jordanfraade.bsky.social
Civil servant, urbanist, insufferable Brooklyn e-bike dad. My secret weapon is being a NYC chauvinist who actually likes other places too.
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In a state that depends on fuel oil for home heating!!!!
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Oh btw I look forward to the conflicts this spurs when neighboring jurisdictions have radically different sewage standards for their shared watershed.
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In all seriousness I do think the tax structure is a major flaw of the program — the premiums are taken out of paycheck after tax, you can have federal tax withheld from the disbursements but not state tax, and unlike almost all other states that have PFL programs, NY considers it taxable income.
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And the person who said this had a kid!!!!
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Also: Even if you have an employer who talks a big game about being supportive of families, when you tell them you’d like to take more time off and are entitled to do so by state law, you see really quickly if they’re telling the truth
I believe the phrase used in my case was “paternity vacation”
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Congrats man — there’s a reason I’ve always called you “Business Resnikoff” in casual conversation
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If you’ve got to have suburbs, Montgomery County (regional governance, consolidated school system and land use/housing policy) is obviously The Way
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Sewer socialism is something you’re hearing about more and more, and we’re looking at it very strongly
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To be clear this would be like a 98th percentile Bond movie in terms of quality
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Vichy Democrat
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(Not in NYC!)
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People with email jobs whose primary goal is to prove they’re not like those other people with email jobs
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::Woody Allen introducing Marshall McLuhan voice:: well I happen to have Lucy the Jewish schnauzer eating a piece of challah right here
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“Trump delights in publicly humiliating everyone who shamelessly sucks up to him” is legitimately the only good thing about him
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Before Jan 5 I would have agreed with you but it’s very clearly working, growing in popularity, and the MTA is already bonding off the revenue
She may surrender because of cowardice but I’m not sure she actually wants to kill it anymore
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Also good luck with the bondholders nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/05/t...
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Congress could pass a law rescinding the plan and Trump could sign it. Trump could withhold certain types of federal $ from NY unless it kills the plan. But FHWA can’t just kill a duly enacted state program they already issued a ministerial approval for. (Hochul could also surrender in advance ofc)
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I mean I’d expect no less from RDW
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We should all be so fortunate, when our meter runs out of time, to leave behind a group of reformers dedicated to continuing our work parkingreform.org/donald-shoup/