The account I used to share my nature photography is gone. Deleted. With no warning and no explanation. I can't imagine I violated community guidelines (too many bird photos?). And it's impossible to get in touch with real tech support there. A labyrinthine mess.
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John Pattison
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The very last thing my town needs right now is more parking. It's probably the last thing your town or city needs too.
New from , the story of how abolishing parking mandates put #FayettevilleAR on a path to prosperity and resilience.
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"We will have a strong and prosperous nation only when we have strong cities, towns and neighborhoods. That kind of prosperity cannot be imposed or engineered from the top; it must be built slowly from the ground up." -- 3/3
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The Suburban Experiment is a fiscal disaster, relies on subsidies and government intervention, abandons ancient city-building wisdom inherited from our ancestors, and frays the social fabric of our communities. 2/3
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Ending the Suburban Experiment ≠ ending the suburbs. IMHO, conservatives should be in the vanguard of the movement. 1/3
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Pretty despicable behavior on the part of to mislead the public on a $5 billion highway expansion project. Yet and other Oklahomans were not to be deterred.
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To push through a $5 billion highway expansion, the Oklahoma DOT directed the purchase of several web domains that could have been used by locals in their efforts to stop the project.
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The morning was like gold, but it also looks good in silver. Which do you prefer?
#nikoncreators #oregoncoast
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"[H]ousing is a particularly cruel game of musical chairs, because the way you get a better chair is by being rich. And those who end up without one—the absolute losers of the game—are literally homeless."
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"Affordability for the masses will live or die not by what we build this year or next, but by what happens to the price of homes that already exist..." Great piece from my colleague on the cruel game of housing musical chairs.
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Reminds me of this 2018 article by my colleague Rachel Quednau on why "development-oriented transit" is superior to "transit-oriented development."
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"Don’t just add trains, bikes, and sidewalks. Realize that every mode of transit needs a certain kind of built environment, a certain kind of ecosystem to work."
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"Just Add Water" means you'll be drinking weak hot cocoa. Similarly, "Just Add Transit" isn't a recipe for prosperity. At best, it's watered-down urbanism. At worst, a financial disaster. That's why I love this article from and .
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Absolutely captivating discussion between and on this week's episode of the Podcast. "O.G. Bitcoin" and "Jazz Hands Bitcoin" will be forever in my lexicon. 👐
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The crypto story is moving pretty fast. I'm inspired by OG Bitcoin but am appalled by the get-rich-quick, casino game of Bitcoin(TM) Jazz Hands. Same goes for my guest this week on the , Ben Hunt of
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Genuine question: What happens when you play "Downeaster Alexa" -- my favorite Billy Joel song (because I want to be a man of the sea) -- through an Amazon Echo?
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Reading the new book Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia. The first example is a poor start.
"This stroad, now a... stroad."
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1. Wendell Berry
2. Thomas Merton
3. Wallace Stegner
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What author do you have the most pages of writing by (ie takes up the most space on a shelf)? I think for me it's:
1.) Dante
2.) Marx
3.) Italo Calvino
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In fact, with costs rising, our household has declared next year "The Year of Thrift." We are tightening our belts. Rather than complaining about it, we've decided to embrace it, even celebrate it, and get creative.
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The experience describes in mirrors my own family's experience. Our grocery list doesn't change much from month to month, so comparisons are simple. Everything we're buying costs $1-$3 more now than it did a year or two ago.
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He’s not wrong.
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I'm a simple guy from the hills of West Virginia, but it seems to me that someone who, for whatever reason, says that we need to "terminate all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution" is not someone who can take an oath to uphold the Constitution.
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Did you see this, ?!
There's a growing conversation about how towns and cities become stronger, safer, and financially resilient. Local leaders like Strong Towns Baltimore are shaping and expanding and putting that conversation into action.
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Tell me parking mandates are squandering land that could be used more productively without telling me parking mandates are squandering land that could be used more productively:
This is the Willamette Town Center in Salem, Oregon. At noon. On Black Friday.
#BlackFridayParking
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It’s time to roll back parking minimums. The Salem Walmart parking lot is half-full, even on Black Friday.
#blackfridayparking #endparkingmandates
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When kids are doing donuts outside the mall on Black Friday, you know you have too much parking. C’mon, , it’s time to #endparkingmandates. #BlackFridayParking
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Based on what I’m seeing so far, we’re letting #FriedaPark down this Black Friday. Again.
We may need to rethink all these parking mandates. Just a hunch. #BlackFridayParking
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Mandates have created more parking than can be used even on the busiest shopping day of the year. Rather than allow all the vacant pavement to make parking minimums look *foolish* or *wasteful* we made this advertising campaign to get people to park more! #BlackFridayParking
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BREAKING: City of Anchorage, AK has voted 12-0 to remove parking requirements citywide.
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Mandates have created more parking than can be used even on the busiest shopping day of the year. Rather than allow all the vacant pavement to make parking minimums look *foolish* or *wasteful* we made this advertising campaign to get people to park more! #BlackFridayParking
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"As reported by The Globe and Mail, residents spent a total of $181 million at curbside patios within 13 weeks of summer in 2021. If those spaces had remained dedicated to parking, only $3.7 million would have been reaped during the same time period."
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The difference between this shot and the last one was about 90 minutes and about 9 miles.
Nikon Z7ii + 24-120 f/4 S
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The weather in PDX on Sunday a.m. was beautiful & dynamic. This is what it looked like just after sunrise at the Hawthorne Bridge. But when I looked downriver I could see gathering fog, so I got in my car and drove north.
Nikon Z7ii + 14-30 f/4 S
#portlandoregon #nikoncreators
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With Donald Trump poised to announce another run for the presidency, it seems appropriate to quote WORLD’s analysis from a month before the 2016 election, when the Access Hollywood tape went public. Here’s some of what I wrote:
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From a moody morning at Eilean Donan Castle.
#eileandonancastle #scotlandiscalling #visitscotland #nikonzfc #nikoncreators #nikonusa
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My answer even if I didn't work for . Last year I bought copies of this book and the transportation-themed follow-up for all my city councillors. I love my town, both for what it and for what it could be; I want my city leaders to know this stuff.
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If you could send your city council one book, and know they’d all read it, what would it be?
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Find yourself a magazine so full of good things you read it with a pen or pencil in hand. I recommend “Local Culture” from the good people at .
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