> and expect a full pension after eight years.

This bill doesn't change the eligibility for a full pension.

You're really on one about this for some reason, but the difference between you and a church or, say, JHU, is that a tax-exempt entity has every incentive to acquire adjacent property without a plan to use it, because there's no cost to carry it until a plan is developed.

And if those properties should fall into disrepair before there's a plan to use them, so much the better--I'm guessing JHU's going to hear a lot less opposition about whatever they decide to build at the corner of 29th & Maryland now that it's just a vacant lot than they would've while the houses were still habitable.

Midtown-Belvedere doesn't have vacants problem, this is just degrowth.

Not defending, it, just think it's more an editorial fuckup. Even if the guy's son had called them females it wouldn't have been appropriate for the headline, but it's weirder than that given that it's the reporter.

England, not GB (which would be England/Scotland/Wales). The match won't be hard to find, but I have no idea where you'd be most likely to find other kids.

...yes? Was just speaking to how it ended up in the headline (and thus thread topic) and how that's since been changed.

The reporters' tweet has a GFM link in one of the replies; the link (but not the tweet) purports to be run by this man's son, but other than there being a different picture of him in the hospital than what's run in the article, I'm not actually sure how you'd verify whether it's legit or not.

(also, reddit deletes gfm links as a site rule so just go to article, click author tweet and scroll down the replies)

well, the link and the headline were updated to correct that--the use of 'females' in the article was just a weird artifact of this dude saving at 16 year old girl and 48 year old woman. But it was just used descriptively, not quoting anybody, so not sure how it ended up in the headline bc ...yeesh.

Feels like this is the sort of question that gets asked every couple of years and there's no good answer. But if the length of time's the only reason you can't handle it on the street, might be worth looking on Nextdoor to see if anybody using a carriage house or similar for parking would let you rent it for a day or two?

Not entirely sure, tbh. Like I think daylighting the canal would've been great and compatible with both traffic calming and a bike lane (at the expense of parking), but with that and transit off the table I think I'd still rather have the bike lane in the middle of the road like the proposal for 33rd St. Then you could put the parking against the curb but have bumpouts to shorten crossing distances too?

The bike lane isn't the problem, it's putting two lanes of parking there. TBH I don't know the background of the places like Boston St. where there's street parking but only during non-peak hours, but I think it's a lot easier to imagine that being the next iteration of this design than a transit corridor. Just feel like this had the opportunity to be a really forward-looking design in a bunch of different ways and this is disappointing. But then honestly between my office moving out of Fells and the Broadway Market renovation, I hardly ever bike to Fells these days anyway.

I named the stats I was pointing to. 'Richest' isn't one. To put it another way: https://www.statista.com/statistics/248932/us-state-government-tax-revenue-by-state/

In terms of government capacity to build infrastructure (using tax receipts per capita), MD's basically as 'rich' as PA.

> 100% of the discourse surrounding gentrification is completely unproductive and

obviously self-contradictorily, you're sallying into a thread about the homicide rate to ally with the cryptoconservative who introduced the diversion.

the best option re: housing in terms of mitigating any socioeconomic precursors to crime should be centered around mitigating those disparities. A fun game to play when people talk about gentrification as a means to trickle-down equitization is to ask them if they support landlords being required to accept voucher tenants bc, well, you know the answer.

Not the richest state, highest median income. Maryland's around ~15th in terms of GDP per capita.

> Which... ya know... is completely justified when those they arrest never get prosecuted.

"The homicide rate is high because Marilyn Mosby won't prosecute sex workers!"

yeah, a friend's going through this now and IIRC $8500 was the lower of the two estimates he mentioned. My guess is that his system's gas but it wasn't changing in any case.

Yes, the gun violence rate is a systemic problem and needs to be addressed as such irrespective of the other ways society fails kids in Baltimore/parents need more support.

Well, this design is dumb--it's not like it's with the city's power to make MTA participate in making this a transit corridor, but given that they may as well have daylighted the falls rather than make two parking lanes.

You could restructure the SC with an act of congress, which as improbable as it looks in the nearterm is still a hell of a lot simpler than the alternative.

> The article goes on with quotes from businesses aghast at bike lanes.

And yet if push comes to shove if the option were two travel lanes or one travel one parking, they'd choose the latter every single time.

https://sbworkersunited.org/red-cup-map

The Charles St. location is at Preston, on the corner next to the Chipotle. But all 100+ of the stores that have won union elections are doing this today.

None of the unionized stores have a contract yet, which is part of the problem.

some additional context:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmbpa/starbucks-union-nlrb-cease-and-desist

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/17/1137296597/starbucks-strike-red-cup-day

Basically, it's only a one day strike, and the NLRB's trying to get a national injunction to stop Starbucks from doing any more anti-labor actions. I'm not sure what the prospect is for getting a real budget through before the end of the session, but it certainly doesn't look rosy. Love stepping on rakes.

Not sure why downvoted. Can't speak for this place specifically, but if you've got an odd item you want sharpened (like the blade from a paper cutter), 'small shop with a grinding wheel' is where you want to go.