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I concede his point that rent control initially also leads to apartment-to-condo conversions. However, this leads to former renters earning equity in housing, which I contend is also a feature, not a bug. -fini-
Moreover, the rent control ballot question includes a provision that should increase housing stock: A 10-year rent control grace period on new building. I would argue housing scarcity creates an incentive to not build. Rent control changes that. ... 3/4
I would argue that there are multiple solutions to state funding, but only 2 to stopping the wild, investor-driven speculation (the other being more housing). In other words, slowing out-of-control housing prices is a feature, not a bug. ... 2/4
Re: Rent control
Normally, I love academics. Like journalists, they are usually dispassionate in trying to understand what's true. Not this guy. One of his arguments is that rent control halts out-of-control home prices, thus depriving municipalities of the taxes. ... 1/4
Interesting ...
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We've gone from the Best and the Brightest to the Worst and the Dumbest in 60 short years with a similar result. 🤦
2) Discovery in these cases can lead to policy change, where the government has been so far radio silent.
IMO, Big Tech is the new Big Tobacco and it's time they are treated as such.
I don't buy the free speech argument, but I was stuck with these thoughts after this piece from a UMass-Amherst prof. 1) It's now open season on the platforms, so how many cases do they lose before they change? ...
theconversation.com/two-verdicts...
2 things be true: 1) Murray's right; and 2) Expecting the current City Council to clean up a mess 42 years in the making is a huge ask.
(As I said this morning on @totcshow.bsky.social's The Rundown, "Credit to City Manager Eric Batista for cleaning up another mess left by a previous administration.")
Statement from Holden Town Manager Peter Lukes, with one final shot at the O'Brien and Augustus administrations: "I believe that had (Batistia) been in charge when all of this started, we could have resolved the issue much sooner and at a far lower cost to both parties." 🤔 1/2
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BREAKING: On @totcshow.bsky.social, Mayor Joe Petty says City of Worcester has signed a payment agreement with #Holden. $10 million due April 1st, then later payments of $10 million and 3 payments of $5 million.
NEW: The Mayor just told us that the City of Worcester, through City Manager Batista, and the town of Holden have signed a payment agreement over the sewer lawsuit. They have worked out a payment plan. Sounds like a $10M payment initially, but full details to come soon
Oof. Newspapers for years have documented the damage of raising prices for a diminished product. The only thing I can think of more damaging is to tell the customer an algo set their price using their personal data. I predict the destruction here will be epic.
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Pablo is one of the best in the business.
Telling Iranians, basically, "Rise up or we'll poison you" is no different than saying, "The beatings will continue until morale improves." #WhatAreWeDoingHere
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#Holden votes down MBTA Communities Act zoning by a vote of 520 against, 257 for.
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At Holden Town Meeting to vote for MBTA Communities Act zoning. (Don't get the reference, ask your kids.)
Just a lot of variables here: how hard you hit 'em, how many subs expense or deduct it, are you just chasing a number?, etc.
That said, I think you're right insofar as I feel they bounce between unique and ubiquitous. People will pay for the former, not so much the latter.
Yes, but papers like NYT and WSJ, and perhaps even the Globe, are experts in minimizing sub loss when raising prices. I think the latter is more likely, esp. since they appear to bounce between max reach and max subs, dramatically different content strategies that yield different results.
When USA Today, parent of the ProJo, T&G and many other New England papers, started trying to "chain" subscribers (a k a hiking prices or ending promos), it lost 30% of its digital subs. Ouch!
www.amediaoperator.com/news/usa-tod...
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Without Dan we probably would have never gotten this gem in "Sideways."
