Mayor’s Political Machine Goes Into High Gear in Quest for Full Term - NYTimes.com
january 2012 by shawnbot
“Our alliance between business and labor allows the labor folks, who have the bodies, to work on the ground,” Mr. Courtney said. Meanwhile, a group organized by Ron Conway, a Silicon Valley investor, has raised close to $400,000 from the tech sector and is handling “the stuff that’s really expensive: mail, TV, polls,” Mr. Courtney said.
sanfrancisco
politics
ronconway
edlee
source:nytimes
january 2012 by shawnbot
Not Quite Copenhagen (New York Magazine)
march 2011 by shawnbot
“We will never be Amsterdam, never be Copenhagen,” says Hainline. “We are never going to be Portland.” The thing about how cities work is that just by saying those kinds of things often enough, opponents have a way of making it so.
nyc
politics
ppw
bikelanes
cars
culture
weinshall
source:nymag
march 2011 by shawnbot
Is NYC’s Bold Transportation Commissioner a Victim of Her Own Success? - Up Front Blog - Brookings Institution
march 2011 by shawnbot
'In a city that prides itself on being tough, her critics are pitifully crying that she hurts their feelings and she is not “inclusive” enough.'
jsk
politics
government
nyc
media
march 2011 by shawnbot
How one New York bike lane could affect the future of cycling worldwide | Matt Seaton | Environment | guardian.co.uk
march 2011 by shawnbot
Ding ding ding! "So, these are the elements: the mayor past his idealistic, reformist phase and, frankly, losing interest in anything except his favourable public image; a talented and motivated transportation commissioner whose forthright approach to innovative policy was once heralded as decisive and visionary, but is now labelled, by a fickle media, "tactless" and insufficiently consensual; an increasingly mobilised and organised "anti" lobby, which, though small in number, has disproportionate means and influence at its disposal; and compliant mainstream media, which either always saw progressive transport policy as inherently anti-car and suspect, or which was never that interested in the technocratic stuff but certainly now senses the mayor's loss of nerve and seeks to set the agenda by making mischief."
ppw
cycling
infrastructure
eir
bikelanes
law
politics
source:guardian
march 2011 by shawnbot
Streetsblog New York City » Opponents Sue City Over Prospect Park West Bike Lane
march 2011 by shawnbot
One thing is for sure: the NYC streetsblog commenters are a lot more on it WRT to legal issues than their SF counterparts.
nyc
cycling
eir
law
politics
ppw
bikelanes
source:streetsblog
march 2011 by shawnbot
There Are No Liberals on the Roberts Court - Garrett Epps - National - The Atlantic
december 2010 by shawnbot
"The fireworks and passion in this Court are all on the right. The moderate bloc tries to answer mildly, with reference to caselaw and to the record, while Scalia and Alito throw out fireballs for the op-ed writers to recycle."
source:theatlantic
scotus
justiceroberts
conservatives
law
politics
december 2010 by shawnbot
A Vegan No More | Voracious
november 2010 by shawnbot
It's really hard for me to believe that this wasn't written by a meat industry shill.
"I had only eaten a small piece of cow flesh, and yet I felt totally full, but light and refreshed all at once." Wow.
"We do not grow so much grain because we want to have factory farms; we have factory farms because we are growing such an avalanche of grain." Bullshit.
"Without organic matter to feed the plants and the hungry soil, the precious topsoil will die and nothing can grow, a fact of life we are seeing play out around the globe as the millions of fossil fuel dependent farms collapse." Riiiiight, because meat production isn't fuel-dependent.
No sources for any of these assertions; just straight up FUD intended to scare vegans and vegetarians, and mealy-mouthed justifications for meat-eating that go so far as suggesting that plants can't be grown without animals dying. What a crock of shit.
food
politics
vegetarian
veganism
meat
nutrition
fud
greenwashing
"I had only eaten a small piece of cow flesh, and yet I felt totally full, but light and refreshed all at once." Wow.
"We do not grow so much grain because we want to have factory farms; we have factory farms because we are growing such an avalanche of grain." Bullshit.
"Without organic matter to feed the plants and the hungry soil, the precious topsoil will die and nothing can grow, a fact of life we are seeing play out around the globe as the millions of fossil fuel dependent farms collapse." Riiiiight, because meat production isn't fuel-dependent.
No sources for any of these assertions; just straight up FUD intended to scare vegans and vegetarians, and mealy-mouthed justifications for meat-eating that go so far as suggesting that plants can't be grown without animals dying. What a crock of shit.
november 2010 by shawnbot
There Will Be Blood - NYTimes.com
november 2010 by shawnbot
"Right now, in particular, Republicans are blocking an extension of unemployment benefits — an action that will both cause immense hardship and drain purchasing power from an already sputtering economy. But there’s no point appealing to the better angels of their nature; America just doesn’t work that way anymore."
republicans
usa
budget
government
politics
economy
obama
author:paulkrugman
source:nytimes
november 2010 by shawnbot
Streetsblog New York City » Bike Lane Cranks Get Star Turn in Times Bicycling Feature
november 2010 by shawnbot
A wonderful response: 'The Times quotes Sicklick to illustrate “a simmering cultural conflict between competing notions of urban transportation.” I spoke to Sicklick for a few minutes and her notions about urban transportation seem to be of a piece with her notions about any sort of change. If it personally affects her, she’s against it.'
nyc
bikes
bikelanes
infrastructure
politics
re:nytimes
source:streetsblog
november 2010 by shawnbot
Wall Street, investment bankers, and social good : The New Yorker
november 2010 by shawnbot
"Much of what investment bankers do is socially worthless." Another great one via Lane.
