Public Meeting On the CSO Long Term Control Plan for the Gowanus Canal
Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Public School 32
317 Hoyt St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Doors open at 6:00pm
DEP will give a brief presentation at 6:30 followed by a question and answer session.
When there are heavy rains and the sewer system is at full capacity, a diluted mixture of rain water and sewage, also known as combined sewage, may overflow into local waterways as a combined sewer overflow (CSO). The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is developing a CSO Long Term Control Plan (LTCP) that will identify and evaluate alternatives to improve the water quality of the Gowanus Canal. In addition to developing alternatives through the LTCP process, DEP is currently working with the US Environmental Protection Agency under the Superfund process to site and design CSO retention tanks.
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Upcoming Meeting On Long Term Control Plan for Gowanus CSOs
Our antiquated combined sewer system regularly puts the "anus" in Gowanus. Come out and learn what the city's plans are to fix it, and contribute your own ideas. Should be ab interesting follow-up to the September meeting on the siting of potential CSO retention tanks that CB6 hosted.
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Citibike Is Coming!
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| The yellow areas will get Citibike before we do. |
By 2017 Citibike will have expanded into Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Gowanus, Red Hook . . . in fact all of CB6, as well as northern Manhattan, more of Brooklyn and parts of Queens. I can't wait!
And former MTA head Jay Walder will be running the show - that was a shocker.
Monday, October 27, 2014
CHA Meeting: Move-NY Presentation for Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens TONIGHT
Move-NY will give a presentation at the Cobble Hill Association's meeting tonight, and CHA has graciously welcomed Carroll Gardeners to the session. Move-NY is the new and improved incarnation of the Sam Schwartz equitable transportation plan, which would cut down on traffic, create a steady stream of funding for maintenance and improvement of our transportation networks, and more fairly distribute the toll burden throughout the city. It's a damn good plan.
All that and free snacks? You'd be a fool to miss out on this!
Friday, October 24, 2014
The Grand Bargain Clutches At Dems From Beyond The Grave
"It was always bizarre that a Democratic president would believe that an epic economic downturn was a good time to worry about deficits and try to strike a bargain to cut the Party's signature domestic economic achievement --- an achievement which had lifted massive numbers of people out of poverty. It was conceived as a "go to China" moment in which only a Democrat could cut Social Security without being demagogued by Democrats. Apparently it didn't occur to these visionaries that the Republicans were increasingly dependent on the elderly for votes and would be happy to demagogue the Democrats instead. Certainly no one should have depended on their honesty and integrity. There have been few more misguided initiatives than the relentless pursuit of a Grand Bargain during the president's first term. And the Party continues to pay a price for that mistake. Fortunately for the Democrats no bargain was actually struck and a light is now shining on the inequities in the funding stream for the programs and a new approach is slowly being accepted as the new agenda: raise the cap on social security taxes and raise benefits. If the Party puts that in its platform and really gets behind it, it might even win back the support of the elderly. And then the GOP will have a real problem on its hands. "
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-short-history-of-grand-bargain-and.html
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Ron Fournier Has Become A Parody of Himself
"Itinerant Rove-stenographer Ron Fournier, who once emitted a squid cloud of butt-hurt so opaque that Glenn Greenwald called him out for being a petulant crybaby, has written scads of tiresome columns earnestly urging Obama to be more leader-y. But his latest is the Platonic Ideal of a Fournier column, and the header captures the tone perfectly: "
http://www.balloon-juice.com/2014/10/24/fournier-cation-self-service-edition/
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Just In Time For The Weekend
This happened a few days ago, but I just got a chance to check it out: FXX launched Simpsons World , a site where you can stream every Simpsons episode ever aired. You just need a cable login, as with…
http://kottke.org/14/10/unlimited-free-streaming-of-the-simpsons
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Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems
This is the most important article you'll read today. I'm impressed that Newsweek ran this long and well composed piece. The excerpt below is not even the best part, which is the first half of the article detailing Schmidt and Cohen's visit to Assange in exile. Creepy.
www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447
"Google is perceived as an essentially philanthropic enterprise—a magical engine presided over by otherworldly visionaries—for creating a utopian future. The company has at times appeared anxious to cultivate this image, pouring funding into "corporate responsibility" initiatives to produce "social change"—exemplified by Google Ideas.
