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Kevin Pranis
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Customers shouldn't fall for fan fiction claiming publicly-traded ownership is inherently better. “The SEC doesn’t care about ratepayers. The NYSE doesn’t care about ratepayers. Those regulations don’t serve ratepayers in any way. They serve investors"
August 22, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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The NIMBY three step: “I participated in the public process and did not get my way” becomes “I was left out of the decision making process” and then turns into “I deserve the power to overturn the result of the public process and impose my will on the majority by lawsuit.”
"There was a process that occurred and many people felt they were left out from the decision process," Van Doorn said."... I thought that was really unfair. It's not just the nine plaintiffs who are involved. There are hundreds and hundreds of people behind us who are supporting not having the city ordinance as it's drafted." Van Doorn said that, after Circuit Court judge Claude Worrell granted the plaintiffs a summary judgement in the case, due to the city's outside counsel missing a filing deadline, the plaintiffs attempted to negotiate with the city. "We thought, at this time, it would be best to sit down with the city," Van Doorn told Schilling. "We never had any intention of blowing up the whole zoning (ordinance). We just had some certain issues with how it was processed." Van Doorn, 71, said the plaintiffs asked for the city to conduct a Virginia Department of Transportation impact study, something it believed was required before the new ordinance was adopted in 2024. They also asked that residential zones revert to residential-agricultural zoning. Van Doorn opposes converting those zones to high density zones. He said the city, the next day, said no. Now, Worrell will hear the city's defense in regards to the failure to do the VDOT study on Monday. The plaintiffs will have a chance to respond Wednesday. Van Doorn said he expects a final ruling in the case on Friday.
August 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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jamellebouie.net
i think also the primacy of national politics in political discourse has maybe led people to forget that governance is very decentralized and the federal government does not control the states and has limited enforcement power over them
February 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM