My hometown ran an affordable housing survey, and the results are in: People strongly agree that we need more affordable housing, and are entirely unwilling to pay for it.

Not a fan of this JOLTS:MFG number

Stunning

My beef with the entire legal profession and adversarial court system.

The only way you'd get funding for this in the US is if you used humanoid LLM slop to make it 10x flashier and 100x worse

Thinking about hiring a sales pro for my machine shop. Any other shop owners done this? Worth it? Would love to hear what worked (or didn’t).

It's been a long time since Pamela Labadie 's Money & Banking class but I was told this shouldn't happen.

Poignant today in JC.

They could quadruple section 8 at any time. nytimes.com/live/2025/08/1…

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This is a good lesson in why you should discuss strategies for lowering housing costs with economists rather than virtual reality headset company founders

do things that work

"The reason dates back to studies on rural roads from the 1930s and 1940s that still play an outsized role in the way speed limits are set across the U.S. — even in urban areas." apnews.com/article/speed-…

Jersey City when

From anon: these wouldn’t last 5mins in JC

Murphy admin has been talking about doing this for YEARS. Why now on the way out?

One of my least favorite things in the world is instrumental language - when words have no meaning beyond what they get you. Idle threats. Empty promises. Nothing pisses me off faster.

.Mikie Sherrill says the $10.7B Turnpike widening project should be "more innovative," but completing Phase I is a must. " … You look across the country ... you see these dangerous bridge failures ... If we kill this, that's how that happens." MORE: hudsoncountyview.com/sherrill-10-7b…

Another bad answer from a suburban pol, whose constituents hate traffic. If the highway is falling apart, FIX IT FIRST. If it's dangerous, widening will add traffic, not make it safer. The innovative thing to do is to transform aging highways NOT double down on past mistakes.

Swiss machines are cool and fun an profitable but it sucks to lose a day of work because you sneezed.