jason knight
@JasonKnightPhD
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Urban #Geographer Politicized by Zack, Vernon and Corey, Henry, Ice Cube, and Chuck D
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Starting salary for a Buffalo school teacher WITH a masters degree: $44k
Starting salary for a Buffalo cop, only req'd to have a GED or diploma: $46k
Second yr. salary NYS Trooper with any 60 college credits: $84k
Second year salary of
@SUNYGeneseo
PhD faculty: $62k
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@AnthonyAdragna
Imagine lobbying for global destruction and being able to sleep at night. Bed must be stuffed with comfortable $100 bills. What a sleaze.
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Dear
@UBuffalo
,
@ubalumni
and
@UB_President
You can save the multiple annual letters sent to the house asking for donations from the two UB grads living here. And we'll work with our trans child to find a new school for them next fall.
Supporting hate speech is deplorable.
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@sarahkendzior
Full album hit me esp Open Letter to a Landlord
I call this place my home
You call this place a slum
You wanna run all the people out
This is what you're all about
Treat poor people just like trash
Turn around and make big cash
PhD in urban geo, study/practice equitable housing
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@RobGalbraithLS
JFC. If your governor turns to a firm which benefited from the housing market collapse by extracting profit from foreclosed homes by buying them up at fire sale prices and renting them our at luxury prices, you're proper screwed. Blackstone is a our housing market virus.
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Starting Salary for City of Buffalo school teacher WITH a masters degree in 2018-2019 was $42,977.
Starting salary for a Buffalo police officer, where the education requirement is a high school diploma or GED, according to 2019 exam announcement is $46,628.
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Never forget, especially @ next governor election, that in 2022
@GovKathyHochul
is giving
@buffalobills
and Florida-resident (See: not paying income tax in state they're fleecing) Pegula$ 100s of millions in the same budget she's cutting $800M in family and child services.
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When
@TheBuffaloNews
says "experience" matters, it's making a statement that it will never, ever support anyone but a career politician. That's the message, that FBI raids, pay-to-play, and fiscal ineptitude are irrelevant to having squatted in an office for 16 years.
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Time to, unfortunately, dust off a paper with
@RustBeltGeo
... Walkable and Resurgent for Whom: The Uneven Geographies of Walkability in Buffalo, NY. If you have to walk, chances are lower on the East Side that things you need exist in your neighborhood. DM for copies.
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Easy way to test this, let them strike and find out.
NEW: Rail execs defend themselves by claiming their skyrocketing profits do not reflect "any contributions by labor"
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@matthewccook5
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The
@UBuffalo
kid missed a 4.0 because of an A- in a law class despite 137/140=97.8%. Missed 3 classes so dropped half letter grade.
If you're a prof and a student can get an A missing your lectures, docking them a half letter is more about you're feelings than their abilities.
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@MediColorado
@AdamBojak
Just picked up and started The War on Neighborhoods from
@BurningBooks
... excellent so far and recommend it.
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Pouring taxpayer $$ into East Side & rail corridor w/o policies to avoid displacement is more "gentrification as public policy"
Bflo lacks:
Inclusionary zoning
Land trusts (entire city)
Housing trust fund
Rent control
Social housing
$1 lot sales to nonprofits
Visionary leaders
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@Barni_Noor
@muhammadshehad2
Apparently when Israel does it and the US funds it and supplies it, it can't be a war crime. Everyone knows this.
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CLASSIC Brown. Goes up there knowing he can bait the sycophantic media with a hot take designed to misdirect and they'll jump all over it, ignoring the real story, which is Brown's abject failure to be even remotely competent in this crucial moment.
Looters are "the lowest of the low" says
@MayorByronBrown
. He says they're looting to take advantage of a natural disaster, taking what they want, and it's not food or medicine.
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And there it is...the end game is always to turn over failed public goods, maliciously starved intentionally by govt, to the for-profit private sector.
If you can't trust the govt to safely operate your water system, who thinks you can trust the profit-motivated private sector?
LATEST: Gov. Tate Reeves says "privatization is on the table" for the Jackson water system as the State considers long-term solutions beyond the immediate crisis.
He says water pressured is restored, but "there may be more bad days in the future."
