people who are not willing/able to take the risk of enforcement are kept from using the FCT to commute.

Yes, and yet there is a law against riding on the sidewalk and it is enforced.

The wildest part is that this is such low-hanging fruit. It would literally cost nothing to make the FCT legally accessible to commuters. Decision makers want to take credit at press conferences for the FCT being “commutable” but as of yet are completely unwilling to actually make it so.

Do you feel confident that HHS’s diverse population of teenagers will feel confident and be safe to commute to school (which, of course, begins before sunrise much of the school year) without any fear of enforcement/harassment from authorities?

Hamden High School to add bicycle shop in courtyard to encourage other transportation for students Funded by a federal grant, Hamden High School's bike shop will offer repair tools and workshops as a way to promote sustainable student transportation.

Hamden High School is located on a dangerous stroad that lacks any safe/legal bike infrastructure. It’s also a block off the FCT. HHS is currently adding a bike shop & bike parking. That same section of FCT, however, is covered in signage about this rule. www.nhregister.com/news/article...

“Fear of crime” is wild excuse when being forced to share space with drivers is by far the biggest risk factor to people on foot/micro-mobility vehicles.

To make the trail equitably accessible to all, the rule needs to be changed.

I agree about the bias against late shift workers. That said, I can’t think of many (any?) full-time jobs that have daylight commutes roundtrip year-round in New England (Dec in CT, for example, has ~5-6 daylight hours).