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April 3, 2024Jotting things down

No Commute to Office?

Our local business journal syndicated a brief interview with Richard Florida regarding his optimism about the future of American cities: https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/2024/03/28/a-revolution-amid-the-reckoning.html One […]

January 31, 2024April 4, 2025Public Correspondence

Comment on the Troy-Menands Bridge project

A man in a bicycle helmet, blue reflective sunglasses and a red windbreaker, in front of a railing overlooking a wide river, blueish gray in color with green banks.

NYSDOT has been working on a project to repair or replace the Troy-Menands Bridge, which carries NY-378 over the Hudson River between […]

January 25, 2024January 25, 2024In the news, Jotting things down

Affordability, but not that way…

This was in the Times Union a few weeks ago. I’m not surprised but am disappointed that this article didn’t bring up zoning at all.

https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/capital-region-legislators-concerned-housing-18594529.php

It’s not like it’s a non sequitur either. Hochul tried to get a prohibition on single family zoning into the budget last year.

This seems another example of where journalism fails to inform the reader, rather than merely reporting what people say without context, background, or asking more probing questions.