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Innovative juvenile corrections program is growing roots The Grow Academy near Fitchburg hopes to expand its program for boys as evidence shows the alternative to incarceration works.

Innovative juvenile corrections program is growing roots. Story via The Cap Times.

This is a small snow plow for sidewalks

If your city plows the roads but leaves sidewalks up to property owners, your city hates pedestrians.

Ryan Moulton @moultano Oil is the most Lovecraftian thing that actually exists. You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

I’m taking my toddler trick or treating for the first time this year. So excited your upcoming motion and can’t wait to speak in support. Thankyou so much!!

Ok but can this be real?? I got my hopes thinking this would be a podcast about neighborhood battles to install stop signs and safe streets. Great parody clip tho!!

Closing Central Madrid To Cars Resulted In 9.5% Boost To Retail Spending, Finds Bank Analysis City of Madrid significantly boosted the takings of its shops and restaurants last Christmas by banning cars from the CBD, finds an analysis by Spain's second largest bank.

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY.

There was also a 71% drop in air pollution.

Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Mamdani will win even harder if he promises that he will hire Adams on to just give daily press conferences where he can ramble about rat Jedis and how telekinesis is a problem in the dog community and such

You can't enable emergency services with narrow bike lanes. Build them wide and eliminate the gridlock caused by the inefficient geometry of cars in cities.

SB 79 (Wiener): Transit-Oriented Development and Upzoning SB 79 will make it faster and easier to build multi-family housing near transit stops, like train and rapid bus lines, by making it legal for more homes to be built in these areas and streamlining exi...

[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near high quality transit stops, has passed the Senate floor! The bill is now on the Governor’s desk. Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/...

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

People get tired if you post about “banning cars” all the time, so I try to balance it with lighter topics like “here’s a wonderful thing we can all enjoy if we ban cars.”

BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.

[writing the constitution]

Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president"

Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that

Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

this is The Way

The Waitlist Generation: Why Vancouver Parents Are Competing for Spots in Everything from Day Camp to Swim Lessons - Vancouver Magazine Thanks to a scarcity of family resources, Vancouver parents of all income levels are fighting for “everything.” Is there a solution in sight?

Tired of waitlists for EVERYTHING in Vancouver?

The issue: Structural ageism.

The solution: Organize, write, call, show up, be loud in between elections! And join us at! #vanpoli #bcpoli #cdnpoli #ageism www.vanmag.com/city/general...

YouTube video by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse Sens. Whitehouse and Heinrich Explain How the GOP Budget Bill Will Raise Your Energy Prices

I think it would be wise to make this elected Democratic discussion on the fossil fuel industry and electricity costs related to Republicans' anti-science agenda go viral.

Curious about tiktok edits anyway #EnergySky:
youtu.be/VN9OaaKHH5Q?...

Does your mom like retelling of Greek mythology centering the women in the stories? Been some amazing ones by Madeline Miller, then Pat Barker’s Silence the Girls and the women of Troy, and Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati

Most North American cities that have a “Vision Zero” declaration have not actually done the work. Vision Zero works, but it’s not going to happen if we’re too afraid to inconvenience a single motorist.

Reem Badwan was killed at 3 years old.

Khaled Nabhan held up the lifeless body of his 3-year-old granddaughter, Reem, kissed her eyes and called her the “soul of my soul.” She was killed in a strike alongside her brother, Tariq, 5, in November 2023. wapo.st/3UCiAjn

A new paper by Vincent Rollet at MIT replicates Li's 2022 finding that new construction reduces rents within a 500-foot radius in NYC vrollet.github.io/files/city_s...

Chart showing risk of being murdered in the subway if you rode 500 times last year (0.4 in 100,000) versus other risks such as that of dying in a traffic accident in the US last year (12.1 in 100,000)

The subway risk chart you've been waiting for (Sawyer County, Wisconsin, is where Sean Duffy is from). Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Coming as I do from a BBC comedy background, I have a shitload of suggestions for how to make great television programmes more cheaply (such as not budgeting them at $10m+ per episode) none of which anyone is interested in.

They don’t want cheaper TV. They want cheaper people.

One of the things this whole panic makes me think of is (darkly) the skyrocketing wages and cheap property enjoyed by working people after the plague. It really doesn’t seem that bad in one if it does happen! And at least we wouldn’t have to endure mass death to finally get a raise

Our campaign is calling on the city to implement *immediate* safety improvements on Rainier. There have been 1,500 injury and fatality crashes on this street over the last decade. This is unacceptable. South Seattle deserves safe streets.

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless SACRAMENTO, CA—Promising his podcast listeners an engaging and enlightening conversation, California Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly sat down Tuesday with a serial killer who targets the homeless populat...

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless

It is becoming increasingly unpleasant to be the customer of a giant corporation in the United States.

Every new technology seems to be used to further protect corporations from the rage of their customers, thus allowing the management to care less.

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There's something called the Autocrat's Dilemma--autocracies are by nature inefficient because the main qualification for civil servants is loyalty, not competence. This is exacerbated by the autocrat's tendency to play his government departments against each other as they all compete for his favor.

When Moderation Becomes Appeasement If your chief goal is to find a middle ground with the far right on social issues, you’ll end up condoning its values—just ask Keir Starmer.

"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do."

www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...

Thankyou for covering the new IVF program! Agree with the comments but was disappointed there was no mention of the wait. We applied and will not get accepted likely until late next year when it will be too late. Probably the case for many couples. Funding is too limited to reach everyone

A new pedestrian alley takes shape in Montreal’s Griffintown neighbourhood.

My most controversial Montreal opinion is that Griffintown gets way too much hatred, and that most critics haven’t actually spent much time there (at least not recently).