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All my love and respect to
@Indiawaltonbflo
and her team on an amazing run that brought lots of people together. Take a breath. Recharge. Reconnect. React.
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Affordable housing development shouldn't be so hard to pull off in
#Buffalo
, the city owns 7,200 lots and under state law could sell for less than fair market value but they choose not to. $1 lots are subsidies developers need.
Renter insecurity is a policy choice.
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@GoodPoliticGuy
All that personal health data people coughed up via their apple watch was determined by Apple to be profitable (duh). Give them data, they'll monetize it.
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@JColey716
Tyler was in my Intro to Planning course. I was called by admin that Saturday and told before a public announcement. Won't forget that call, ever. Stunned, shocked, saddened. As the father of a 19-year-old, I can't image what his parents are going through.
RIP Young King.
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Resurgence for a few, guerrilla maintenance of public infrastructure due to government disinvestment for others.
Might have stripped some crosswalks and stop lines this morning with some very nice neighbors because the city hasn’t and won’t. Be safe out there, Buffalo.
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Literally, if you asked me to name the worst candidate to possibly be hired to lead an institution out of serious crises, I would have said Byron Brown.
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@vecede
@EpidemiologistU
@UBuffalo
@ubalumni
@UB_President
And if this position is the same after the "eradicate transgender people" comment by this goblin, then the University is dead to me. No more UB hoops season tickets, no more donations, no more UB anything.
Providing a forum for hate is not what I want to be associated with.
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I like the part where we bought Musk a $750M plant to use to increase his profits and wealth but he can't be taxed the same rate as others. So not property taxes from the building, waaay under delivered on jobs, and he's going to fight being taxed because it's not fair. Got it.
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If you thought a mayor who never holds regular open press conferences to take unscripted questions from the media was going to debate
@Indiawaltonbflo
, I've got a ribbon you can cut. I've raised his invisibility here for years. Mainstream local media has failed at its main job.
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@beaufloathe
I wish all right-wing restaurant owners would announce their stance on masks, PPP, unemployment, and wages. This way, I could create a list places I won't go, thereby making choices a lot easier.
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Excellent work.
Again, my fellow WNYers,
@TheBuffaloNews
IS NOT A NEWSPAPER, it's the PR arm of electeds and local elites. Plain and simple. If this doesn't convince you, nothing will.
So that's why
@TheBuffaloNews
is so gun ho about taxpayers building the
@BuffaloBills
a new stadium.
#Buffalo
#Niagara
#WNY
#BillsMafia
#NewYork
#upstateNY
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OK, mapping exercise for everyone...data is absolute change from 2006-2021. Ready, set, guess....
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Pretty cool that between Tesla and new Bills Stadium they'll be close to $3B in value and pay ZERO property taxes.
Full accounting of the deeply flawed assumptions about the value of such investments (theft) of taxpayer money is something local media always conveniently ignores
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@tom_tanuki
@devpnn
The Imaginary and the Urban: A Late Neoliberal Discursive Critique of Urban Space as Field Hospital
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Myself and
@RustBeltGeo
challenging the "resurgence" narrative. DM 4 copy. Also 2 papers on failed 5-in-5 demo plan.
Demolition without ANY reuse strategy, neighborhood plans, or more than token public reinvestment has created the current conditions.
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There are a few good reporters at
@TheBuffaloNews
but overall, it's a corporate run profit center that benefit$ when it endorses its advertisers' preferred candidates.
When your "journalistic" decisions are made at the local social club, that's not journalism.
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The old rule in consulting...when you need to *buy* validity and credibility to redirect away from your failures, you must make a flashy hire of an expert who is at least 50 miles away.
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@MrChuckD
Wearing anything that obscures your face from the millions of facial recognition cameras everywhere in America that track your every move.
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NYS has a prohibition against the "gift of public funds." So your local mayor can't direct a city plow driver to plow his friend's driveway. But a literal $1B gift of public funds for "economic development" is perfectly legal.
NYS. In. A. Nutshell.
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NIMBYism...Elmwood Village style: "I wanted to live in a dense, urban, walkable, mixed use neighborhood...but oh the urbanity of it all"
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Congrats Mayor
@Indiawaltonbflo
. Rocked it.
