Header: "I'm the founder of Strong Towns, a national nonpartisan nonprofit trying to save cities from financial ruin."
My name is Chuck Marohn, and I am part of (founder of, but really, it’s grown way beyond me and so I’m part of) the Strong Towns movement, an effort on the part of thousands of individuals to make their communities financially resilient and prosperous. I’m a husband, a father, a civil engineer and planner, and the author of two books about why North American cities are going bankrupt and what to do about it.
Strong Towns: The Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity (https://www.strongtowns.org/strong-towns-book) Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town (http://confessions.engineer)
How do I know that cities and towns like yours are going broke? I got started down the Strong Towns path after I helped move one city towards financial ruin back in the 1990’s, just by doing my job. (https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/7/1/my-journey-from-free-market-ideologue-to-strong-towns-advocate) As a young engineer, I worked with a city that couldn’t afford $300,000 to replace 300 feet of pipe. To get the job done, I secured millions of dollars in grants and loans to fund building an additional 2.5 miles of pipe, among other expansion projects.
I fixed the immediate problem, but made the long-term situation far worse. Where was this city, which couldn’t afford to maintain a few hundred feet of pipe, going to get the funds to fix or replace a few miles of pipe when the time came? They weren’t.
Sadly, this is how communities across the United States and Canada have worked for decades. Thanks to a bunch of perverse incentives, we’ve prioritized growth over maintenance, efficiency over resilience, and instant, financially risky development over incremental, financially productive projects.
How do I know you can make your place financially stronger, so that the people who live there can live good lives? The blueprint is in how cities were built for millennia, before World War II, and in the actions of people who are working on a local level to address the needs of their communities right now. We’ve taken these lessons and incorporated them into a few principles that make up the “Strong Towns Approach.” (https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2015/11/11/the-strong-towns-approach)
We can end what Strong Towns advocates call the “Growth Ponzi Scheme.” (https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme) We can b
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I think most people have a pretty decent bullshit detector. They’re never perfect, but given a long enough time to speak people will be able to tell if they’re being bullshitted to or not. I feel like the Democratic and Republican Parties are both horrible. There’s no such thing as a real debate on the debate stages, the news media is so obviously biased to a point of lying, and people are tired of being told what to do with their children regarding vaccines. I live in NYC, and I’m not saying there aren’t minority right wingers, but I definitely notice a lot more of them getting sick of the Democrats. The insanely fake and narcissistic sounding corporate propaganda just isn’t gonna work. I really doubt that it’s gonna last much longer than a few more years. There’s obviously not much better of an alternative in the Republicans, as they’re just as dishonest and tribalistic, however I would say a bit more genuine feeling which is why I believe they’re gonna end up winning 2024. But I think at the end of the day, Andrew Yang has a great idea in the Forward Party because, even if not everybody has noticed it yet, it basically feels like we’re entering a society of real people, real conversations, and real attempts at finding an answer vs corporate woke-ism and crony unfair capitalism with rules that are terrible for everyday people but great for large corporations.
Most of our federal and state legislators are elected from districts. Every ten years, state governments redraw district boundaries in a process known as redistricting, or community districting. It's happening right now, and it will have a major impact on the issues we care about for the next decade. Where are we at in this process? What do citizens need to know? Join us at Campaign Legal Center for an AMA about community districting!
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Been seeing a lot of posts about various groups that might or could be attending, and so I thought I'd attempt to bring us back on track here.
We're all protesting and marching due to the insane costs associated with our housing market and how it punishes hard-working Canadians across all income levels. There seems to be some bad faith actors amongst us stirring up doubt in which groups of 'undesirables' will be amongst us, and this appears to be picking up leading to the protests.
Show up, wear your mask, take COVID precautions seriously (even if it's outdoors), wear red and white, and do not lose your resolve. We're going to have opinions across the political spectrum here, but the main goal remains unchanged. This is about housing, and how it needs to be fixed across all levels of governments.
hey guys what do you think about this?
https://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/article254937192.html
https://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/article254928697.html
the proposed amendment to make the pierce country prosecutors office nonpartisan? what do you guys think?
i can't make heads or tails of it, what are the pros and cons of making the pierce country prosecutors office nonpartisan?
thank you
