2024BFRNT: The Guadalupe Green Lane

First installment in the 2024 Bike Facility Roast N Toast series. (Yes, I achieved the repeat of my dumbest/awesomest mission on the 27th when I…

Waterloo Park is much nicer now, thanks to DEVELOPMENT

People who bemoan the Waterloo Park thing are just fucking crazy. This is what it looked like before: Not an exaggeration! It was always a…

AURA sucks, part MCMLXIII

(yet another Woulda Been A Thread) AURA board member who somehow missed the twenty times AURA decided to loudly and stupidly weigh in on the…

Local journalists don’t think apartments count as homes

Another “this would have been a thread of tweets and briefly was until I realized all the cutting and pasting I’d have to do”. People…

Will you save money or time by taking the bus?

This is a brief resumption of blogging for reasons due to the bonehead billionaire1 In fall 2021, I switched employers from a suburban cubicle hellscape…

AURA lies about homelessness

From a post on the page of the only sitting city council member to which I donated (ask me why!), I replied: The multiple people…

ATCYOA: 1997 at the FTA

It’s 1997. You run Capital Metro. You raised your local sales tax from 0.75 cents to 1 full cent (the statutory maximum) a couple of…

Do renters pay property taxes?

(I’m writing this to save off for later use; I’m currently entangled in a contentious thread on NextDoor which is likely to circle back to…