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Trump admin revokes the planning grant money for the Texas Central Bullet train project. It’s dead for the next four years 🙃

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Uh oh.

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Saw a snake on my lunch walk today. Good reminder I’ve left my office and entered his.

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For those locked out of home ownership, what does RedFin's Chief Economist suggest? YIMBYism. See my full interview on her new book: collegetowns.substack.com/p/8-lessons-...

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But many universities are getting further pinched now and can't bridge fund - Budget cuts despite state surpluses - loss of international student tuition - uncertainty over student loans - state-mandated tuition freezes

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Condo in Florida with insane $1,225/ month HOA! Guy can’t sell it. Not even in Miami Beach or something. Nuts.

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This is like NIMBYism but for jobs.

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This is why the real answer is giant boulders and traffic circles. These kinds of drivers only respect damage to their own cars. open.substack.com/pub/colleget...

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Compare the lane approaches in my US roundabout to the Dutch one below. Design shapes behavior. Dutch 🇳🇱 roundabouts use mostly straight approaches, encouraging slower, safer navigation. 👍 American 🇺🇲 roundabouts curve the entry, promoting speed and reducing safety for everyone. 👎

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NIMBYs who live next to San Diego State trying to derail new student dorms by saying it’s an unsafe hazard. It’s right next to campus! If it’s unsafe, everywhere is unsafe. open.substack.com/pub/colleget...

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Why does spellcheck absolutely never understand that I want to write "Definitely?"

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Energy is Michigan State’s biggest sponsor. In 2024 DOE funds accounted for $158 million of MSU’s research expenses.

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You know who's going to hurt? The U.S. tourism industry, which includes companies and workers in deep red states and counties (e.g., near national parks)

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More places should be like the Masters: No Phones Allowed. collegetowns.substack.com/p/more-place...

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Would be really nice if they showed it by not driving for small trips, not harassing people on bikes and not opposing new bike lanes.

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If anyone wants to cycle from Bonn to Strasbourg (via St. Goar, Mannheim, and Karlsruhe) in support of students from Serbia on #TourdeStrasbourg, they can get in touch with these guys. www.instagram.com/studenti_nrw/ It's a page by a group of Serbian expats living in NRW

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You spent six figures on a steel wedge to crush pedestrians and conquer chaos, but a traffic bollard in NYC said “no.”

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Here’s what tariffs and protectionism bring to the US market.

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More bad news for higher ed: my college's staff/ faculty intramural basketball team has fallen to 0-3.

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"San Diego is replacing a lane of parking downtown with a greenway that will feature a row of trees, a rocking bench, and children’s play infrastructure."

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The roadway treatment your city's traffic engineer doesn't want you to know about.

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Lol this is pretty good

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As Trump runs out of tariff cards to play against China, my fear is he goes after international ed, banning Chinese students from coming to US universities. Would be disaster so not unthinkable for this admin.

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Deporting international students for social media posts is un-American. My latest in College Towns: open.substack.com/pub/colleget...

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This is like if Sega was run by James Robotnik.

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I was interviewed by the U.S.-China Perception Monitor, part of the The Carter Center, covering some of my recent writing/ work on China. I discuss the meaning of RedNote, DeepSeek, and student exchanges between the countries. uscnpm.org/2025/04/08/r...

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A journalism student ghosted by too many buses found me through my blog and asked some questions about #transit in the South Bay (LA). I posted my answers. Hope you find them useful, too. badmomgoodmom.blogspot.com/2025/04/scag...

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Can we put a tariff on spam robocalls?

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"The average market-rate apartment in California is roughly 2.5 times the cost of a similar apartment constructed in Texas on a square-foot basis ... costs in the San Francisco Bay area are roughly 50% higher than costs in San Diego." www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

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They revived Dire Wolves before George R. R. Martin finished his books.

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A smart piece by @politicsanded.bsky.social on how the ongoing attacks on US higher edu. and international students undermine key US policy goals, including protecting free speech and counterbalancing trade deficits.

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How do we get more kids walking to school? One intersection at a time. Raised sidewalk, curb bump outs, boulders, flower beds. This is how you do it. collegetowns.substack.com/p/making-sch...

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Now here’s a LEGO set to inspire a new generation to appreciate good urbanism.

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Fine, we want manufacturing to come back to the US, where are we building our Shenzhen?

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Fine, we want manufacturing to come back to the US, where are we building our Shenzhen?

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What a year this was

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Cheap flexi poles are a policy failure. They don't work because drivers don't respect them. We need real infrastructure. Must damage cars if driving stupid.

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RIP to another campus. This one may just be a branch campus but it still was a handsome structure--one that was new! collegetowns.substack.com/p/handsome-a...

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