Adam M. Butz
@adammbutz.bsky.social
California State University, Long Beach - Graduate Center for Public Policy & Administration: Urban Affairs | Policy Development-Implementation | Representative Bureaucracy | St. Louis City Native | Dad
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I’m calling it now: CA SB79, which legalizes apartments near mass transit stops, will improve rather than ruin neighborhood character
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I’m calling it now: CA SB79, which legalizes apartments near mass transit stops, will improve rather than ruin neighborhood character
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[BILL ALERT] SB 79, which broadly legalizes more homes near high quality transit stops, has passed the Senate floor! The bill is now on the Governor’s desk. Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/...
SB 79 (Wiener): Transit-Oriented Development and Upzoning
SB 79 will make it faster and easier to build multi-family housing near transit stops, like train and rapid bus lines, by making it legal for more homes to be built in these areas and streamlining exi...
cayimby.org
September 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Hotel Europe Building in Vancouver’s Gastown neighborhood. This flatiron beauty was built in 1908 and is simply stunning! #photography #streetphotography #vancouver #architecture
July 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Hotel Europe Building in Vancouver’s Gastown neighborhood. This flatiron beauty was built in 1908 and is simply stunning! #photography #streetphotography #vancouver #architecture
After exploring Vancouver we trekked it to Denman Island, and stayed at this gorgeous property. Deer were frolicking in the meadow. Felt like I was in a dream. #vacation #canada #denmanisland #photography #canonphotography
July 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
After exploring Vancouver we trekked it to Denman Island, and stayed at this gorgeous property. Deer were frolicking in the meadow. Felt like I was in a dream. #vacation #canada #denmanisland #photography #canonphotography
My first ever book review is published at @jsepajournal.bsky.social. @ctburks.bsky.social and I reviewed Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's seminal work, "Race for Profit", and offered key lessons for public administrators pursuing social equity in housing policy: jsepajournal.org/index.php/js...
View of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
jsepajournal.org
July 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
My first ever book review is published at @jsepajournal.bsky.social. @ctburks.bsky.social and I reviewed Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's seminal work, "Race for Profit", and offered key lessons for public administrators pursuing social equity in housing policy: jsepajournal.org/index.php/js...
View of Vancouver from my window seat! Gorgeous city. #vacation #familyvacation
July 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
View of Vancouver from my window seat! Gorgeous city. #vacation #familyvacation
Brint Milward’s cautionary insights about the hollow state and public service delivery are worth your time.
New, at Can We Still Govern?
The hollow state is the network of state & local, private & non-profit providers that deliver public services. Brint Milward warns that federal cuts will cascade through this network, causing services to collapse. #policysky
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/health-car...
The hollow state is the network of state & local, private & non-profit providers that deliver public services. Brint Milward warns that federal cuts will cascade through this network, causing services to collapse. #policysky
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/health-car...
Health Care and The Hollow State
How Federal Cuts Will Cascade Through State and Local Services
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Brint Milward’s cautionary insights about the hollow state and public service delivery are worth your time.
*chef’s kiss*
Cartoon with caption by my buddy @jackhauen.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 4:55 AM
*chef’s kiss*
April 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
New Public Service paradigm needs to contend with the reality that broad swaths of U.S. society openly reject the notion of the public good.
April 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
New Public Service paradigm needs to contend with the reality that broad swaths of U.S. society openly reject the notion of the public good.
April 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Regressive tax hike on everything you buy plus tax cuts weighted toward the wealthy plus increased deficits plus slashing cuts to all public services and the social safety net... this is a very bad combination.
April 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Regressive tax hike on everything you buy plus tax cuts weighted toward the wealthy plus increased deficits plus slashing cuts to all public services and the social safety net... this is a very bad combination.
Need more urbanism in children's books and toys. Farm themes are overrepresented. Everything seems to have either a cow or sheep involved.
April 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Need more urbanism in children's books and toys. Farm themes are overrepresented. Everything seems to have either a cow or sheep involved.
