brianboulet.bsky.social
I do law things for a living but never appear in court, and believe that Del’s Lemonade should at least be on equal footing with coffee milk as Rhode Island’s state drink.
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Another complete failure of the Fourth Estate. Why are we accepting the premise that any of this will lead to “long-term gain?” Isn’t it the media’s job to investigate that claim and inform rather than just report a he said she said?
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Two things that come to mind:
1. What’s the situation in Mass. with single stair reform?
2. Did the council address any FAR or setback requirements?
I know those are usually some big impediments to making 4-6 stories work on Cambridge-sized lots.
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Best thing the state, Providence, Pawtucket and Newport can do is liberalize zoning and the building code to allow small condo buildings and triplexes on small lots. Invite the RI middle class to live in a functioning city and leave places like Johnston with their shoddily built raised ranches.
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The single best thing the state could do is rescind its delegation of land use to the municipalities. Shekqrchi hinted at it a while back. That’s the only way to put an end to this nonsense.
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We need some Tom Nichols scotch and bourbon tasting & review content to get us through these dark times!
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Wonder how much of this is “I’m for Trump” vs. any attachment to the Republican Party without him. Guess the midterms will tell us whether his support extends to anyone else with an R next to their name.
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By “reinterpret” you mean “disobey 120 years of Supreme Court precedent.”
Call it out for what it is. US v. Wong Kim Ark is over a century of settled law.
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Goes to show you (as if it was ever debatable) that the republicans’ issue with NPR and PBS is that both aim to create an informed, engaged, and cultured citizenry.
They have no problem holding the steering wheel on a tailor-made indoctrination device.
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Unless and until there’s a wholesale change in statewide zoning and changes to the building code to allow 3+ story multi-family on small lots that housing start number won’t move. No amount of money can fix it, just (nonexistent) political will.
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If my map reading skills are what I think they are, looks like the true dividing line is the Pocasset River.
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Because, you know, republicans are special snowflakes who would whine if you told the truth and said “Trump targets the Constitution by aiming to end birthright citizenship.”
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Interesting. In any event, certainly more effort paid toward eliminating potential financial conflicts of interest than the incoming administration!
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Thanks for pointing that out. He put it in a blind trust.
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Ah, I see the debt ceiling will only be a cudgel against democrats from now on…
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While there’s going to be a lot of terrible stuff in Trump 2.0, the Postal Reorg. Act of 1970 states explicitly that the USPS shall be a government service. I don’t see 218 GOPers in the house to change that and screw over the rural constituents, let alone the Senate.
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Good luck with that. Here’s 39 U.S. Code § 101. Would take an act of Congress to privatize and I imagine a bunch of rural reps and senators from rural states aren’t chomping at the bit to make the mail significantly more expensive for their constituents.
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As I’ve said before, best thing the state could do is take zoning power back from municipalities. @mnolangray.bsky.social highlights in his book that Japan has a nationwide zoning reg with 12 zones with accommodative setbacks and floor area ratios. Municipalities can pick which ones to use.
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Like weightlifting, housing production needs to be incremental and consistent to have the desired effects, and we haven’t done that in New England since the 70s.
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And to your point, it ultimately distills down to a supply issue. Second homes and short-term rentals wouldn’t be crowding out primary homebuyers to the degree they are if there was sufficient supply to meet demand.