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YIMBYism And The "Forgotten" Places
Could a general spirit of opportunity-seeking bring back economic growth?
The writer A.M. Hickman, a traditionalist Catholic living in post-industrial upstate New York, is interesting. Some of his opinions are a bit much for me, but his wr...
We All Hop For IHOP
This IHOP along Route 22 in North Plainfield, New Jersey has been there ever since I was a kid. We often used to go shopping along this corridor, one of central Jersey’s primary commercial strips. I’ve mentioned Route 22 many times, and I f...
For Your Pleasure Only
I can’t find it now, but I was reading something in Reddit about old video games or electronics (two of my hobbies/interests), and one of the comments was something like, “Remember, all of this stuff will be garbage when you die, or a few d...
New and Old #272
Two steps forward, one step back for housing in Virginia, Greater Greater Washington, Emily Hamilton, May 27, 2026
This is a good critique of Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger’s watering down of some important state-level housing bills:...
Crisis And Opportunity
(Some of) the ideas underlying discussion of the housing crisis
I saw this post on Twitter the other day, and I thought it was an illuminating frame for thinking about the housing crisis:
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