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Correct, Miami has vastly superior land use policies that have resulted in a reasonable amount of market rate affordable housing. Build 50 of these.

A tonsured monk running 3D CAD software to make water-cut stone facade pieces for their new build gothic cloister in Wyoming is an image from a fever dream or acid trip. Super cool though!

Love historic preservation, but it seems like this also really runs to the cost of maintenance, conversion, and rehabilitation. Didn't know there were explicit tax incentives to support these historically zoned areas: Why is the City interested in having buildings and historic districts...

100% agree! It's extremely boring but our water-in-water-out infrastructure with Deer Island has got to be the best integrated system in the country. Clean and abundant fresh water with very little pollution in what used to be a horribly polluted harbor.

That cuts both ways, though, except they get to pull from the Quabbin if things go sideways for their supply. Just a few years ago they had a delay getting new PFAS filters (after the numbers had been steadily rising...) and drew from Quabbin while they sorted it out. Didn't impact the MWRA...

Man, New England really needs to get its act together on grid supply. Inexcusable for us to be paying the highest rates in the country while everyone else is just throwing new capacity around and driving prices to such low levels.

Yeah for those like me who missed it, didn’t realize she changed her position here: https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2026/02/10/wu-says-she-would-vote-for-statewide-rent-control-through-proposed-ballot-question/

Looks like Boston Harbor Distillery got the new contract: https://www.rosekennedygreenway.org/news/boston-harbor-distillery-joins-greenway-beverage-gardens-in-2026/ Thankfully it's not just liquor: This partnership not only strengthens the Conservancy’s commitment to supporting small local...

Is it the flooded gravel school bus depot they want to keep or the open air junk yard and mechanic shop next door? I didn't realize this was the neighborhood character that was so important to preserve in Newton. I guess if you're going on record saying new housing doesn't fit the neighborhood...

Technocratic zoning changes making their way to the Globe front page and the Governor's desk. Massive cultural victory for the good guys. Lower costs and add more livable space! https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/12/business/staircases-housing-building-code/

This whole thing is crazy to me. I'm obviously not in the weeds, but this project has gone NOWHERE for decades. The idea that it's just around the corner and all will be made right, finally, this time, just seems delusional. A lab building supposedly being at the center of this project, in this...

The point isn't that he deserves an airport or whatever, it's that he is explicitly withholding appropriated federal funds on a massive transit project until he gets these locations named after him. It's blackmail and everyone should say no.

I agree we should have more pedestrian-only, or generally car-reduced areas of the city, especially around big events. People would lose their minds at not having door-to-door Uber service, but that's another conversation... For Waymo, they're very cautious and their sensors really do give a...

I rode my first Waymo recently and I was radicalized. Like, the moment the ride started my mind was made up. It is the clear future of driving and is extremely impressive across the board. The one tradeoff I noticed is that in some very crowded areas the cars will drop you just outside the area...

Finishing the outbound Kendall head house would be great too. It’s been stagnant for months at what looks like 95% completion. Any word? Absolutely no visible regular activity.

And apparently Healey and the premier of Nova Scotia just signed an MOU today about additional offshore wind capacity in the northern Atlantic. I like this idea, there are plausible interconnects to share power but it avoids US federal review, and NS has almost no demand but a huge opportunity...

Authority was bestowed on the literal governor of this state who signed the law that was passed by the house and senate. Pretty much as democratic as things get. I understand it's frustrating for some towns to be asked to do a paper exercise to increase their zoning capacity, but if ~95% of...

So I think this is the completed building right next to Amrheins that's been finished for awhile. They're asking to convert to several floors to housing from commercial, which is great. Maybe one of the few developer-directed conversions that isn't taking advantage of the Mayor's program...

As always the biggest obstacle is NIMBYs and activists pushing back on the exact progress that they claim to want to promote. Pilgrim, shut down. Seabrook expansion in NH, blocked and in regulatory hell. Offshore wind...at least 50/50 split by cape and island residents. Even battery storage...

I would simply re-engineer the brand new multimillion dollar concourse and waiting area to enclose the sides (and that damn gap in the top) to keep the snow from clogging my brand new fare gates.