Scott Feeney

It’s building interior.

That article definitely downplayed Wiener’s extreme stances of conflating pro-Palestine organizing with antisemitism. So I can see it, but the headline reads as skeptical to me. Highlighting contradiction of a career politician in office for well over a decade being “something new”

How so? Can’t say I noticed that

The District 4 supervisor race will be nasty, brutish — and short The Sunset has a new supervisor — and a bruising, reductive and rapid election on the horizon

I’m generally a fan of Mission Local, so it’s disappointing when even they echo copaganda like “The SFPD staffing crisis is real and costs the city a fortune in overtime.”

A staff shortage is SFPD’s opinion, and the linked article itself attributes the overtime cost to “potential abuse.”

If there’s so little pedestrian traffic that this is significant, should the area have a train? Beg buttons slow down transit riders who by definition have to cross the street in at least one direction on their trip. The issue can be mitigated by road diets/separate signal phases (eg at Ferry Bldg).

Myrna Melgar on city hall steps

D7 supe and SFCTA chair Melgar echoes Fielder’s and other speakers’ point that Salesforce should not pay a lower effective rate than the corner store. Addresses “car people” mad about bike lanes: traffic will be much worse if we don’t have Muni and BART.

Chyanne Chen on city hall steps

D11 supe Chyanne Chen calls for a funding measure to not just balance the budget, but *grow* transit service. (The Muni Forever proposal would allow 10% service growth, while Lurie’s version would mostly lock in pandemic service cuts.) Leads a chant of “Muni Now, Muni Forever!”

Jackie Fielder speaks on city hall steps amid people with pro transit signs

At the #muniForever rally @jackiefielder.bsky.social calls on Mayor Lurie to raise the parcel tax cap for skyscrapers from $400k to 800k and eliminate tenant passthroughs. “As Muni goes, so goes the city.” Says if we don’t see movement in negotiations, we’ll be back with more to announce.

Jackie Fielder speaks on city hall steps amid people with pro transit signs

At the #muniForever rally @jackiefielder.bsky.social calls on Mayor Lurie to raise the parcel tax cap for skyscrapers from $400k to 800k and eliminate tenant passthroughs. “As Muni goes, so goes the city.” Says if we don’t see movement in negotiations, we’ll be back with more to announce.

It sounded great as a teenager. I was cured of my libertarianism the first time I had to work for a boss.

Humans inhale as much as 68,000 microplastic particles daily, study finds Particles are small enough to burrow into lungs, says report, with health impacts ‘more substantial than we realize’

Then use them because you don't want to get colds as often? Or inhale 68,000 microplastic particles a day?

"Hepa air filtration systems have been found to be effective at removing microplastics"

Jonathan Hale was arrested by LAPD today for painting a crosswalk, even as the city of Los Angeles funnels more money to LAPD and does gymnastics to avoid implementing HLA.

@mayor.lacity.gov, Jonny has made repeated attempts to meet with your office and has been iced out. Angelenos deserve better.

My kid's school has largely stopped using the classroom air purifiers that they bought in 2021, because (I'm told) they have no budget for replacing their air filters.

What are we *doing*?

Find out who controls the budget in question (school district, city council, county board of supervisors, etc). Make a letter writing campaign targeting those people to fix this. If educators are unionized, talk to the union about making it a demand in negotiations - this puts them at risk too.

Imagine all the Waymo failures that don't get videoed and shared on social media that we don't see. Tip of the (melting faster thanks to AVs) iceberg

Out of all the ridiculous things AV boosters say, I think "it'll solve congestion because the cars will be able to coordinate with each other" is the stupidest

Rookie mistake. Never allow cats to be at or above the level of the food you're eating.

Hmm it’s not really thaaat unlikely right?

But I guess ACT to BART to ACT is more likely since the service area is bigger

At SFGH for a candlelight vigil and memorial for Alberto Rangel, the social worker who was killed this week. This was predictable and preventable. It was a failure of systems and could have been any of the thousands of committed workers across DPH. We are all heartbroken.

It's not written yet. You and I are among its authors.

Before Clipper 2.0, the first Muni leg is $2.85, BART is $2.40, second Muni leg is $2.35 with 50 cent discount. Total: $7.60. After Clipper 2.0, first Muni leg is $2.85, BART is free with transfer, second Muni leg is free with transfer. Total: $2.85.

According to the calculator by @tsch.uy, Clipper 2 will fix this, launching on the 10th.

clipper2.hikingbytransit.com#adult#SF#BA;...

It seems if you take Muni to BART, then get off BART and transfer back to another Muni line, you don’t get the free Muni to Muni transfer. You get charged another $2.35 for the second Muni ride (ie, only the BART to Muni 50cent discount). I’m salty about this.

"They’ve issued familiar warnings that pinching the wealthy too hard will drive them from the state, along with the critical tax base they provide."

Ah yes, this must be why low-tax Ohio has been attracting all the rich people in recent years.

You seem to also contradict yourself by saying "the whole market experiences increased costs" from IZ requirements on new construction, but also telling Barbara the cost is "not coming out of your wallet" unless she lives specifically in a building that was required to provide IZ.

Isn't all of this equally true for the seller of any input to anything being produced?

You agree with me the tax incidence gets put on the land, but then, without using the word "incidence," you still insist it's the renter/homebuyer who really pays (which would mean the incidence is on them).

Getting word that LAPD & LAFD broke up a #peoplesvisionzero volunteer crosswalk painting in Westwood today - cuffed and ticketed at least one organizer

What is your evidence for the incidence of the tax (considering IZ as a tax) falling on the apartment renter/condo buyer rather than predominantly on the owner of developable land? Doesn't economic theory suggest the latter, since land is the least elastic input to development?

"actual thinking...is rare these days" is a very telling statement about what's making it into his filter bubble

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