Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸
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Carmel, Indiana
Joined January 2009
Republicans' Talent Deficit Risks Governing Failure - With top talent drifting away, Republicans face a growing human capital crisis that could derail their governing ambitions.
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With top talent drifting away, Republicans face a growing human capital crisis that could derail their governing ambitions
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A number of houses have just gone on the market in my general neighborhood, weirdly right after the start of school. I think the prices are ambitiously high on some of them - but I hope they get it!.
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Interesting that they don’t seem to know the difference between Bobcat and Caterpillar.
#BREAKING: Crews are now using Bobcats to empty out homeless camps in D.C.
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The difference in Plano vs. Winnetka is that Plano underwent a major demographic shift. It was 73% white as recently as 2000, now majority minority and the white population has actually fallen by 30,000 since then even as the total population grew significantly.
@Empty_America Reps lost the entire north Dallas suburbs. Having grown up there that’s astonishing. Plano was similar to this Chicago burb - wealthy, tilted hard right and disgusted by Trump. Was R+50 in 80s or more. In 2024, I think it was D+15.
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Financial Times: ‘Showtime’s not here yet’: Cincinnati consumers shrug off Donald Trump’s tariffs
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In one patch of the world’s biggest economy, spending habits fail to match shoppers’ anxiety
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RT @ProducerCities: Via LinkedIn, Stephen Whitaker with an updated chart of the credit panel migration data. The new normal for high-cost m….
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RT @WISHNews8: Carmel, Indiana, continues to integrate art into daily life with venues like the Payne and Mencias Palladium, and community….
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Carmel, Indiana, integrates art into daily life with venues like the Payne and Mencias Palladium, offering diverse performances.
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Jeff Giesea: The post-boomer reckoning no one is ready for
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Amazing. I’ve thought our summer here in Indiana was an old school hot summer but apparently it’s even hotter elsewhere.
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Financial Times: ‘Absolutely immense’: the companies on the hook for the $3tn AI building boom
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With the data centre race in full swing, private capital is joining Big Tech in seeking to capture the rewards
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WSJ: Inside Silicon Valley’s Growing Obsession With Having Smarter Babies - Tech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant dates or select high-IQ embryos. ‘They want to raise high-performing children.’
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Tech execs are paying tens of thousands to find brilliant dates or select high-IQ embryos. “They want to raise high-performing children.”
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Interesting to see Indy scoring high on this. We have a lot of low key African immigration that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention. I haven’t read any articles about immigrants from Niger but it might make a nice profile in the Star.
Answer: Nigerien 🇳🇪 (total: 3K). This is the country of Niger, not Nigeria. A pretty small diaspora, looks like Greensboro and Harrisburg have the biggest communities. Haven't been able to find much, all the search results usually talk about NigeriAns.
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This isn't a result of demographic change. The shift to Trumpism has alienated a lot of traditional Republican elites.
Winnetka, Illinois (Chicago suburb of 13K - one of the wealthiest places in the US + featured in Home Alone):. 2012: R+15.2016: D+29.2020: D+36.2024: D+35
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Josh Barro: Democrats Must Do Better Than Ignore Elevated Crime in D.C.
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It's not good enough to say what Trump wants to do won't work.
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Governing: No Desire for Streetcars: A Transit Mode Falls Out of Favor
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A wave of downtown streetcars took to the streets in recent years to spur economic development. Many are struggling to prove their usefulness.
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RT @arpitrage: Surprises even me that the post-pandemic appreciation of the suburbs relative to the city center trend keeps continuing.
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I'd like to give a clarification and a correction. I include building codes, environmental rules, etc. under the general heading of "zoning.". Even so, people did post examples of YIMBYs caring about other things, such as construction costs. So I was wrong on that and stand.
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I'd like to give a clarification and a correction. I include building codes, environmental rules, etc. under the general heading of "zoning.". Even so, people did post examples of YIMBYs caring about other things, such as construction costs. So I was wrong on that and stand.
The most suspect thing about the YIMBY movement is its militant insistence that no factor other than zoning (and possibly rent control) has any material contribution at all to high housing prices. It has to be 100% about zoning, nothing else.
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I'm joined by @thisisfoster to talk about what the heck happened over the past 5-7 years and where we are now culturally with the "vibe shift" in society and the church.
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Westfield, Indiana is also burying some power lines in its downtown
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Overhead utilities on Ind. 32 in downtown Westfield and Union Street near Union Bible College will be buried as part of an agreement between the City of Westfield and Duke Energy. Last month, the...
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