Friday, February 06, 2004 Friday, February 06, 2004Out-sourcing labor to the craft guilds
That's not a sentence, nor is it a paragraph. Why it surrounded by a <p /> element?
12:49:23 PM # Google It!
categories: Industry
"Fingers," © 2004 Emily Cox
BTW, broadband is for uploading.
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categories: Family
Thursday, February 05, 2004Dear President Bush:
I understand you are very concerned about the legal recognition that love has no bounds. But why don't you let them go to Hell on their own, and leave the Constitution out of it?
Thanks.
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categories: Law, Politics
I don't like lobsters. They go SNAP! SNAP! like this. They could even pinch off your belly button — but not if you have an innie. If you have an outie, they could, but not if you have an innie.
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categories: Family
Wednesday, February 04, 2004Senate Panel OKs $56.5B for Mass Transit:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal spending to modernize mass transit rail systems for big cities won approval Wednesday from the Senate Banking Committee as part of a $56.5 billion bill for public transit programs over the next six years.
The spending, some $20 billion over the current six-year program, is part of a $318 billion highway and infrastructure bill already on the Senate floor.
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The Senate bill is S. 1072
(Haven't found permalinks, yet, so this link will decay. Well, if it's from yesterday's paper, it's not news.)
In the Northeast, TransitChek reallocates some of the costs of commuting, moreso if you use public transit. However, nothing pays for our time on the road.
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categories: Place
Ascription is an anathema to any enthusiasm points to an excellent post on commuting as a means of shifting the costs of shopping or working to me. While I'd rather not increase those costs, we are considering moving further upstate. Perhaps if my employer realized the costs of commuting, then we could work from home.
If, as I'll argue below, most travel should be regarded as being in the same economic category as working and if, as the stats linked above imply, Americans spend about twice as much time travelling as Australians, then reducing travel times to the Australian level would be equivalent to a productivity improvement of between 12 and 15 per cent.
Here's a pair of hypothetical questions.
Suppose someone working at home were to take a shower, slip, and fall. Would that person, falling in their shower, at their house, while allegedly working from home, be entitled to compensation from the employer for the injury?
Suppose someone driving safely to work, slides on the ice, and crashes into a tree. Would that person be entitled to compensation from the employer for the injury?
In which of the two cases is the individual really on their own time?
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categories: Law, Place
Say no more; say no more!
Tauzin May Become Pharmaceutical Lobbyist [via The Associated Press (RSS)]
Jenny, you'll want to use this.
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Tuesday, February 03, 2004I'm really enjoying PLANetizen. Today, among other things, it gives us a virtual tour of Waterford, Loudon County, Virgina.
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categories: Place
For the Greeks, cheese is not a food supplement, it is food.
I'm kicking myself that I didn't bring the block of feta to work.
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Monday, February 02, 2004The 202/35/6/Bear Mountain Parkway Sustainable Living Study has principles. Concerned Residents of Southeast have some materials about the Route 22 expansion, but nothing as coherent. Pictures would be nice. The St. Croix Valley Development Design Study has some.
2:40:36 PM # Google It!
categories: Place
The town of Southeast, New York, prohibits street vendors, and can't sublet the parking lot at the Southeast Station without the MTA's approval. This led to the removal of coffee from the morning commute. It also means that the Southeast Station sits in the middle of a barren wasteland of a parking lot.
Somers wants to reduce the rate of growth of their student population:
Town Board member Richard Nicholson argued that the school board would no longer see the large developments that swelled enrollments during the 1990s, when Somers' population increased 13 percent. One reason: Land in town has been rezoned from 1-acre lots to 3-acre lots.
"A good example is Eagle River, a 680-acre parcel, which is almost a square mile, where they are now talking about 108 units," Nicholson said. "That same piece was investigated in the mid-1980s for 1,500 to 2,700 units."
Nicholson noted that one exception was a proposal for a village-sized development near Baldwin Place. The plan calls for stores, offices and 220 townhomes and rental apartments.
I wonder what they mean by a "village-sized development." Baldwin Place is just over the county line from Mahopac.
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