Many U.S. states had exactly this one county gets one seat design for their upper chamber until the Supreme Court's one-man-one-vote decision, which said if you weren't this way in the US Constitution (like the Senate) you couldn't do it. Even NYC had this in its Board of Estimate, now gone

The story also buries the lede (or at least something worth much more exploration) in the last graf.

It’s a commercial disguised as a safety instruction, and a good commercial at that. Apparently they actually paid an ad agency to do something with wit. Hard to hold that against them. Just ignore it after the first time. They’ll replace it eventually.

"Gaudy" is indeed le mot juste. "The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter" -- The Maltese Falcon.

@nyc.streetsblog.org note this thread

NYC has a long history of municipally constructed and owned markets (the vendors themselves were private businesses). See mailchi.mp/urbanarchive... My family shopped in one of these in the early '60s because its produce was superior to that available in our (cooperatively owned) supermarket

I thought I was having a stroke when I read this passage in the paper version of the NYT this morning -- thank you for calling them out on exactly the correct grounds and with the right measure of scorn!

Here's an institution (my undergraduate one) preparing to fight illegal recisions in court, or at least give itself breathing room to downsize its research budget in an orderly way www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

Great day to take out the Kerch Bridge for real this time.

Cruz running an updated version of the Proxmire playbook on federal R&D

HPS major here

It's not uncommon for general aviation airports to be untowered, at least during certain hours, but probably rare for them to be demoted from towered to untowered.