Neil Miller
neilsmiller.bsky.social
Neil Miller
@neilsmiller.bsky.social
Former federal gov. data scientist, urbanist, Neilchik
No, I don't have a count of 2025 registered voters by precinct handy
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Following up on an earlier reply, just finished this piece, from Massachusetts:

Police Planning Places for People: how "stakeholder engagement" inflates reduces livability and increases the cost of affordable housing in Massachusetts

open.substack.com/pub/cascadea...
open.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
And in the Hingham example the Board of Zoning Appeals required wider interior roads (at least 24 feet) for emergency vehicle access, parking, and school buses
June 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
In 40b developers sometimes pay for infrastructure upgrades. In the Shrewsbury link, a letter from the police chief said building a new development would require the town to hire 1.75 additional officers and buy an additional police cruiser - sure the town would want the developers to pay for that
June 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Not research per se, but plenty of examples where police departments make these requests as part of Massachusetts 40b process. May write about some of these soon:
shrewsburyma.gov/1464/104-Mai...
www.hingham-ma.gov/728/Pending-...
June 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Two tours daily at the Museum, Wednesday-Sunday, recommend anyone to go visit
Operating Hours & Seasons - Boston African American National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
www.nps.gov
June 19, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I did the math, the most "damage" that can be done cancelling Harvard's contracts is half of that amount.

open.substack.com/pub/cascadea...
June 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Yeah but it was probably more a pro-Fulop vote, instead of anti-Sherrill 🤷 One family member's worked in JC for 30+ years and likes what Fulop's done as mayor. Not strictly voting on statewide policy
June 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Some of my family voted Fulop, but they probably would've voted Sherrill if he wasn't running. Different bases, votes wouldn't transfer cleanly
June 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The Orthodox community there votes as a block, e.g. leaders say who to vote for and everyone follows their guidance. This year they supported Trump and Gillibrand. Similar pattern in 2020, 2022, not too hard to explain.
www.shtetl.org/article/anal...
Analyzing the Haredi Vote in the 2024 General Election • Shtetl - Haredi Free Press
Getting into the details of how the Shtetl voted.
www.shtetl.org
June 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Seems like a debate about messaging - the Politico article called it a "policy research and messaging hub." Just thought there'd be more to it than parsing a memo from November 🤷‍♂️

"Medicare for All" is a good message b/c it's universal, "simple, concrete", not just for specific identities
June 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM