Desperately need to clean house in NJ DOT for many reasons.

Onshore wind remains illegal to build in Connecticut after being outlawed in ~2015. A decision that is long overdue to revisit

@willthomas-usa.bsky.social I feel like this must be incredibly triggering - dressing up Hudson County as Long Island City for a film shoot.

YES

Ok, I've learned the new Knives Out isn't playing at AMC and I'm pissed.

Will NY fix their broken outdoor dining laws? evgrieve.com/2025/11/city...

Now that we can talk more freely, this was a big problem I had with Bill O'Dea's approach of let's make an individual deal for each project. It was better than the alternative this year, but ultimately what works is to have www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/int...

viewfromthewing.com/scott-kirby-... Fight the EWR monopoly, and not with Spirit/Frontier either.

How can limiting the duration of motel stays have any effect but increasing homelessness?

www.northjersey.com/story/opinio... Katie Brennan publicly commits to improve housing and transit via taxing the rich. Although that's an interesting contrast to her beliefs on school funding, which are that wealthy homeowners in her district should get a tax cut.

This new data on tax base fragmentation shows massive disparities within Hudson County. You can see why: 1. Hoboken can afford so many fancy public works projects and Jersey City can’t. 2. Why Brian Stack bringing home state aid for North Hudson gives him so much power.

www.instagram.com/p/DRcb5qIkS5... You do the theory, and I'll do the praxis.

Rick Cotton is stepping down from the Port Authority. We need to pressure Hochul to appoint someone who cares about transit.

For Newark’s University Hospital, GOP Medicaid cuts will spread already tight budgets even thinner. This will strain hospital staff. It will close support programs. Your care will suffer. All to keep billionaires from paying their fair share of taxes.

My "the mall is not closing" shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by the shirt. www.tapinto.net/towns/east-b...

Goodman Group acquired the longtime site of the New York Daily News’ printing plant in Jersey City in 2024.

McGreevey trucks are back to parking illegally, they just can't afford video trucks anymore.

I think this is mostly San Francisco finally shrugging off the pandemic, but it is *really* funny that rent prices in San Francisco shot up *immediately* after the city banned RealPage and other algorithmic price setting software. My pre trends are incredible!

@glassbro.bsky.social Mark Cuban proposed on X replacing some ACA subsidies with HSAs.

www.youtube.com/live/ycrKeXs... Pretty big contrast to the one a week ago - standing vs. sitting has a big impact, but you can definitely see at points the weight of the past week on McGreevey. He acts like he's losing, and Solomon acts like he's winning. McGreevey lashes out a few times.

I've had multiple businesses in the past week tell me they don't have soap bc someone stole it. Regardless of whether or not they're telling the truth, something is very wrong.

MTA blames serial copper thief for hundreds of NYC subway delays https://gothamist.com/news/mta-blames-serial-copper-thief-for-hundreds-of-nyc-subway-delays

My fear is there's going to be talk of building more, but the next four years in NYC are just going to be the city council regulating away all economic activity.

sfstandard.com/2025/11/20/s... They're going to end up renting out a residential floor in one of the SoHo West buildings, right?

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

We are very lucky in NJ to have @fairsharehousing.bsky.social, which scrutinizes municipal fair share plans around the state, and sues the municipalities that screw around with their housing plans. thepressgroup.net/montvale-par...

"LeFrak carefully curates boutique retail."

Trump: He said some things that were very interesting and very interesting as to housing construction and he wants to see houses go up and apartments created. People would be shocked. I want to see the same thing.

Lots of differences, but if McGreevey wasn't littered with scandal, I wonder if the runoff would be considered a toss up like Hoboken's is. (I kinda disagree with that and think Jabbour should be slightly favored.)

A lot of the downtown vs. everyone else discourse is stuck in 2018. Look at an election map. If you live near PATH or the light rail, you're much more likely to be voting for a downtown candidate.

I'm not sure who needs to hear this, but I booked some hotels last week, and canceled and rebooked them this week because they're already doing Black Friday pricing. Many such cases.

Since I made this map mid-2024 Miami has added 5 new skyscrapers, NYC has added 3, tiny Jersey City has added 4, while Chicago, the city that invented the skyscraper, has completed no new towers. We need to pump these numbers up to put those whippersnappers in their place!

nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/21/d... I agree that McGreevey's behavior here was awful, but I disagree with the rest of this article. We need to be truthful - Solomon has a good council record on these issues, and would be better than McGreevey, but Gilmore has an atrocious record here and is no ally.

I am still getting Solomon mail, but nothing from McGreevey.

@tehoriman.bsky.social x.com/MattFriedman...

This will be hard to pass in the lame duck. www.nj.com/politics/202...

www.crainsnewyork.com/politics-pol... These rules would dramatically decrease affordable housing production.

Looks like a builder's remedy could be on tap for Summit, I can't wait. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The past few times I went to my gym, there was no one at the front desk. Don't think it's a coincidence that other things are going downhill there too.

I used a lot less electricity than last month, but my bill increased from $10 to $55, because the $50 election gimmick credit expired. Going to be some crazy sticker shock now, and in December when it's presumably much colder.

WMATA being fixed, while Georgetown being a NIMBY nightmare got Maryland a recruit. www.zagsblog.com/2025/11/19/f...

NJ Senate President Nick Scutari claims Dems are "not in a position" to pass a constitutional amendment that would allow them to redraw the state's congressional map. But Dems have supermajorities in both chambers & *gained* seats this month. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Yearly deaths caused by cars and trucks striking pedestrians rose 70 percent between 2010 and 2023, an examination of federal data and other public records by The Post shows.

Former mayor of Hopewell Twp, NJ, a lifelong NIMBY, has found a way to object to an inclusionary housing proposal by handwringing about a 50-year-old gas pipeline. Seems obviously motivated to me. Of course he gets a sympathetic write-up here. www.nj.com/mercer/2025/...

NJ gets a shoutout for coming up with the “builder’s remedy” idea.

This Ward D race is so cursed. reddit.com/r/jerseycity/comments/1p1kfwu/catherine_healy_thinks_jersey_city_renters_are/

Looks like Solomon won the ballot draw for the runoff, but all of his council candidates except Ephros lost it. www.hudsoncountyclerk.org/wp-content/u...

One underated thing is I think drivers are probably pissed at the endless useless Turnpike expansions that they don't want or need.