- US Bureau of Reclamation in 1966 building Blue Mesa Reservoir

EPA's Incident Command Posts are more serious than DOD's

Very happy to set 2025, the (hopefully) worst year of my life behind me

@sickoscommittee.org, I bring important information from the New Orleans Bowl. WKU's kicker appears to be the tallest player on the team and also wears #42 like he's a linebacker.

If we believe (rightly) that clean energy technologies have a ton of potential domestically, then there's little downside to O&G permitting concessions and facilitating export alongside big reforms to clean energy interconnection, T&D, and permitting. You either believe clean tech works or don't.

"The real question for Mayor Johnston is this: How many lives is Denver willing to sacrifice to preserve driver convenience? So far in 2025, we have lost 87 people — and counting." www.westword.com/opinion/sacr...

One big takeaway from Mamdani bringing YIMBYs into his transition is that advocates can often gain a lot of power by 1.) having useful answers to questions and accurate information 2.) being reasonably polite and pleasant to elected officials 3.) understanding the actual mechanics of government

A few years ago, I worked for the City of #Cupertino on a plan to convert a dead mall into a mixed-use center with hundreds of homes. Furious neighbors feared it would lead to overcrowded schools. Shortly afterwards, the district announced it would close schools due to falling enrollment.

When mad drivers tell you that you, a cyclist, don't belong on roads because you don't pay registration and the gas tax, show them the Road Damage Calculator. Compare, for example, the damage made by a small SUV and a longtail cargo e-bike. Very different orders of magnitude roaddamagecalculator.com

i think you can sub out 'warfare' for basically any genuine intellectual discipline here

Does Ohio have a regional soda? I grew up in Cincy which got Ale8 from Kentucky but I don't remember an Ohio specific one.

"The Little Book of Low-Cost, High-Impact Housing Solutions" identifies six key areas…" They include, “Creating preapproved architectural plans, reducing parking minimums, garage, and other design standards…”

Why are many U.S. cities building less? Why have they insisted on a "thicket" of regulations that make housing hard to build? In a new #EconJMP with Beau Bressler (beaubressler.github.io), we study how much of the answer lies with a forgotten federal program that taught cities to restrict growth

Here are walking vs driving conditions in Minneapolis. THIS IS A CITY CHOICE. This is not snow as it fell, but how the city chose to what to plow and where to leave the ice chunks.

Any recs out there for New Orleans? Things to do, places to eat or drink, fun urbanism stuff, Christmas specific things?

the ideal america for many people is an environment where the government can’t prevent you from committing crimes but can prevent you building new housing

Along 14th Street in Denver

This is a good example of how well-off senior staff at progressive nonprofits will reflexively advocate for their own class interests as suburban car owners but launder that position by sock puppeting low-income Black and brown people.

Marmont got zero rings

I read this morning that Penn Station serves more than 2x passengers per day as Atlanta Hartfield, the country’s busiest airport. So I had to map them at the same scale. 🤯

My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”

Every now and again, I like to repost this. Single Family and prohibition of mixed use (proprietors living above businesses) were invented in California and aimed at restricting Asian Americans. It's indefensible www.kqed.org/news/1184054...

Boulder, Colorado is a fascinating place

My all-time favorite newspaper correction:

Pictured: a prior generation's cookie-cutter housing

I asked ESPN Research and they asked Elias Sports Bureau and they looked back as far as they could (to 1978) and it would appear Jalen Hurts is the first player to ever commit two turnovers in one play. Isn't history beautiful?

Feel like army vs Kent state should be a bigger rivalry

I feel bad for the random guy they picked for this image

In 49 states it's just football...

Hoosier National Champions? They're your National Champions!

METAL

That was a quick trigger on "Bringing on the Heartache", they had that ready to go

Fernando Mendoza's backup is his brother Alberto, which means all the Indiana quarterbacks who didn't make the depth chart are below the Mendoza line.

Peace up, A-Town down

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

purdue lost to indiana 56-3 ucla lost to indiana 56-6 kennesaw state lost to indiana 56-9 purdue won 0 big ten games ucla won 3 big ten games kennesaw state would win 9 big ten games the math speaks for itself put the owls in the playoffs

Wow, have y'all heard about this "zoning" that might be getting in the way of housing production? Huge if true

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

"If 2025 were a scented candle"

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

RT if you're a Bob Marley fan.

Denver is really good at doing studies and making plans. If you want the city to do better at actually *implementing* those plans, please consider supporting the Denver Streets Partnership for #ColoradoGivesDay. Donate today at www.coloradogives.org/story/gtnd5f

Crazy to hear the broadcast directly say that two back to back fouls are nonsense and in no way fouls