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finance
usa
economy
greed
investing
investment
politics
banks
money
source:newyorker
november 2010 by shawnbot
What Food Says About Class in America - Newsweek
november 2010 by shawnbot
via Lane: "We have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap, and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food.”
food
local
nyc
politics
class
health
farming
source:newsweek
november 2010 by shawnbot
Energy Committee Chairman Candidate Says God Promised no More Catastrophic Climate Change after Noah | Informed Comment
november 2010 by shawnbot
Seriously: What. The. Fuuuuuck. Somebody needs to put a stop to fanatical zealots like Shimkus poisoning scientific congressional committees with their fairy tale bullshit.
usa
religion
climatechange
politics
science
johnshimkus
november 2010 by shawnbot
There's a "Ground Zero Mosque" In Every American's Backyard - Design - GOOD
september 2010 by shawnbot
"Let's turn this sudden interest in urban planning into a call to get involved at the neighborhood scale." Amen.
nyc
groundzero
mosque
politics
urbanism
planning
community
usa
author:alissawalker
source:goodmag
september 2010 by shawnbot
Streetsblog San Francisco » The Rationale for No Parking: A Q&A With the 1050 Valencia St. Developer
july 2010 by shawnbot
This is a really fascinating view into the development approval process in San Francisco. I agree that the complaints are ludicrous, but we can't just dismiss their fears and push the thing through because it's "right". How do we educate and negotiate with NIMBYs so that forward-thinking projects like this can go ahead, encouraging developers to build in the city rather than the suburbs?
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parking
politics
housing
nimby
culture
valencia
source:streetsblog
july 2010 by shawnbot
Next American City » Columns » When Transit Strays from Its Social Goals
july 2010 by shawnbot
"But BART’s effort to build the OAC comes in the context of a difficult fiscal environment; BART and other Bay Area transportation groups have had to decrease service levels because of declining tax revenues, and yet the agency picked as a priority for $70 million in stimulus funding the OAC over other projects that would be more cost-effective. For example, the East Bay BRT project, which would serve 40,000 passengers between Berkeley, Oakland, and San Leandro, was pushed aside in favor of the twice-as-expensive OAC, which could see a maximum of 15,000 daily riders."
oakland
bart
oac
transportation
transit
politics
source:nextamcity
author:yonahfreemark
july 2010 by shawnbot
Yes In My Backyard | Mother Jones
june 2010 by shawnbot
The commenters take Josh Harkinson to task here for glossing over the myriad reasons that voters rejected Sun Cal's development plan for Alameda Point. To wit: "I thought Sun Cal was the last thing Alameda needs, until I read this. Now I know that Josh Harkinson is the last thing Alameda needs."
bayarea
suncal
alameda
california
urbanism
density
development
politics
nimby
author:joshharkinson
source:motherjones
june 2010 by shawnbot
Democratizing the streets | San Francisco Bay Guardian
may 2010 by shawnbot
Steven T. Jones is my hero.
streets
cycling
culture
politics
sanfrancisco
sfbg
may 2010 by shawnbot
The Muni Death Spiral - SF Weekly
april 2010 by shawnbot
And there you have it.
muni
sfmta
sanfrancisco
transit
transportation
economics
politics
joeeskenazi
sfweekly
april 2010 by shawnbot
David Byrne's Journal: 02.01.10: The Good News and The Bad News and the Good news
march 2010 by shawnbot
"It was suggested by the gatekeepers that more artists and Parsons and SVA students etc. etc. who had ideas for city projects should come to them—maybe via Creative Time or other organizations (with whom I have collaborated more than once)…I wonder how many emerging artists would have the patience for the form-filling, waiting, and political stupidity that is involved in going via the gatekeepers—not many, I would think."
nyc
nycdot
art
design
city
politics
culture
davidbyrne
bureaucracy
march 2010 by shawnbot
The Thin Green Line : Bike advocates express knee-jerk 'concerns' about cellphone ban
march 2010 by shawnbot
Cameron Scott changed the title of this article after I pointed out Andy Thornley's statement on Streetsblog. It was originally titled something along the lines of "Bike advocates oppose cellphone ban". Who is this tool?
cycling
safety
driving
culture
advocacy
politics
sfbc
sfgate
march 2010 by shawnbot
Marching Muni Drivers Overwhelm 'March Against Muni' - San Francisco News - The Snitch
march 2010 by shawnbot
I feel kinda bad for the MAM folks.
muni
mam
politics
unions
twu
advocacy
sanfrancisco
transit
sfweekly
march 2010 by shawnbot
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