Anna Fahey

This is big! As goes #PDX metro, so goes the world 🌎

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Two photos. The first show JFK Jr. with Carolyn Bessette Kennedy walking their dog. The second shows JFK Jr. setting his bike against some pole.

Two photos. The first shows JFK Jr. wearing a navy suit and scarf as he exits a building while riding a bike. The second shows him walking in purple gym shorts, a black t-shirt, and some sneakers.

Two photos. Both show JFK Jr. walking with Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. In the first photo Carolyn Bessette Kennedy is wearing a black coat with blue jeans, while JFK Jr. is wearing a black vest, dark colored shirt, and taupe trousers. In the second photo, JFK Jr. is wearing a brown jacket with tan pants, while Carolyn Bessette Kennedy has a long charcoal coat and black boots.

Two photos. Both show JFK Jr. in sweats while rolleerblading. In one photo, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and a dog are with him.

Wrote something for @thetimes.com about why JFK Jr. is popular again. IMO, what you're admiring isn't just his handsome looks and style, but the fact that he lived in walkable urban neighborhoods and had enough time for exercise, hobbies, and a lover.

www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Just got word that the Tacoma planning commission advanced a motion to fully eliminate parking mandates citywide at their meeting tonight, by a 8-0 vote with one abstention.

If implemented, Washington's second and third largest cities would have both beat Seattle to eliminating parking mandates.

In #WA and in high school, that is!!

Paging all young Transpo nerds!

From @uytaelee.bsky.social who did one of the best videos on urban apts and circulation- here’s his new work on elevators. 🙏🏅

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

Read @adamserwer.bsky.social on elite impunity. IMO this is the biggest issue in US politics, the one that underlies all others. It gets too little discussion, because discourse is so heavily governed by precisely the elites who favor the impunity, but beneath the surface, pressure is building.

Had a lovely coffee and chat with Bend mayor @melaniekebler.bsky.social this morning. The city is growing like crazy but also rapidly densifying, adding bike lanes, reforming zoning, pushing back on new gas, etc. Fascinating case study & just a wonderful place.

Climate coverage is shrinking. We're expanding it. Announcing a new weekly video podcast!

the epidemic of men launching podcasts about nothing has gotten out of control

to combat this I am launching a podcast WITH A WOMAN (veteran climate journalist Tracy Wholf) to talk about stuff that actually matters (the planet being destroyed by the worst people alive)

Find subscribe links here:

That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

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While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.

www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...

Still image from the movie Dumb and Dumber. Two main characters Lloyd Christmas (played by actor Jim Carrey) and Harry Dunne (Played by Jeff Daniels) in the front seats of the van. Text over image reads: “no erasies no takesie backsies”

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Don’t look now, but this year’s condo reform bill has passed both houses of #waleg! 🎊 🎉

#HB2304 allows builders to provide a simpler 2-10 warranty (the same as offered for new-build oneplexes) for projects of up to 4 stories/12 units. The bill heads to the governor’s desk for signature.

Inject this content straight into my veins

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~Seven hundred yard dashes every hour?

Tacos are the easy part.

Wildfire hazard 🔥🚒 ⚠️ - My colleagues break down the rising costs of the northwest's sprawling development 🌲🚗🏠🌲

no **coinkidink**, that is

Missing in the middle of WA's middle housing: Elevators A bill still in play in the Washington Legislature would make elevators easier and less expensive to install in "middle housing" developments.

R U #elevator pilled yet?

Cecelia Black:
"I have navigated the housing market from a wheelchair...in 15 yrs as a renter, I never found an accessible apt in a bldg w/ fewer than 6 stories" It's no oincidence; it’s a design failure of WA’s codes" Attn: #WAleg
www.seattletimes.com/opinion/miss...

🚨 I have a new paper in @pnas.org! Big cities provide huge opportunities for workers to climb up the income ladder through their large number and diversity of jobs. Big cities also have higher racial wage inequality, which is getting worse over time.
#geosky #econsky
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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

A common refrain of progressive urban politics is that “new, ‘luxury’ housing will not help solve the housing shortage,” Henry Grabar writes. But, according to a new study, “more housing supply of all kinds leads to lower prices in general terms”:

VA needs housing that works for working families. I support:
• Faith in Housing (HB 1279 & SB 388)
• ADU Reform (SB 531)
• Parking Reform (HB 888)

Let’s lower costs, build homes, and strengthen communities. Urge your Delegates & Senators to support statewide housing reform.

Growth That Works for North Carolina - Carolina Forward Summary:

Reform advocates in North Carolina are going after parking mandates and stromwater regulations

carolinaforward.org/blog/growth-...

Have you wondered why exactly it is that single-family zoning leads to racial segregation? I wrote this little article to figure it out. I use an agent based model to show it is a combination of race-based wealth inequality, homophily, & clustering of housing types in zoning maps.

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Nearly half of L.A County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds Researchers have released the first parcel-level analysis to map all paved surfaces across L.A. County. In particular, large parking lots are ripe for change, they say.

“#Parking lots, Bucknum said, are one of the clearest examples of how excess pavement has become accepted, even as it makes everyday life worse for residents.”

www.latimes.com/environment/...