And so everyone remembers, I had Mayor Walton come to my class to tell planning students what's up before she was cool!!!!
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Just passed a woman walking in the road on Sheridan because
@keybank
made sure it's parking lot was plowed but the sidewalks on Sheridan and Colvin aren't. We understaff CODE ENFORCEMENT in every community in WNY. It's most visible apparent in the winter.
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One thing
@Indiawaltonbflo
's campaign did was re-affirm my steadfast belief that running a campaign with a mission, a platform, and ideas that address the actual needs of a community is how you energize voters and win elections.
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@elizmegs
@mamacrat
@ub_alert
Our household donations to
@UBuffalo
just ended and my kid might have to transfer next fall.
@UB_President
this the "free speech" you think your trans students should be subjected to? Your hosting someone who wants to ERADICATE people.
Who's doing the intro, Ghost of Hitler?
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Reminder that PILOTs and all forms of subsidy that eliminate property taxes for new projects always result in residential users taking the brunt of local property tax increases. As does a $1B publicly-owned Tesla factory.
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My favorite Twitter hobby in quarantine is reading the smart-than-you responses to
@markpoloncarz
updates by people so proudly preaching liberty, freedom, and patriotism they hide behind an anonymous Twitter handle.
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@mykola
That urban planners are just wealth creators for the developers class and critical cogs in the gentrification machine.
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Brown is constantly palms up because the "resurgence" was built on redevelopment that was taxpayer subsidized on the front end and doesn't pay it's full assessed value of taxes on the back end. Taxpayers ALWAYS lose. This is fiscal malfeasance.
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Construction value is not the measure of the success of a city or its mayor. Residents can't eat and drink new construction. They aren't educated by it. It doesn't lift them out of poverty. It doesn't put fluoride in the water or take lead out of it. And it doesn't pay the rent.
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@JimmyVielkind
@RobGalbraithLS
@amazon
I've told my 16 yr. old there is no future for you in NYS. Runaway corporate handouts result in massive disinvestment in schools, SUNY, infrastructure, etc. piled on top of an antiquated governance structure with too many govts all taxing the living shit out of property owners.
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Recently hired Buff State president has had the job offer rescinded over clearly unethical actions. A national firm was hired and a secret search was undertaken and they managed to hire someone who should have been vetted better. Kudos to
@SUNY
and
@SUNYChancellor
for right call
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@CalgaryRef
@NadxiNieto
@MikeDrucker
Yeah, and for all of you late for work because of the MTA, the best way to not be late for work is to not get a job in the first place.
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When your investment is DISinvestment through demolition and deferred maintenance on public infrastructure, the private market isn’t interested.
This is on Brown, period. He has refused an open, transparent lot reuse strategy and stakeholder-driven neighborhood level plans.
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What shade of gray or beige do you want your $500k builder's grade box on a street with no sidewalks in?
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@prof_nch
Stick to the private sector's 60+ hour work week where that's rewarded with annual salary increases and promotion not in 7 years once you get tenure. Oh, and never write a book for an academic publisher.
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@TheBuffaloNews
@JColey716
You're part of the prob. You pushed a mutually-beneficial "resurgence" ruse that allowed him to sell a myth and you to sell papers. Do you ask the tough questions of him? No. So why wouldn't he think he/CC could seat a committee of grifters to propose their handlers get a raise?
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Excited to have
@Indiawaltonbflo
back on campus today as our featured guest speaker for our fall Geography and Planning speaker series. Non-political event to discuss her role as "citizen planner."
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Any word on whether smoke detectors were present in this horrible fire on Dartmouth? As the number of out-of-town and out-of-region landlords continues to explode in the city, more inspections and more protections for tenants are needed.
Property owned by a commodifier from NYC
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@markpoloncarz
Another master class in leadership from
@markpoloncarz
. Updates, guidance, support, empathy. When things get tough, leaders lead.
This isn't about politics and if you make it about politics, you're the divisive problem we face as a people.
