by Ed Driscoll Spiraling in San Francisco’s Doom Loop. What it’s like to live in a city that no longer believes its problems can be fixed: A note to my fellow San Franciscians: I’m sorry. I know. There’s always some story in …
via harbingersdaily: Over the last few years, something awful happened in America. The war on poverty morphed into a vast, shameless, and cruel war on poor people themselves. Governments created a regulatory environment where the well-heeled thrive, but the poor haven’t …
Shot: The Tragedy of Portland: ‘It’s a Ghost Town, Except for Zombies.’ For seven months, Dylan Carrico Rogers slept in his bike shop with a shotgun. TriTech Bikes, located in the Montavilla neighborhood of northeast Portland, Ore., where Rogers grew up, had …
by Ed Driscoll Shot: Walking through San Francisco, I kept thinking of the words “global capital flows.” And “flow” seems just right: There is a sense that all that big new money just washed over this rickety old city, a rising …
Newly released email reveals Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot dressing down staffer. Just got this email via FOIA — more insight about City Hall staffing/turnover/culture under Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Read our May story also https://t.co/pCGx8WsSOy https://t.co/4k0vKVuykv pic.twitter.com/kBMBMhFBse — Gregory Royal Pratt …