Stephen G Volan

Bloomington is a "college town." The large university here is not its own municipality (hello, Clemson) and completely inside city limits, so half our 80,000 population is college students. But only one's ever served on our city council. A 🧵 about local gov’t (w/maps). 1/29

RT @DougJBalloon: There is no Constitutional prohibition against deleting surveillance footage, so I’m not sure what Jack Smith thinks he’s…

@codykirkpatrick IU is a city. But it’s not a city. But it’s a city! But it’s *not* a city.

Tearing up a high-traffic sidewalk with not a cone, not a barrier, not a warning sign anywhere to be found. Pedestrians having to walk into oncoming traffic. Can’t we do better than this, IU?

@caitorade He could have been the voice of the actual crown

@melindo64 Why not just invent a new one, like G=zl^3, and pimp the hell out of it

@dbenderpt Daylight time has ended again, my friend

How is it only 6:37 and pitch dark outside??

@benfulton Thanks, @benfulton! But it was really a group effort by two different commission lineups six (!) years apart. It may have been that when I floated a benefit district back in the day, it got a knee-jerk negative reaction. We can eventually amend the policy!

@sgv Nice city parking policy you put together! Any reason you didn't add "spend the meter revenue to improve public services in the metered areas" to the point about finances?

@rileychoe1 I’m in

@rileychoe1 Okay. Got a few million lying around?

@rileychoe1 The existing line through Bloomington is rated for maybe 40 mph. It’d take a major upgrade to make passenger rail practical.

@Artventuno @FnsiSocial Non sono il Sindicato giornalisti Veneto, grazie

Una riflessione collettiva sul caso Jannacopulos, gli interventi di ⁦@FnsiSocial⁩ e @sgv articolo21.org/2022/10/una-ri…

Hey @aaron_renn @Ashton_Hackman @idsnews, I wrote a thing about redistricting the city council map of a college town, and the students who never get real representation. It's probably going to cost me my political career; maybe it's interesting. twitter.com/sgv/status/157…

I wrote a 67,000-word master’s thesis about the geography of American higher education (know any publishers?), so in case you have a lot of thoughts about this thread or related topics, I probably have a lot more thoughts about 'em. Let’s talk over a can of Liquid Death. 29/29

...it’s unlikely that my home precinct will get put back in. My political future is a matter for another time (and tweetstorm). I've tried to do right by my constituents; this feels like the proper action I should take for them. 28/29

Here's a map of 3 full / 5 partial Bloomington city precincts and their 2020 populations. Everything in purple or pink is either dorms, Greek-letter houses, or "family student housing". There’s not a house or privately-owned dwelling to be found in this area about 1.5 mi^2. 15/29