3/10 The Port of Longview didn't just get lucky. They spent a decade preparing.

They removed 1,000 creosote pilings, demolished old silos, and secured a US$90-million rail corridor doubling freight capacity.

While Canada stalled, Longview got shovel-ready.

7/8 We are left with a grim paradox.

Culling is the "major tool" to stop the spread, yet it triggers the rage that silences the regulators.

Canada bought 500,000 vaccine doses, preparing for the worst.

2/ According to the WSJ, talks between Trump's golfing friend Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev have bypassed the US national security and diplomatic apparatuses to focus on economic benefits for well-connected American companies.

Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, & homelessness is now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if political ideology doesn’t stand in the way.
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Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?

Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst

"Aggressive accounting," "favorable treatment off the balance sheet," and "convenient assumptions" all in the headline and subhead. Geez.