Henry Grabar

Trump taps Ingrassia for new role after texting scandal Paul Ingrassia, who withdrew his nomination to lead the Office of Special Counsel last month, says in a farewell email that he’s moving to the General Services Administration.

oh, this guy is on the commission now (he's in favor) www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

phil mendelson is asking the right questions: Why is this thing so big? Can it be smaller and less conspicuous? (Answer is no)

copy paste

giant american flag looks ridiculous

surreal to hear the NCPC asking questions about granite vs limestone pavers as they prepare to greenlight this monstrosity

nothing says "I like to read" like hanging paintings in front of the bookshelves www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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i mean, the bianchi could be cool in another context, but the seat lock, no fenders, flat handlebars... it's not doing it for me

also, dudes out for a rollerblade... not something you see so much anymore...

the dorkiness of these bikes is cracking me up. i hope they got him a Tokyo bike in the series.

missed this last month - Uber is getting into parking investor.uber.com/news-events/...

pretty *cool* analysis of pavement temperature changes following school street installations in Paris, via @marcelmoran.com journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

single-stair gang lookin good!

Join What Next and What Next: TBD for a live taping at WBUR CitySpace in Boston on March 20th. Join the hosts of Slate's What Next and What Next: TBD podcasts in Boston for a live show at WBUR CitySpace on March 20th. Tickets are available now!

Hey Boston! @maryharris.bsky.social and I are doing a live show at WBUR on March 20, with, among others, MIT president Sally Kornbluth. Come join us! slate.com/whatnextlive

Unfortunately today’s crappy weather means that the @henrygrabar.bsky.social talk in WeHa is postponed.

Stay safe out there tonight. I’m looking forward to the new date!

Author Talk: Henry Grabar and Paved Paradise in West Hartford at the Noah Webster Library at 6 pm Tuesday March 3

Jeff Speck hosted at Downtown Cabaret in Bridgeport on Thursday March 12

Two awesome events in Connecticut the next weeks:
@henrygrabar.bsky.social comes to West Hartford hosted by @bikewesthartford.bsky.social!

And then @jeffspeck.bsky.social comes to Bridgeport next week!

Sorry to hear that dan - my condolences

terrible. this happened to the apartment my mom grew up in! bsky.app/profile/agor...

amazing first scandal. tom Wolfe ass plot line

Smartphones, Online Music Streaming, and Traffic Fatalities Vishal R. Patel, Christopher M. Worsham, Michael Liu & Anupam B. Jena X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 34866 DOI 10.3386/w34866 Issue Date February 2026 Modern smartphones present new threats to road safety beyond talking and texting, but the real-world effects are difficult to study. One way to causally assess the impact of smartphones on road safety is to identify arbitrarily timed events during which smartphone-related distraction may exogenously increase – i.e., a situation that relies not on plausibly random variation in who uses smartphones while driving, but when smartphones are used. We investigated the impact of smartphones on road safety by examining traffic fatalities on days when smartphone use likely surges: the release of major music albums. Using event study analysis, we show that music streaming – an indicator for smartphone use, where streaming most often occurs – sharply increases, by nearly 40%, on dates of major music album releases, while U.S. traffic fatalities increase by nearly 15% on those same days. Mobile device use while driving is a known safety issue, but today’s smartphones present new and greater opportunities for driver distraction. Our study indicates how features of these phones may have important impacts on distracted driving and traffic fatalities.

On days when major albums are released, people use music streaming services on their smartphone 40% more, and U.S. traffic fatalities increase by 15% www.nber.org/papers/w3486...

Not the Onion

Dallas needs more than $1B over 20 years to fully repair City Hall, new report says The newly released facilities review finds extensive structural and system failures at City Hall and outlines repair costs that may alter the city of Dallas'...

Dallas City Hall moves another step closed to the wrecking ball with these insanely huge repair estimates www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

People are skipping that to play “dizzy miss lizzy“?

Come for the graft, stay for Trump… making fun of the women’s hockey team

maybe my favorite detail in here, which explains why this line of research has been relatively ignored until recently: A study of vacancy chains from the 1960s required researchers to knock on doors to gather more than 3,000 interviews!

High-End Construction Really Does Help Everyone A new rung at the top of the housing ladder permits people lower down to climb up.

new from me: a story about VACANCY CHAINS, the idea that underlies the argument that more housing is good even if you can't afford it www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Daytona. Why?

legalize it

there's a lot of competition but i think this is the most vapid idea for a website i have ever encountered nationaltoday.com/our-mission/