Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
(via Elliman) Lest you think you’re the only one leaving tear stains on your rent checks, a new housing report says that NYC rents have increased faster than inflation, with median rents shooting up 3.4 percent over a three year period. The Times reported on the Census Bureau’s Housing and Vacancy survey today, which covered…
Feb. 23, By Michael Florio A proposed plan that would charge commuters a toll for using the Queensboro bridge—and three other New York City bridges–was put forward last week by an advocacy group that includes the former NYC traffic commissioner. MoveNY, a group comprised of traffic experts, research planners and eco-friendly non-profit firms, claims the…
Congressional Republicans are once again holding the government hostage against a budget authorization bill, this time threatening to put the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) into furlough. Maybe it’s time to call them on their bluff and go one step further: Let’s shut down the DHS. The agency is no longer relevant in an age where cyberterrorism may be the new normal,…
The results of a Guardian investigation into Richard Zuley’s detective work, particularly when visited on minority communities, suggest a continuum between Guantanamo interrogation rooms and Chicago police precincts Illustration: Nate Kitch for the Guardian A Chicago detective who led one of the most shocking acts of torture ever conducted at Guantánamo Bay was responsible for…
While US military and intelligence interrogation impacted people overseas, Homan Square – said to house military-style vehicles and even a cage – focuses on American citizens, most often poor, black and brown. ‘When you go in,’ Brian Jacob Church told the Guardian, ‘nobody knows what happened to you.’ Video: Phil Batta for the Guardian; editing:…
February 21, 2015 Weather: An Immediate, Personalized Form Of Breaking News We Can All Learn From It’s snowing in DC. I’m not going to write a long note today, but if you get a chance today, take a look at the Capital Weather Gang Twitter feed. You’ll notice that most of the information is crowdsourced from…
The Media’s Unproductive Obsession With Oligarchs and Gentrifiers By: Stephen Smith on February 20th 2015 at 4:00 pm Time Warner Center, image from Wikipedia Earlier this month, the New York Times published the results of its year-plus-long investigation into the buyers of condos at the Time Warner Center and other buildings around the bottom of Central…
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Monday, February 16, 2015, 10:06 PM Updated: Tuesday, February 17, 2015, 2:49 PM They’re 500 feet apart: the city’s most expensive penthouse and a 50-year-old homeless man swaddled in five blankets. “I just survive,” Deuce said Monday, as he burrowed deeper to escape the brutal cold just half a block…
google_ad_section_start By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) – Resentment has mounted so much in South Korea against what has come to be known as “gabjil”, high-handedness by the rich and powerful, that parliamentarians are proposing legislation to punish some of the worst abuses. A bill to be presented in the national assembly this month is formally…
google_ad_section_start Police in the Danish capital Copenhagen shot dead a man Sunday they believe carried out fatal shootings at a cultural centre hosting a debate on Islam and free speech and at the city’s main synagogue. Following is a chronology of jihadist attacks around the world over the past three years: – In DENMARK on…