it’s so cool how most LA politicians wake up in the morning and are like “how can I make it harder to build housing today”
Our only hope to make LA a well-run, pro-housing city is electing Nithya Raman as mayor
alternative, so it's a legitimate expenditure for the enterprise fund. This would require federal, state, AND local coordination, and obviously wouldn't be possible until a dem admin or even a dem trifecta (at which point god willing we'd be getting federal funding again too) but... maybe? Thoughts?
decade, on top of a $6.4B net position at the moment. Obviously, this isn't a silver bullet for HSR, but if you take half that profit and apply it to HSR, it could help get the LA segments started ASAP AND that money is effectively eliminating the need for some future LAX capacity by funding an
funding an alternative mode of transportation, then CA and/or the municipalities that control the airport enterprise funds can slate airport profits (currently being spent on horrible things like the zombie LAX roadway project) to CAHSR. LAWA projects between $600-900M profit a year for the next
not sure. The former would require a federal trifecta to change, the latter just a dem president). But whichever it is, existing rules control what that funding can be used for, and it's largely things very specific to the airports. HOWEVER, if that can be broadened to airport congestion relief via-
fund. The report insisted (pretty outside of its scope, tbh) that that money should be shifted to the city's general fund and said that there was nothing in the city charter that prohibits it. What actually DOES seem to prohibit it, however, is FAA rules. (Whether this is law or USDOT policy, I'm-
Here's an 'a bit out there' idea to pump way more money into CAHSR in the short term (2029 if we're lucky). When reading the grand jury report on the APM, they spent a lot of time focusing on how profitable LAX is and how the LAWA enterprise fund is extremely flush compared to the city's general -
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I think a lot of people in LA don't really know what the city attorney does or who even holds the office, but Feldstein-Soto is an absolute train wreck and replacing her with Marissa Roy is one of the most important city races this cycle.
>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade
What did he know?
how is this literally happening in real life
I have perhaps seen clue more than any other film and could watch it 100 more times without getting tired of Tim Curry’s performance
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
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the thai dessert place in there is awesome
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Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism
Man I fucking love jacarandas. One of LA’s best features.
Immediately won over a cat I was told didn’t like people. Undefeated as the cat whisperer.
Omg who do I need to yell at to get one of these at the bike signal at La Brea/rosewood?
Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.
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my favorite part of approaching forty is how sometimes you pick something up and then your shoulder decides that that's now a trigger for eye-watering pain
We are so far beyond even Teapot Dome levels of "government captured by private industry" in this country, and Democrats genuinely seem to believe their unpopularity is driven by being too nice to trans people, instead of being driven by their screamingly obvious hypocrisy about this.
yeah i think that's probably what happened. i think it succeeds as a piece of entertainment. the stop motion and the everything everywhere all at once editing (daniel kwan was a producer interestingly) are fun. as a piece of journalism though it's sorely lacking
it has a valuable conversation if that premise is true, but it's a *pretty fucking key premise* to just take for granted. Especially when, you know, a massive body of evidence points to it being patently untrue