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"Google is perceived as an essentially philanthropic enterprise—a magical engine presided over by otherworldly visionaries—for creating a utopian future. The company has at times appeared anxious to cultivate this image, pouring funding into "corporate responsibility" initiatives to produce "social change"—exemplified by Google Ideas.
But as Google Ideas shows, the company's "philanthropic" efforts, too, bring it uncomfortably close to the imperial side of U.S. influence. If Blackwater/Xe Services/Academi was running a program like Google Ideas, it would draw intense critical scrutiny. But somehow Google gets a free pass.
Whether it is being just a company or "more than just a company," Google's geopolitical aspirations are firmly enmeshed within the foreign-policy agenda of the world's largest superpower. As Google's search and Internet service monopoly grows, and as it enlarges its industrial surveillance cone to cover the majority of the world's population, rapidly dominating the mobile phone market and racing to extend Internet access in the global south, Google is steadily becoming the Internet for many people. Its influence on the choices and behavior of the totality of individual human beings translates to real power to influence the course of history.
If the future of the Internet is to be Google, that should be of serious concern to people all over the world—in Latin America, East and Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, the former Soviet Union and even in Europe—for whom the Internet embodies the promise of an alternative to U.S. cultural, economic, and strategic hegemony."
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Complete The Harbor Ring
"The Verrazano was intentionally built with enough space for walking and biking paths, which Moses then ruled out, purportedly to prevent suicides. The firm that designed the bridge, Amman and Whitney, produced a report for the city that pegged the cost of the pathways, adjusted to 2012 dollars, at $50 million. The expense would be a rounding error in the MTA's upcoming five-year capital program. The MTA has incorporated a feasibility study for the pathways into a larger project to reconstruct bridge ramps and approaches. The study is due in 2015, and at Saturday's rally, speakers urged the agency and its consultants, Parsons Brinckerhoff, to conduct the process transparently, so supporters of the path can weigh in before the results are set in stone. "Fifty years without a Verrazano pathway has been 50 years too long," said Harbor Ring Committee member Paco Abraham. "Fortunately, now is the right time for change. The bridge is currently undergoing a massive rehab and we know with certainty that our ask is feasible and the demand is unwavering.""
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Saturday, October 18, 2014
More Foreign Skullduggery
There is no question, none, that the U.S. would expel Russians attempting to do this. What the hell is wrong with our national priorities? And equally important, why is the US media so slavish in their reporting on this stuff?
"The State Department admits that much: Asked if the U.S. was concerned about what had happened to them, [State Department spokeswoman Jen] Psaki said: "They were there to do a training that we sponsored, so I think our preference would have been for them not to be detained, I think it's fair to say. The "tourists" or "journalists" broke Russian immigration laws and had been advised by the U.S. State Department to do just that. What did they expect the Russian immigration service to do? To also ignore Russian law because the U.S. State Department says so?"
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
Brooklyn Spirits Book Launch
Via the Brooklyn Paper, friend of the blog Chris Wertz and partner Peter Fornatale have written the book on cocktails with locally made spirits:
A pair of cocktail connoisseurs have penned a tribute to locally-made liquors — and the drinks you can make with them. “Brooklyn Spirits: Craft Distilling and Cocktails from the World’s Hippest Borough” highlights borough booze-makers such as Greenhook Ginsmiths and Industry City Distilling, alongside about 70 cocktail recipes. And you don’t need to be an expert mixologist to make them. Most of the drinks require minimal preparation, because when it comes to mixing liquors, there is such a thing as too much alcohol, one of the authors said.An excellent gift choice for your tippling friends or those out of town friends and relatives looking for something Brooklyn. Get a taste tonight:
The pair will launch their book at PowerHouse Arena in Dumbo on Oct. 17, chased up with a reading at the Central Library in Prospect Heights on Oct. 23.“Brooklyn Sprits: Craft Distilling and Cocktails from the World’s Hippest Borough” at the PowerHouse Arena [37 Main St. between Water and Front streets in Dumbo, (718) 666–3049, www.powerhousearena.com]. Oct. 17 at 7 pm. Free.
