Policy in the Future
policyfuture.bsky.social
Policy in the Future
@policyfuture.bsky.social
Just thinking about what comes next
The ECHL is owned by a bunch of small time and parochial owners who don't have big margins themselves, and can't operate at a loss. That's the system that the NHL aligned with *and benefits from* developing players and bringing affordable hockey to new markets. They should intervene, and bring $$$
December 22, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Maybe folks have, and have their quibbles with the specifics, but we need like 6 of these in the works, and that exists at least. I worry that there's a wish for a "good" billionaire to do for us what has happened to CBS, and that feels an unproductive space to wait in.
December 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
To illustrate, Courier has been trying to do something along the "building up party controlled media" lines for years and seemingly nobody in the discussion has heard about it? couriernewsroom.com/about/
December 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
NG presence in DC a good example: They just... Stand around. It's obvious watching them that if they tried to arrest, say fare jumpers, it would break their capacity, as they'd then also have to do paperwork, testify, hold prisoners, make arrests safely, control crowds. So they just hang out!
December 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I mean, short term it's nice that they don't have the capacity to do evil stuff, but, uh, it's bad that the entire federal government can't do stuff, yeah.
December 19, 2025 at 6:05 AM
But I've sent the episode to my leadership team as a case study anyway, hahaha
December 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
100% chance that the feeling here was "this is one of those history-type book authors who trade access for gentle coverage, and Vanity Fair is for Rich People, so they're friendly and will save any juicy stuff."

And well, usually they'd be right, and it's interesting that this time it wasn't!
December 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I actually like Right to the City schemes that can address displacement/gentrification, and I'm a proponent of going back to Public Housing basics, but the goal has to be to add residents to urban areas, so market rate building has to be in the mix, math doesn't work otherwise.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I think because that's the one place where you see this sort of mismatched eyelines
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I... don't even feel like I can chart this out accurately, but I know it doesn't the one rule for this stuff lol
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I don't understand why this isn't a boiling scandal for voters in, like, Michigan who are paying for them to just... stand around all day.

That's the on-the-ground shrugging from DC residents btw: They just stand there, they don't even do bad stuff, those are the surged feds.
November 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Shocking omission from that article to not mention cost: "Do you want the most overloaded neighborhood watch in the world who occasionally mulch when, *for free*?" is a very different circumstance than if DC taxpayers were footing the bill.
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM