Trump's policies are directly at odds with the priorities in small-town America.
Dumb Growth
From Sightline: "Research links high-quality early education with lifelong benefits: higher adult salary and education level, greater likelihood of owning a home, having a 401(k) and saving for retirement, as well as lower likelihood of teenage pregnancy, incarceration, tobacco use, and depression. Unfortunately in Seattle, the benefits of a top-notch elementary education are disproportionately available to children from white, English-speaking families with high incomes. ... More flexible zoning code could be one important tool in reversing segregation among Seattle’s public schools."
Underlining Like Mad #175: Why Raising Development Fees in Vulnerable Communities Might Hurt Vulnerable Communities.
The Planning Commission is concerned that increasing [payment] requirements in areas with a high risk of displacement may have negative consequences on Seattle’s historically marginalized communities by stagnating growth, exacerbating housing shortages, and further limiting access to jobs, [and] housing,
Underlining Like Mad #174: Saffron Hill Blues
In which Charles Dickens replaces William Gibson as the City Poet Laureate; or more to the point: when it becomes clear that Dickens' Victorian underworld, not Raymond Chandler's noir LA, is the cyberpunk nazz.
Underling Like Mad #173: Pedestrian Threat
Pedestrian Kick Back...
Sudden Density
My London Library...
Underlining Like Mad #172: Rain City
It was infinite...