And at Central Library [10 Grand Army Plaza, near Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Heights, (718) 230-2100, brooklynspirits.brownpapertickets.com]. Oct. 23 at 7 pm. Free.
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
So Long, Cable!
"In fantastic news for those of you living off your parents' HBO GO accounts, HBO's Chairman and CEO Richard Plepler promised the assembled crowd of suits at Time Warner Investor Day that HBO would be offering its streaming service à la carte starting next year. Plepler noted that 10 million homes are broadband-only, having declined the opportunity to bundle despite frequently and loudly advertised financial incentives of doing so. "There are 80 million homes that do not have HBO," Plepler noted, after spending whole years of watching Game of Thrones be the most downloaded television show of all time every week."
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Shut The Directorate of Operations
"In fact, the most successful U.S. intervention of this nature that the report cites is our back of the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in the 1980s—and those people went on to become Al Qaeda. "Helping to create Osama Bin Laden" is the the high-water mark of CIA foreign actions."
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United States: WMD Proliferator
The American public is routinely lied to, often with the aid of establishment media, about what our military-surveillance-cloak and dagger complex is doing in our name, at great expense.
"Good old USA technology, conveniently exported to European firms that we helped to build factories in Iraq to produce chemical weapons to be used against Iran. That is what caused injury to US servicemen who were routinely denied care and quickly sent back into battle because they weren't missing limbs. Chivers talked to a number of those soldiers and their stories are so consistent they nearly blend together. Also consistent was the instant classification of the injuries, presumably because of the embarrassment to the Bush Administration they would cause should the press look into them too rigorously."
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Sunday, October 12, 2014
Crime of the Century
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Former Treasury Department officials also questioned the need for the flights. Treasury had already sent $1.7 billion in cash from Iraqi government accounts in the United States to Baghdad in the first weeks after the invasion, and then had developed a new Iraqi currency that was introduced that October. They say the new currency ended the need for further cash infusions from the United States. "We did not know that Bremer was flying in all that cash," said Ged Smith, who was the head of the Treasury Department team that worked on Iraq's financial reconstruction after the invasion. "I can't see a reason for it." Mr. Bowen said that Brick Tracker, his office's most sensitive investigation, began in 2010 when Wael el-Zein, a Lebanese- American on his staff, received a tip about stolen money hidden in Lebanon. An informant told him about the bunker, which in addition to the cash, was believed to also have held approximately $200 million in gold belonging to the Iraqi government.
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Friday, October 10, 2014
Amazing Pics of Decommissioned Russian Submarine
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| Decommissioned Russian Victor Class nuclear sub en rte to the scrap yard. via Business Insider. |
I love picture sets like this. Clearly this thing was parked, rotting away in shallow water for a long time. Reminds me of an old Star Blazers cartoon I saw on a UHF channel thirty years ago, back when this thing was still probably cruising the ocean with a cargo of nuclear missiles targeted at the US.
Participatory Budgeting Is Upon Us!
Building on the success of Participatory Budgeting over the last few years, Council Member Brad Lander's office is tweaking the process a little bit this season. For one, the assemblies are going to focus on certain issues. And two, the pot is getting juiced up to $1.5M from previous allocations of $1M.
