I remember the moment when I saw through J.D. Vance. It was during the V.P. debate. He said, “You have got housing that is totally unaffordable because we brought in millions of illegal immigrants to compete with Americans for scarce…
Lots of media coverage has centered on Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to get fast and free buses. Less coverage has been focused on his consistent messaging in favor of making biking safer and more accessible in New York City. The mayor can…
Note: This essay appeared in my newsletter. If you’d like to receive the next one, subscribe here. Zohran Mamdani Got The Little Things Right I first heard of Zohran Mamdani last summer. I saw him in a video on Reddit. He was being…
A few months ago, my neighborhood got a new protected bike lane. I was happy. Protected bike lanes mean I (and others) get to not die when I ride a bike. In the wake, so many of my neighbors commented,…
Note: This piece originally appeared in my newsletter. One of my first weeks in the garden last year, I walked in and saw a group of half a dozen older gentlemen sitting around the long table. From a distance, I noted…
Amtrak has had issues from the day it formed, decades before I was born. So in some ways, Amtrak isn’t in any more “trouble” than that day, when Congress created it to pick up the pieces of failing private rail…
I’m not an urban planner. I didn’t go to school for it and I don’t plan to. Yet, I’ve become fascinated with how our built environment impacts our lives. And that’s not something I think anybody needs a degree to…