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Alessandro Rigolon
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Associate prof of urban planning. Research on green space equity, green gentrification, climate adaptation, and health equity. Love SLC, my family, and the great outdoors. Opinions (good or bad) are my own 🇮🇹🇺🇸 🌩️👀 rJgnW3igNgz7 .. more

Environmental science 45%
Geography 11%
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My older daughter learned to ride a bike today. She was so happy. As she was riding, she said, “I feel free.” My heart is full.

Yes and she’s been gaining progressively in every ballot drop. So in the end in might be close, but not THAT close

I mean, look at this platform www.wilsonforseattle.com/platform

Another young, progressive, pro-urbanism mayor in a major American city? Yes, please!

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How much homelessness and suffering from low and middle income families who can’t afford a home are we willing to tolerate to keep local control?

The *short* “white ribbon of death”

It's "preference for what one's neighborhood should look like" vs. "addressing the need for shelter for lower-income and unhoused people". Any liberal or progressive elected official who chooses "preference for what one's neighborhood should look like" is probably a conservative

Not happening. Sunday seems optimistic, too

Doesn't do a very good job at that, judging by the lift lines I find at Snowbird

lol

Probably the key part of this piece. It comes down to the following: "What does prioritizing millionaire homeowners’ aversion to change over the needs of the poor and unhoused do to our souls?"

I cannot recommend this piece by @maxdubler.com enough. It articulates very well some of the key differences between the YIMBY and Strong Towns movements regarding housing. It mostly comes down to state preemption and political strategy. Ideology vs. pragmatism.
On The Tension Between YIMBYism and Strong Towns — Max Dubler
Special thanks to those who gave their thoughtful feedback on this piece. The past couple of months have seen quite a bit of Discourse about the differences between Strong Towns and YIMB...
www.maxdubler.com

Or Solitude on, checks notes, Friday

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From street marches to court battles to the ballot box - we’ve challenged the power of this exceptionally unpopular president.

The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.

Thoughts about the leaked final week of the Giro d'Italia 2026? From Lasterketa Burua on the bad site. A couple of trends from the last few years continue: 1. Putting the hardest climbs as the 2nd or 3rd to last to promote long-range attacks. 2. The same big climb repeated twice (like Monte Grappa)

I'll stick to Gent-Wevelgem, thanks

Isolationism isn’t good economic policy. The U.S. hasn’t learned from Brexit and is implementing its on version, tariffs
The evidence keeps accumulating that Brexit was an astonishing self-inflicted economic policy disaster. The fact that it is a slow-moving one bodes ill for those who think that populist economic mismanagement will translate into voters punishing populists. www.nber.org/system/files...
The evidence keeps accumulating that Brexit was an astonishing self-inflicted economic policy disaster. The fact that it is a slow-moving one bodes ill for those who think that populist economic mismanagement will translate into voters punishing populists. www.nber.org/system/files...

You can read about Mike’s experience in this Building Salt Lake story
OPINION: Utah Needs More Transit to Trailheads - Building Salt Lake
Take a peep at the leaves through the lenses of transit advocate Mike Christensen.
buildingsaltlake.com

In Salt Lake City, you can take transit from downtown and get to one of the most popular hikes of the Wasatch (Bloods Lake). It does, however, take about 2+ hours to get there via transit (2 transfers) vs 1 h 10 min if you drive. All transit rides are free
File this under "Transit to Trailheads." Today I rode buses to hike in the Wasatch. First leg is High Valley Transit 107 from downtown SLC to Kimball Junction Transit Center. 😀

Chat, show me a policy that will cause more inflation
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he will give a $2,000 check to every American, which will come from the tariff revenue collected by the administration.

kutv.com/news/nation-...

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President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that he will give a $2,000 check to every American, which will come from the tariff revenue collected by the administration.

kutv.com/news/nation-...

You guys have exactly three months to learn Spanish
a man wearing a white t-shirt that says togetherness on it
ALT: a man wearing a white t-shirt that says togetherness on it
media.tenor.com

I heard the “team down south” didn’t have the best game today. Too bad

Maybe I’m in the minority, but I’m a pretty big fan of the urbanism of some ski resorts

Yes and I buy Italian flour 🤌

I love this a lot less for me, with all the pasta we eat 😂

Lots of demographic groups are slowly entering the “find out” phase, little by little