Sounds good! The first assembly (this coming Tuesday) is going to focus on transportation issues, and following assemblies will address a host of other key areas. The details:
Sounds good! The first assembly (this coming Tuesday) is going to focus on transportation issues, and following assemblies will address a host of other key areas. The details:
Streets and Transit:
A great opportunity to get involved in the community. A lot of great ideas have been put forth and paid for over the last few years. RSVP HERE.Tuesday, October 14 at the NYC Transit Museum (Boerum Pl & Schermerhorn St)Kensington Neighborhood Assembly:Thursday, October 16 at PS230 (1 Albemarle Rd)Parks and Environment:Monday, October 20 at the Picnic House in Prospect Park (95 Prospect Park West)Arts, Community and Culture:Wednesday, October 22 at ReelWorks (540 President Street, #2F in Gowanus)Public Education:Monday, October 27 at PS 154 (1625 11th Ave in Windsor Terrace)All the events will be from 6:30-8:30 p.m. As in past years, attendees will have the opportunity to give their ideas about how to spend PBNYC dollars. But this year, we will also break into smaller, issue-related groups for in-depth discussions that go beyond participatory budgeting. We hope this format will provide a forum for people to discuss needs and concerns … even if they can’t be solved with capital dollars spent on a physical project.
CM Brad Lander, BP Eric Adams, AM Joan Millman and DL Jo Anne Simon Question Logic, Process of Gowanus Parole Center Siting
Councilman Brad Lander has a petition up for those concerned about the process followed and the general advisability of consolidating Brooklyn parole operations into a remote location on the Gowanus.
Downtown is the logical site, with excellent access to transit, courts and other government offices. It's a mystery as to why the state thought this would be a good idea. Borough President (and former police officer) Eric Adams has also weighed in to question the wisdom of the plan:The planning process for this facility has fallen far short of what any community deserves from their government. Over several months, not one single written word about the facility has been provided by DOCCS to the community or its elected officials. DOCCS has failed to articulate a coherent rationale for choosing to site a borough-wide facility in the heart of an industrial business zone close to a vibrant residential community. DOCCS has not shared the criteria it uses to site facilities, the solicitation, RFP, or process through which this site was chosen.This single facility would replace three facilities that were originally in Downtown Brooklyn location, which were convenient to transit, and located in a commercial district with substantial foot-traffic. This new location would concentrate 300 to 400 parolees visits per day in a single site, which is close to many schools, parks and residential areas and inconvenient to transit. If the goal is to provide community-based locations, then there should be several around Brooklyn, convenient to residents from many neighborhoods, in areas with services. Perhaps this location could be one such facility; however, the state cannot claim that siting one facility in this location to serve the entire borough is part of a community-based strategy.
Assemblywoman Joan Millman and her presumptive successor, District Leader JoAnne Simon have also questioned the logic of siting the office in such a remote location.The new headquarters for state parole operations should be downtown, not in Gowanus, according to Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams. The proposed location at 15 2nd Avenue is too difficult for parolees to reach.“When you’re on parole, cab fare can be the difference between violating and not violating,” he told The Brooklyn Paper. “We shouldn’t make it more challenging.”
Thursday, October 9, 2014
The Latest On LICH
From Dan Goldberg at Capital New York:
AndSUNY has finalized a deal to sell Long Island College Hospital to a Brooklyn developer, ending a two-year battle to shed the money-losing hospital.Fortis Property Group will purchase the campus for $240 million, and N.Y.U. Langone Medical Center will run the remaining health care on the site, along with Lutheran Medical Center.N.Y.U. has committed to building a $175 million, four-story medical facility that will eventually have a staff of 400, including about 70 physicians. The amount of square-footage devoted to medical care is double what was originally proposed in the Fortis bid, "in recognition of the need for greater services in the community," SUNY chair Carl McCall said in a statement. McCall said SUNY negotiated for increased health care on the site, in response to the needs of the surrounding communities.
Of course, this story has had more twists and turns, head fakes and surprises than just about any local issue I can remember. So this is where we stand, for now.The deal must still be approved by the state attorney general and state comptroller. Once that approval is complete, N.Y.U. can take over operations of the emergency department, which is all that remains of the Cobble Hill hospital.N.Y.U. can then ask the city fire department to resume ambulance service to LICH. N.Y.U. officials expect to see between 35 and 50 patients per day once the ambulances resume.
The Worst Person In The World
Bob Friedrich.
I usually reserve this topic for nationally recognized figures, but seriously, what a jackass.
I usually reserve this topic for nationally recognized figures, but seriously, what a jackass.
