John J. Parman

A federal agent shot a pastor in the face with a chemical weapon. What can California do about it? A violent response to an Oakland protest raises the same legal questions other states are grappling with as Trump’s immigration crackdown intensifies.

Not a good look. www.berkeleyside.org/2025/10/30/f...

Hazards of the trade.

"Steal from the best" - Charles Moore (but he didn't have this in mind).

Surely the servants' basement rooms count as affordable?

Hamas should look to the IRA as its precedent.

It's too bad the Key Route was demolished. If this is its revival, consider some parallel north-south lines and east-west lines at key points to connect them. The key to walkability in the East Bay is making it easier to get to walkable destinations without a car. SF does that a lot better.

How does this work?

Maybe I haven't found them yet. My feed is a sea of pets and other detritus.

So far, you, your husband, and Darrell Owens are the most interesting people I've encountered posting here. I stlll look at it and at Twitter, but I find a lot more of substance on LinkedIn.

Surprised no one's tried it.

Berkeley encampment fire puts the focus on Codornices Creek Community members are concerned about impacts on businesses and protected steelhead trout. They say Berkeley must do more.

Urban dilemmas, episode 1,267,488.

Federal funds for transit is the prerequisite, unless California's tax regime changes to make Tech pay its fair share of the public realm.

You can still experience this, flying to SF from Tokyo.

Gunmen kill 2, injure 12 in a shootout in Alabama’s capital Montgomery Five of the wounded were in life-threatening condition, police said. No one has yet been arrested and police are appealing for information.

"The Right to Bear Arms," episode 762,477,986 (and counting).
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CA invades Oregon, apparently.

"Radical Suburbs" is really good, if that's the book you mean.

Calligraphy and Tea with Dr. Peiting C. Li 1st & 3rd Sundays 10am–12pm Join us at Teance for calligraphy & tea—a shared space for both seasoned practitioners and the calligraphy-curious. Cultivate se

My friend Peiting Li is teaching calligraphy at Teance in Berkeley, in case you live in these parts.
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Renting in Seattle area to get harder After a building boom since the pandemic, apartment construction is dying down in Seattle as costs rise and economic uncertainty mounts.

More from Seattle.
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Bad Housing Policy In Seattle Should Be A Warning To Other Cities Affordability mandates and eviction bans are well intended, but they are harming the Seattle's non-profit housing sector.

Is inclusionary housing problematic?
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Kent State redux? Is he going to Lewis & Clark?

Re: the first finding, Daniel Parolek made this point in a recent talk at CED moderated by Chris Calott.

Isn't Irvington in New Jersey? Unaware there was one here. Build a station on Solano Ave. - that would do some good.

Sharing the fun!

Greek Theater volume a tad too high.

My sense is that organic city growth here has been in decline since the end of WW2.

What's needed is the complexity typical of older forms - like shophouses in East and SE Asia. The causal issue here is the postwar penchant for single-use zoning.

The Lost Soul of Oakland: Living Large in Lower Rockridge Real estate speculation is eroding the beauty of a great urban neighborhood.

James Rojas on the slow demise of his Rockridge neighborhood.

A bag with $50k is never a good look.

I don't disagree. I just wish the system had been set up better at the outset.

Four tracks would have to be continuous for express trains to run on BART.