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When cities offer "Road Closure" or car-free streets as a one-day treat do city leaders ever think to offer that treat all the time? People are speaking with their feet. Their feet are saying, "enough with every street throughout our city being a playground for people in cars. We want this too!"

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Being more mad online than the next guy will not help anything right now

submitted 126 days ago • 6 comments

Randy Foster has worked at New Seasons for 19 years. At 1:30pm today mgmt fired him for “violating Oregon break laws.” His infraction, helping a blind coworker close out his till while on lunch break. By 3:15 his coworkers walked out the Arbor Lodge store demanding reinstatement.

submitted 129 days ago • 24 comments

It isn't about finding 'replacements' for Gaiman and other creatives that get exposed for their monstrous bullshit. It's about pulling away from idolatry. If work resonates with you, that's fine. It does not connect you to the creative in a way that demands blind fealty.

submitted 144 days ago • 22 comments

there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

submitted 147 days ago • 81 comments

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

submitted 148 days ago • 330 comments

“If we remove on-street parking, all of our customers will go away.”

submitted 166 days ago • 5 comments

Cannot believe we let this happen. WTAF

submitted 172 days ago • 9 comments

In 2009, at the height of the financial crisis, Obama met with bank CEOs and told them his administration was “the only thing between you and the pitchforks." For too many years, that’s how the Democratic Party has seen itself in relation to industry. But it’s time to join the pitchforks.

submitted 182 days ago • 8 comments

This video is for Doug Ford, and all those in my replies saying bike lanes "stop emergency vehicles from getting to their destination". They *allow* emergency vehicles to get to their destination, as seen here on Adelaide. They were designed with emergency services in mind.

submitted 184 days ago • 12 comments

Because these happen off of public roadways, none of these deaths are included in FARS (Fatality Analysis Reporting System) and are often not included in local crash data. Every driving trip poses a risk, some vehicles pose higher risk than others.

submitted 188 days ago • 0 comments

#pdx New Seasons strike today.

submitted 192 days ago • 1 comment

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

submitted 193 days ago • 732 comments

America is a nation with a history of maniacs, from its very beginning, who have looked at something they haven't liked and fought against it. Over long, long odds and fought and won and fought more.

submitted 193 days ago • 1 comment

How was your day honey did you distill the zeitgeist into any droll quips

submitted 316 days ago • 11 comments

NEW: Swiss voters have rejected a $5.6 billion plan to expand highways. The plan's proponents claimed it would relieve congestion, but voters realized that wasn't true. www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-po...

submitted 195 days ago • 14 comments

"Why did it get so expensive to live in Oregon?" Chart in the new report from the state's affordable housing agency captures it www.oregon.gov/ohcs/about-u...

submitted 196 days ago • 2 comments

Dear liberals, if you want Republicans to accept that trans people are normal, you will have to treat trans people normally

submitted 197 days ago • 20 comments

Inevitability isn’t inevitable. We need to celebrate and build on every victory.

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

The Democrats blaming "identity politics" are, I think, trying to avoid hard conversations about the party's failures on economic and urban policy

submitted 199 days ago • 11 comments

My biggest pet peeve about public transit policy is when its only purpose is seen as commuting to work. A good transit system is there to support all kinds of trips at all times of the day, not only office commutes. Groceries, football games, coffee shop trips, concerts, etc.

submitted 199 days ago • 45 comments

About 20 years ago, I was in a grad school class where we had a discussion with a Parisian city planner. Bikeshare in Paris had just launched. He said, "Parisians will never give up their cars." When I start getting frustrated about progress, I think of that conversation.

submitted 199 days ago • 8 comments