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I give credit for Alex Lee being one of the Assembly members calling for the ban to be repealed. Lee is a close disciple of Ro Khanna(there districts overlap) and as everyone knows I am NOT a Ro Khanna fan due to his opposition to the Advance Act and Kathy Hochul

Big advantage for NYC is much of the grid is underground.

If you live in the Deutsche Bank Center(formerly Time Warner Center) you can actually go to Kelleher's Per Se without even going outdoors even.

I'm still planning on going to his NYC restuarant Per Se for my birthday(in the multi-use Deutsche Bank center) in homage of Newsom going there and Kathy Hochul keeping Foie Gras legal in NY State(Upstate NY is the only place in the US where it is farmed).

Development is a good thing in some place like Manhattan which has the infrastructure, environment and geology to support it. The FL Peninsula however, already has the twice the number that the environment can support.

was intending to fly A320's and 737 Max's on that route but notice the prevalence of CRJ-9s out of LGA to both YYZ and YUL.

The one cavaet is you still aren't seeing Air Canada say give up slots at LGA or close there lounges at LGA and SFO. Business travel is still steady but look at too what they are flying for equipment YYZ-LGA. YUL-LGA was originally intended to be a A220 route while YYZ-LGA was big enough that AC

In part as wealth taxes are unconstitutional in Germany.

Aspen Ski Co. also did a emissions analysis and figured out half of the local GG emissions have nothing to do with tourism but methane leaking from abandoned mines(which they are helping to seal, capture and flare)

Another factoid about Aspen. There used to be a railroad spur that ran up the valley from Glenwood Springs where Amtrak stops but it was turned into a bike path in the early 1980s.

Also because the Aspen Airport is so close to the slopes the door to door time is less than Vail.

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Aspen is also family owned(albeit a very wealthy family) unlike a publicly traded Vail. www.forbes.com/profile/crown/

The people who own Aspen Ski Company are big fans of nuclear and from Chicago from what I understand. I always find it weird that Vail is the "Chicago" ski area NOT Aspen despite Aspen is owned by prominent Chicagoans.

Just from the surface I always like to compare Zurich Airport and the SBB to Logan Airport and the MBTA. The SBB blows the MBTA away although Logan Airport is at least in sight of ZRH in terms of quality due to dramatic improvements by Massport.

GDP per capital is still lower unfortunately everywhere in Europe other than Switzerland. FWIW its worth Switzerland and Massachusetts are supposed to have the same GDP per capita. but CH always seems richer IMHO.

I am really starting to hate the State of PA. Fetterman, Linker, Longwell all losers. It's time to make fun of PA and its downward mobility like we do of Mississippi.

The really bad people are the Pennsylvania types like Damon Linker and Sarah Longwell telling the Macrons and Carney's not to personally attack Trump because it will offend PA voters.

Yes, even Newsom is basically saying this.

Security screeners at SFO aren't part of the Federal civil service like they are at ORD, LGA, etc.

It is already abolished at some airports like SFO(they have similar uniforms but they are not TSA screeners) but organized Labor would raise a fit.

Ironically trying to occupy Ottawa is probably more feasible than Greenland just because Greenland has no real population center and is just dozens of outposts separated by thousands of miles. You could invade Ottawa and at claim to control Canada.

Too many people would be calling on the US Military to disregard orders from Trump and it would just turn into a type of civil war.

My own view of a US invasion of Canada is it probably requires some type of declaration of martial law in the US first and putting the large number of politicians in the US who would oppose such a move into detention.

The question with Greenland is what does Canada do? Does Canada take it as an all out war between the US and Canada which I think would quickly devolve into a kind of guerilla civil war.

In California Reagan did have a state level role as Governor in the early 1970s.

SMUD is a much dirtier utility than PG&E. Heavily dependent on gas.

At the end of the day wins are wins and losses even if close are still losses.

Should have always used Azure to begin with.

Also a lot of Democrats opposed the legalization of abortion under Nelson Rockefeller.

Japan actually has quite a few PWR's especially in the southern half of the country.