December 22, 2020 Pearl River Ahhh…it’s the end of the year when sugarplums are dancing in dreams of Congressional representatives in both houses and on all sides of the aisle. It may have taken seven months for a skinny stimulus bill to pass and extending funding for the government just must be a last-minute deal. …
Homeless Squatters vs. Gentrifiers
December 21, 2020 Pearl River Congress passed a skinny stimulus bill for $900 billion to win the “better than nothing” award for 2020. Whoopee! The bill does promise a bit of cash for everyone in the by and by, and that’s good. Legislators snuck in a piece that bars surprise medical bills, which is also …
Urban Highway Dividers
December 20, 2020 Pearl River Remember way back when, back in 2018-19 in the “before” times, when Amazon was jacking up cities, large and small, to compete for their headquarters location? New York rejected the notion, Nashville captured a piece, and now with the surge in on-line ordering under the pandemic, cities, large and small, …