March 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Dandelion fountain outside Brotman Hall, CSULB #university #universitylife #campus #photography #fountain #csulb
March 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Dandelion fountain outside Brotman Hall, CSULB #university #universitylife #campus #photography #fountain #csulb
My son got vax shots and I’m singing this West Side Story banger on repeat to keep the fever at bay. “Keep it cool boy, real cool.”
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West Side Story - Cool (1961) HD
YouTube video by John Long
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March 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
My son got vax shots and I’m singing this West Side Story banger on repeat to keep the fever at bay. “Keep it cool boy, real cool.”
youtu.be/wugWGhItaQA?...
youtu.be/wugWGhItaQA?...
What makes the subway fear mongering especially stupid is that riding public transit is much safer than driving! Statistically speaking, you are much more likely to get injured or perish in a car than riding transit.
Duffy on the New York City subway: "It's dangerous. It's dirty ... they don't want you to drive your car. They want you to take a train. If you want me to take a train, make the train safe, make it clean. But if you won't do that, we're gonna pull money."
March 19, 2025 at 11:23 PM
What makes the subway fear mongering especially stupid is that riding public transit is much safer than driving! Statistically speaking, you are much more likely to get injured or perish in a car than riding transit.
From the same people who deny socially constructed aspects of race, gender, etc.
SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada.
Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
Trump to declare fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
www.thehandbasket.co
March 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
From the same people who deny socially constructed aspects of race, gender, etc.
Saturday Spin - Alvvays, Antisocialites
Alvvays is a Canadian based band with a dreamy indie rock vibe that I can’t get enough of! #vinyl #alvvays #indierock
Alvvays is a Canadian based band with a dreamy indie rock vibe that I can’t get enough of! #vinyl #alvvays #indierock
March 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Saturday Spin - Alvvays, Antisocialites
Alvvays is a Canadian based band with a dreamy indie rock vibe that I can’t get enough of! #vinyl #alvvays #indierock
Alvvays is a Canadian based band with a dreamy indie rock vibe that I can’t get enough of! #vinyl #alvvays #indierock
Put a white noise machine in our room for the baby, and now I’m sleeping like one.
March 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Put a white noise machine in our room for the baby, and now I’m sleeping like one.
Imagine the fire-breathing racist vitriol if Obama and his unofficial co-president had 19 children with 8 different women, while hawking cars on the White House lawn.
March 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Imagine the fire-breathing racist vitriol if Obama and his unofficial co-president had 19 children with 8 different women, while hawking cars on the White House lawn.
Nothing antisemitic about a gentile president unilaterally stripping the ethnic identity of prominent Jewish people.
Trump: "Schumer is a Palestinian as far as I'm concerned. He's become a Palestinian. He used to be Jewish. He's not Jewish anymore. He's a Palestinian."
March 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Nothing antisemitic about a gentile president unilaterally stripping the ethnic identity of prominent Jewish people.
Vernal Falls, Yosemite National Park (July 2024)
Standing in solidarity with our talented and dedicated National Park staff. #photography #publicservice
Standing in solidarity with our talented and dedicated National Park staff. #photography #publicservice
March 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Vernal Falls, Yosemite National Park (July 2024)
Standing in solidarity with our talented and dedicated National Park staff. #photography #publicservice
Standing in solidarity with our talented and dedicated National Park staff. #photography #publicservice
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The obsession with housing is so needed by energy folks. Can't solve the energy crisis without solving the housing crisis
Today on Volts: you may have noticed that some climate/energy types (like me) have become obsessed with housing & urban land use lately. Why? Why are they climate issues? What's the connection? The great @mateosfo.bsky.social and I attempt to answer those questions.
Why housing is a pass/fail question for climate
Housing is a climate issue we can't afford to ignore — Matthew Lewis explains why.
www.volts.wtf
March 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The obsession with housing is so needed by energy folks. Can't solve the energy crisis without solving the housing crisis