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Anecdotal but, my family used to work in forestry and logging in northern CA back in the 50’s-70’s, Sierra club was formed and pressed state to halt all forestry operations in Northern CA. Not only did this kill all logging industry in CA, this decimated the ability of the state to manage the fores...

The Great Climate Migration Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-will-force-a-new-american-migration?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook#996123 Good read and interesting perspective. Climate change is seriously causing major issues b...

Ask tourists how they feel. I'll give you a hint: NOBODY wants to move to a boring, chlorine clean city with no character. Architecture exists to attract. The failure to use attractive architecture has GENERATIONAL effects. And yet Levittown attracted tons of people... Literally never heard of it. ...

FangKC wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:42 pm

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/suprem ... 87-n670701

Let the shit-show begin.

*insert Batman quote about the world burning, or some shit*

Ask tourists how they feel. I'll give you a hint: NOBODY wants to move to a boring, chlorine clean city with no character. Architecture exists to attract. The failure to use attractive architecture has GENERATIONAL effects. And yet Levittown attracted tons of people with a chlorine clean community....

Not half of murders, half of *known* murders. Crime numbers depend on people reporting. It's the core claim, that systematic racism is skewing the numbers because of purposeful lack of enforcement of crimes by whites. There's multiple religious groups with claims the church protects sex offenders a...

To be honest, I’m quite fond of the Indian creek trail, although some municipalities don’t maintain their sections as well as others, It’s an awesome trail for any type of distance. I've noticed this on maps. Is it good for cycling? Are there a lot of street crossings? Biking is the sport I'll be d...

If you haven't taken anything Mother Jones has published seriously, then I don't really care what you think, TBH. I try to stay away from anything that's openly far sided in their bias. Not saying biased media is incapable of putting out the occasional good story, but I think it's important to know...

The new construction segments will actually be fast -- I think 110mph -- because they're being mostly built in the freeway right-of-way. The initial segment is existing track with too many grade crossings, other train traffic, and stations close together. I rarely saw us going top speed. How was th...

I understand that currently, Brightline is only classified as higher-speed rail, but they are absolutely showing the legitimate demand for privately built passenger rail in the U.S.; they’re well on their way to completing their extension to Orlando, with further expansion plans to Tampa as well. Th...

GRID wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 14, 2020 1:39 pm

So this is going to be a boring girder bridge like the heart of america? That is extremely disappointing.

Can’t do too much vertically due to new proximity to approach to MKC, I imagine under-lighting could do a lot to make it stand out at night at least

Kansas City is getting a lot of bad press in the national media right now from the boos during the moment of unity during the Texan's game. From what I understand from talking to people who were there, the boos were more directed at the Texan's decision to sit out the anthem. In any event, TYT (who...

Wish these suburban dollars flew downtown. The upside is the developments in the Northland are mostly all within 15 miles of downtown. Versus the Johnson County developments which are an hour from downtown and cater mostly to people who work in Johnson County thus promoting even less jobs and busin...

I'm surprised some big bank (like Chase) hasn't swooped in and bought the former Federal Reserve Bank building to stake their flag in the market. Given the right offer, and the endless delays in renovating the building, they could probably have gotten the developer to sell, or convert their plan to...

You pretty much can't sit outside on that North patio. I was surprised how loud it was. They really should just give up on it. The 7th floor patio is much quieter and allows for better physical distancing. It's open less often, however. Would that make them at all likely to kick in funding to a cap...

Wasn’t Amtrack (excuse the pun) on track to turn a profit this year? With the restrictions of air travel, and the large amount of people able to work remotely, I could still see that being possible, what is the likelyhood? I do understand most of their money is made on the NEC, so with less commutin...

Didn’t really recognize the scale of these until I saw those pics, these are massive murals!

This shows July breakdown for MO vs. KS sides of KC metro (2nd section)... https://www.bls.gov/regions/mountain-plains/data/employmentandunemploymentandwages_kansascity_table.htm MO side of metro took a bigger hit with Leisure/Hospitality jobs given more hotels/restaurants/venues/touristy things bu...

New time lapse up for August, can’t wait to see full build time lapse start to finish, that will be extremely satisfying to watch. As well, biz journal had an article about the return of international flights. Nothing major, just Mexico and Canadian routes, really hope the new terminal gives us a c...

New time lapse up for August, can’t wait to see full build time lapse start to finish, that will be extremely satisfying to watch. As well, biz journal had an article about the return of international flights. Nothing major, just Mexico and Canadian routes, really hope the new terminal gives us a ch...