“In my work with cities, one of my messages that resonates most is that the truth about the cities aspirations isn’t found in its plans and visions. It’s found in its budget.

A budget may be the most powerful public policy lever a Council has, and the most authentic one because It reveals so much.”

At least as important is putting in real guardrails so that the next Trump can act with impunity as this one has so far done.

Touchdown and two point conversion.

Blonde on Blonde. Bob Dylan

Given the value of a bar of gold, he's being bribed on the cheap.

They have a lot of leeway in terms of road widths, fire truck access and the like.

I have just seen them impose requirements on individual projects that were counterproductive.

Fire marshals have a great deal of power and my experience has been that they use it in ways that are bad for progressive land use.

The innovation wasn't 30 years. It was self-amortization.

The purpose, presumably, would be to reduce monthly payments. But such a mortgage would almost surely carry a higher interest rate. I suspect the savings will be negligible. And owners will build less equity.

I have never had a satisfactory explanation as to why they are separate systems.

Didn't work out so well for Amelia Earhart.

And worse, it is on top Booker Creek. Not near it, but on top of it.

Regulation of supplements is long overdue. Right now consumers have no idea what they're actually taking.