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@Charlie_Reports
@bobmccarthybn
@MayorByronBrown
Clear admission of his failure to develop and implement adequate disaster planning and response, and he was in office for the Oct. 2006 storm, and the city has a history of deadly blizzards and snow events.
#BrownsKatrina
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@ourcityaction
@MayorByronBrown
This is the same dude who told me, to my face after asking for a meeting, that he had two goals: win enough elections to get his full pension and build a legacy project (the dream of every pol).
Same guy who referred to renters as scumbags when he slammed a fair housing law.
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The consensus on campus is 99% think Byron Brown is the last candidate who should be given any consideration as the next president. It's a laughable idea. Yet
@TheBuffaloNews
keeps trying to keep the idea alive. Might happen. But what examples can one point to that suggest...
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"Unimpressed" with FB Land Trust,
@MayorByronBrown
? You should read a few papers that describe how "unimpressed" I am with your 5-in-5 Demo Plan (hint, failed every measure). Imagine creating vacant lots via demolition and having no plan to manage or reuse them. Unimpressive.
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@InternetHippo
@goodbflotweets
Entrenched socialized debt for privatized profit. What an crushing statement it is to give away millions to something that doesn't actually need it and then fail to provide a decent wage for those who will pay for the corporate welfare. Astounding.
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"Paladino said the effort stems from concern within the business community that Walton's socialist philosophies will deter further investment in the city's recent revitalization."
The revitalization myth is the reason he lost.
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This is what urban-engagement is in the Urban and Regional Planning Program at Buff State. Every spring seniors work on a real project for a local org or govt, this time with
@HabitatBuffalo
and
@GGWNY
and with support from alum and Council Member
@mitch4fillmore
@BuffStatePrez
Students in Jason Knight’s senior urban planning practicum last spring took on a big urban-engaged community project. Using GIS and real property data, they created an inventory of vacant land in Buffalo and assessed potential reuse options.
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Of course he does. He's never shown an ounce of actual care for residents. All performance. He can't balance a budget cuz his economic development schemes have failed miserably, as trickle down does.
Anyone expect any different from Mayor Palms Up?
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On the City's "snow emergency and resources" pages, I don't see any links to a disaster management plan or guidance for major snow events. Does anyone know if a they have a plan of any kind, other than a snow removal plan? I mean a disaster preparedness and response plan?
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Why unaffordability continues to explode: 91 Norwalk sold last fall @ $220k. Listed @ $450 after LLC bought and rehabbed. Takes affordable options from HHs who didn't need to turn a classic into a DIY show puking on itself. Bad timing for a flip tho haha.
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All pro-human grads need to put their wallets away and let
@ubalumni
@UBuffalo
@UB_President
know that while we all support free speach, we don't support Nazi/fascist hate speech calling for the eradication of our fellow friends, family, and community members.
@JasonKnightPhD
@UBuffalo
@ubalumni
@UB_President
As a trans person that graduated from UB recently, they have effectively made sure they will never see a donation from.
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@GovKathyHochul
@NYCMayor
That'll cover $5,000 per unit and I would bet the costs per unit for new construction in NYC are close to 100 times that.
This is literally, nothing.
How much did you give the Dolans and Pegulas again?
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Millionth case supporting rental registries AND more investment in code enforcement. Over a week later in City of Tonawanda, on Delaware a major road, two doors away from a People Inc. home, this sidewalk (near pole) not shoveled, AND plow driver pushed a 3 ft mound over the walk
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@hiro_nakamoto10
@RobGalbraithLS
Yep. Since everyone has time for extra reading, I'd recommend this.
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Some idiot on a Bills board, said "it's the vaccines"...that's how utterly fucked up this country has become. Not "let's pray for this kid" but "I'm an anti-vaxxer and want to be so right that I'm pointing to this as the proof I am right."
Absolute lunacy.
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If you find this shocking, you're not paying attention to how the wealthy buy favor with their money. All of his Bflo properties now eligible for extra special treatments with increased patrols and inspections.
Developer Jemal paid $50,000 toward defense of Buffalo police officers in Gugino case
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@jacobinmag
How dare another country a) hold elections and b) nationalize natural resources when everyone knows it's the US' oil under that sand.
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@NatMansell
Got into EPL 6 yrs ago, needed a club & didn't want to be a typical American and pick a top 6. I went with
@WBA
cuz of club history and commonalities between midlands and the US rust belt. Went to UK & out of the way to see the Hawthorns. This is awesome. Get back up you Baggies!
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"Mining Bitcoin each year produces as much pollution as Greece created in 2019, the study found. A single Bitcoin transaction results in the same carbon footprint as a traveler flying from New York to Amsterdam."
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Nine politicians in robes walking back convictions doesn't mean that pay-to-play and bid rigging didn't happen in this case and isn't rampant in NYS. It just means its legal.
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Imagine writing this piece as if renters didn't exist and everyone was a homeowner. This is what happens when your local paper lets the business guys write about housing.
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Let's explore how Byron Brown operates in crisis, using demolitions as a case study. We can see that self-serving political expedience and the politician's syllogism (we must do something, this is something, we did something) often drive policy he is forced, not wants, to make 1/
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@DanielTelvock
JFC. Classic Buffalo politics summarized in one bad idea. If just changing the name guaranteed respect and inclusivity, what took so long to come up with this easy solution to decades systemic problems? Same line of thinking as "we can build stuff and solve all our probs."
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Green is fully reported, tan not reported, and Poloncarz is up 26k votes with 60% of the total Election Day and 100% of early voting counted. Should be the end of Casillo's pipe dream.
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Still waiting for that peer-reviewed publication by Byron Brown where he daylights his new measure of segregation that shows it's not an issue in Buffalo anymore and makes worthless the index of dissimilarity.
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Last guest lecturers in my Planning for Sustainable Communities course in the urban planning program at
@buffalostate
. Excellent conversation on community organizing democracy, tenants rights, and welcoming with
@harpersebishop
,
@elizmegs
and
@AdamBojak
!
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@AcademicsSay
You forgot the office and staff to "administer" the grant and take a large chunk of the money, because you know, PIs can't handle a budget and the existing HR dept can't issue checks to three grad students. That's the biggest racket out there.
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Fruit Belt example of what happens local govt is more concerned with making money at tax foreclosure auctions than using public-owned land for public benefit (see: housing, affordable). Sold for $3400 in 2004, owners made $0 investment. Profit over people
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A letter of support for the trans community from
@UB_President
are just words from a script. They're not powerful or actionable. Again, it's just another higher ed president as starring actor in a DEIJ performance while doing the absolute bare minimum to affect real changes.
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That will doesn't exist and never will. Hochul (like Cuomo et al) is a corporate welfare manager for the Dolan and Pegula class. The entire system, continually run by Dems to be clear, is more interested in neoliberal public-private bullshit than actual investment in public goods
NYS certainly has the capacity to make SUNY and CUNY the most affordable public higher ed systems in the US. All it takes is
@GovKathyHochul
@AndreaSCousins
@CarlHeastie
mustering the political will to fund their operations like the public goods they are.
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So this new Buffalo Next propaganda effort...is this a paid advertisement, or just appears so on its face, like all of Epstein's work promoting rising housing prices as a great thing while it increases housing insecurity, segregation, and concentrates poverty? 1/4
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Not sure if it's irony or apropos but POTUS speaking today in the same location today that 3 years ago I facilitated numerous 2-hour stakeholder mtgs to identify barriers to housing choice in Erie County for HUD Analysis of Impediments to Fair Housing Choice. 1/4
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A reporter asked why ~70 yrs. of economic failure, segregation, poverty, population decline, etc. in Bflo/WNY has been irreversible. My response: 100% due to ineffective, visionless, self-serving, fragmented governance, both sides of the aisle. Hill I'll die on.
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If only we treated politics, policy, and elected officials with the same level of analysis, maybe we'd have more educated voters and better outcomes.
When will the
@theBuffalonews
do the same for Byron and his sycophants, bar exam flunkies, and unqualified hacks? Oh wait.
Finally reading this piece about Coach McD at lunch, while some things might be taken with a grain of salt, leadership is about taking responsibility for your organization’s failures, seems like McD has not. Quality leaders accept and own the problems.
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GreenCode making Elmwood from Hertel to Kenmore look like NF Blvd.
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