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
We're Evolving
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| xkcd comic via The Big Picture |
. . . and that's a great thing. But I don't think most young people appreciate just how bad things were, just how recently, in America. And by young people I don't even mean that young. Mid-forties on down.
I'm forty myself, and while I certainly remember a strong social stigma against interracial relationships in the environment I grew up in, I was still stunned to learn that they were illegal in half the country in the 1960s. A big part of that is the fact that our education system and media organs work hard to gloss that over and focus on the happy talk of American Exceptionalism.
My own views on race, gender, and LGBT-related issues have evolved fairly dramatically over the last 25 years . . . or more accurately, over the period from say 1992 to 2003. And not all at the same pace, necessarily. But I was an early newspaper reader, and a twelve-to-fifteen year old kid reading garbage from the likes of Cal Thomas and Tony Snow is going to form some ass-backwards opinions about things in the absence of other information. A lot of retrograde attitudes in this country especially on race are sustained by ignorance, often willful ignorance, of how bad things were and how bad things still are.
We have a duty to make sure that our schools are presenting our history to kids warts and all. Thankfully, kids today have things I didn't: Twitter, blogs, the internet in general, the Daily Show, The Colbert Report, John Oliver. But we also need to stand up against the Pam Mazanec's of the world who would fill our kids heads with sweet lies.
We need to evolve on a lot more things. But I am encouraged by of this trend.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Almost Halloween!
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| 1st Place between Henry and Clinton |
Monday, October 6, 2014
A Gateway Out Chris Christie's Hell
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| The Amtrak Gateway project that is currently not being rushed into place before disaster strikes the NJ-NY commuting populace. |
NYC and NJ could both be in for a world of hurt if we don't invest in some Hudson River rail crossing redundancy, immediately.
It absolutely blew my mind when Hudson rail crossing redundancy was not an immediate, hair-on-fire priority after 9/11. I mean, lots of good policy that should have been implemented after 9/11 was ignored in favor of tax cuts for the rich, invading Iraq, and lavishing funds on Bush and Cheney cronies. And while that was tragic, and will hurt us all for decades to come, it was not entirely unexpected. But new tunnels under the Hudson? That for sure I thought would be a priority. Wrong! And then, even the slow progress of the Access to the Region's Core project (which admittedly had problems beyond its awful title*) was utterly derailed by NJ Governor Chris Christie, who siphoned off the funds for slosh around the state on highway projects.New York’s dependence on its rail system is why Amtrak’s announcement last week that damage from 2012’s Hurricane Sandy would require the eventual renovation of the North River (Hudson River) tunnels, which connect New Jersey and New York, is such devastating news. The $700 million expected cost of the renovation, which includes improvements to tunnels under the East River, isn’t the problem, for once, as the price is expected to be covered by insurance. Rather, the problem is that Amtrak noted that the renovation of the North River tunnels would require shutting down one track at a time (there are two), reducing peak capacity from 24 trains an hour to just 6 (there are four tracks under the East River so there is far less of a concern there).**It’s unclear how this problem will be handled. Passengers could switch to the already-crowded PATH subway into New York from Newark or Hoboken. Or one of the automobile tunnels could be converted to bus service, which isn’t likely to make many drivers happy. Amtrak through-service from Washington to Boston will be dealt a severe blow. Either way, there are no happy outcomes to a tunnel renovation program other than a safer infrastructure.Amtrak head Joseph Boardman noted that, because of the storm damage, the 104-year-old tunnels likely only have 20 years left of life in them. The public rail company’s solution is to immediately begin construction of the Gateway Program, whose primary component is a new double-track rail tunnel under the Hudson. Once those new tunnels are ready for use, rehabilitation of the North River tunnels could commence by 2025 or so.Amtrak’s report could be seen as little more than a thinly-veiled threat; give us money to build a new tunnel, the argument goes, or you’ll suffer from complete evisceration of your rail services. Indeed, the press release notes that “the report underscores the urgency to advance the Gateway Program,” including the new Hudson tunnels. Who knows whether to believe Mr. Boardman’s proclamation about the tunnel’s life expectancy.Yet it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that, even had the storm not happened, a new Hudson River rail tunnel would have been necessary. Traffic along the rail corridor is expanding. New York City is expected to continue to grow in the coming decades. And resiliency is always a good idea (had Sandy been bad enough to destroy the tunnels, what would have happened?).
