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 $$$

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.

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/

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!

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.

But I've sent the episode to my leadership team as a case study anyway, hahaha

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!

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.

I think because that's the one place where you see this sort of mismatched eyelines

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

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.

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.