Brutal, in Britain

Los Angeles mayoral race

Calgary, AB and the Housing Accelerator Fund zoning dispute, h/t @amandalhu.bsky.social livewirecalgary.com/2026/02/11/c...

This is a housing growth project This is a manufacturing growth project This is a commercial tower growth project In Winnipeg (Also, an environmental project!)

Denver, CO

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I'm going to have TARIFFS for dinner It'll help me get through a bad case of TARIFFS

Montreal

Sign up for local govt! It's great, you get a 1/10th of the resources of a provincial govt, but everyone will keep talking as if you're responsible for everything all the other governments do, combined!

I've got a bunch of '20s-'40s headlines on my office wall as decoration, some local, some US. Having this Police HQ inquiry go on in the background while we are working at City Hall 17+ yrs later is very strange; the fact that my eyes fell on this header while taking a call about it, even stranger.

Trying to remember the last point at which I was sure humanity's trajectory was "better" instead of "worse." I think I'm gonna go with somewhere around August 2019. You?

"The grass is always greener on the other side of the 49th Parallel."

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Our sister city is spared! Thanks to the Armed Forces of Ukraine

New York City fiscal

Maybe that guy should try working with his colleagues for a change

Rapid transit, in Buffalo, NY

It was ever thus, in New York City

Baltimore County, MD

Housing Commissioner Needs Housing, in New York City www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/11/d...

I'm gonna write that section of the book tonight. I don't even really need to write it, just resequence what I had. But I'm gonna need a short, two hour nap first.

If you'd asked me in the first fifty years of my life if the US habit of using grand juries was a waste of time and money, I'd likely have said, "grudgingly, yes." But sometimes, at crunch time, an old-fashioned institution can just leap out of the grave and prove its worth all over again...

Los Angeles County

No I'm not gonna weigh in on that obvious mistake. No, no I'm not. I'm gonna save it for later. No.

Victoria, BC metro

San Diego, CA

Current activity

NYT Headline

Mayoring, under the Trump

Milwaukee, WI and policing tech

The Dominion strikes back

Chicago

Kelcey's Law at work, in Kelowna, BC

Residential segregation, in India www.nber.org/papers/w34818

It will always be winter, and never Christmas oh wait

San Diego mayoral race

Bot policing, in Mexico. Woof woof.

Kitchener-Waterloo, ON

Irish housing, h/t a skeptical @emmet.quiddity.ie

Hint: there are meetings, but no "talks"

4:19am. "No son, there is no monster in the family room." But did I check? No. Maybe there is...

Chicago, and budget gimmicks

Saanich, BC and mayoring

Metro Manila

I saved this post in my draft folder and then I brought it back to life and posted it. A resurrection. Incredible.

Winnipeg, MB.

San Antonio, TX

My original plan was to build, own and operate a giant foosball stadium in four countries simultaneously, in Brazil, Germany, Thailand and Canada. But be advised that I've adjusted my plans so now I'm only gonna build in Belize and Kosovo because it's more realistic. Thx for your investment dollars.

It's Infrastructure Week in America

Billions for defence, but not one penny for tribute