Monthly Archives: August 2019
Huge construction truck honked, sped up, and gave me the finger as I crossed Main Street at the Pulse station *in the fucking crosswalk.* Every transit rider is a pedestrian, and every man in a truck is an asshole.
This year’s pickles were SO good that I’m sad I only made a couple jars. Next year, my goal is a dozen jars! PICKLES AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE.
I’ve started making parenting decisions by rolling a d20.
Possibly bad opinion: I think the Topgolf looks sweet from the highway.
NoBro’s affordable housing is affordable for whomst?
From this morning’s GMRVA; Roberto Roldan at Virginia Public Media, which is now the name of our local public media…group? collection of stations? squad?…looks into the affordable housing component of the proposed North of Broad development. Here’s the deal: The developer will build 80 affordable units by 2022 and then “the developer expects to build […]
Now that I’m back from vacation, where will I find two hours to ride my bike every day?
Using a TIF to subsidize affordable housing
From City Observatory: Portland’s tony Pearl District, adjacent to downtown, as blossomed in the past decade, adding more than 7,000 new residential units, plus offices and stores. The city’s policy has plowed tens of millions of dollars in the tax increment from new construction and rising property values into affordable housing in the neighborhood. That […]
From [Dear Disgruntled White Plantation Visitors, Sit Down.](https://afroculinaria.com/2019/08/09/dear-disgruntled-white-plantation-visitors-sit-down/):
The Old South may be your American Downton Abbey but it is our American Horror Story, even under the best circumstances it represents the extraction of labor, talent and life we can never get back. When I do this work, it drains me, but I do it because I want my Ancestors to know not […]