And now? We are on the verge of a potential bi-state transportation nightmare. And if one thing goes wrong, a lot of people are going to be very miserable for a long time.
* Yonah's post neatly lays out the problems with the ARC project, and I am forced to footnote my criticism of Christie with odd fact that if Gateway gets built before we have a catastrophe, we will be better off. Christie was only focused on redeploying the money from transit to highways. However, Gateway is unquestionably a superior project to ARC, and it was only Christie's cynical, selfish act that made Gateway a practical possibility. But if catastrophe strikes first, Christie's name will be mud forever.
Saturday, October 4, 2014
American Exceptionalism!
"Apparently, this woman doesn't know that one of the most exceptional historical facts about America was that we were last Western nation to outlaw slavery by a long shot. And I'd guess she missed class the day they discussed that little dust-up from 1860 to 1865. (Of course, it's always possible that like so many wingnuts she has thinks the civil war wasn't about slavery at all. It's just a coincidence that the country "voluntarily ended it" after over half a million people died over the most important moral cause humankind has ever known: states' rights.
This is why you need teacher's unions and tenure. When people like this take over school boards (and this isn't the first time) they will happily fire anyone who teaches evolution and refuses to teach the kids that the US "voluntarily ended slavery.""
This is why you need teacher's unions and tenure. When people like this take over school boards (and this isn't the first time) they will happily fire anyone who teaches evolution and refuses to teach the kids that the US "voluntarily ended slavery.""
Emphasis added. If it was their own ignorance, I could live with it. But the belligerent willfulness of the ignorance, and the insistence that our youth be indoctrinated with feel-good truthiness is truly dangerous.
89 Boerum Place Back In Action
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| Workers were on site doing foundation work. |
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| I am a little surprised there is no residential, but perhaps that is a function of the jail across the street. |
Friday, October 3, 2014
Don't Be Evil
"Last week, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said in an interview with NPR's Diane Rehm that the company was dropping its membership with ALEC, a coalition of corporations and state legislators that works to create and share model legislation in statehouses around the country. Responding to a question from a listener, Schmidt attacked ALEC for helping to sponsor legislation that opposes environmental regulations and "just literally lying" about climate change."
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Thursday, October 2, 2014
Krugman On Our Broken Economic Discourse
What we should expect though, is more reporting like this. And for "respectable" media outlets to stop giving a platform to remorseless shills like, e.g. Bill Kristol, Dan Senor and Amity Shlaes.
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When the going gets tough, the people losing the argument start whining about civility. I often find myself attacked as someone who believes that anyone with a different opinion is a fool or a knave; as I've tried to explain, however, that's mainly selection bias. I don't spend much time on areas where reasonable people can disagree, because there are so many important issues where one side really is completely unreasonable. Relatedly, obviously someone can disagree with my side and still be a good person. On the other hand, there are a lot of bad people engaged in economic debate — and I don't mean that they're wrong, I mean that they argue in bad faith. Which brings us to today's installment of oh-yes-they're-that-bad, courtesy of Bloomberg. You may remember the infamous open letter to Ben Bernanke warning that his efforts to boost the economy "risk currency debasement and inflation"; just in case you wondered about the political nature of the letter, among the signatories was that noted monetary expert William Kristol.
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Cuomo Out To Lunch On Vital Rail Infrastructure
But Amtrak's Gateway proposal is vital to cross-Hudson transit. If one of those tunnels goes, and we're getting to the point where it's not inconceivable, NY is in for a serious awakening.
Cuomo has similarly ignored the sorry state of the BQE cantilever, canceling urgently needed planning for the inevitable rebuilding to focus on the Tappanzee. And don't get me started about LICH.
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