coney dog urbanist
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coney dog urbanist
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Build a Motor City with fewer motors. All things transit, development, and urban design in Detroit.

Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.


Aldi runs profitable grocery stores with fresh produce, meat, and dairy sections in some of the poorest neighborhoods of Kansas City, including one where a nonprofit grocer subsidized by the city to fight food deserts recently failed. Aldi is the best solution to food deserts we have, poor cities should be making puppy eyes at Aldi.

Every time I cross the double tracks at 9 Mile & Hilton I can't believe we don't have a regional Pontiac = Ann Arbor local rail running every 30 minutes.


📜 Indian Removal Act 📍 United States 🇺🇸 🗓️ May 26, 1830 🏛️ House of Representatives ✅ 101 For ❌ 97 Against 🪶 The mass displacement of Native Americans living east of the Mississippi to present-day Oklahoma is enacted 😭 This deadly march became known as the Trail of Tears





In Chicago you have to be lobby-maxxing. Just walk into random lobbies and look at them. They’ll let you do it for free

Average US gasoline prices have risen at the fastest pace over the past two days since 2005.



























