What’s been said already, plus, think about redlining as a clear example: banks were/are willing to give mortgages for suburban homes but not so much for ‘urban’ ones except in the swankiest white neighborhoods. So what you can buy in a major city is more likely to be a condo or townhouse, built close together, rather than a stand-alone single family house. Meanwhile, out in the suburbs, particularly the ones built after WWII, you get entire tracts of nothing but homes, and even getting to such basics as school or the grocery store require driving. The average home-to-land ratio is completely upside down.
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I used to complain bitterly about how long it took for me to get to high school from our (deep in the burbs) house. Shortly after I started university, my mum sent me a news article about high school kids who were in a newer part of our neighbourhood and went to a different school. They weren’t eligible for a school bus because they were too close to the school, but the closest public bus stop was an hour’s walk away because the public transit system hasn’t been expanded to match subdivision growth.
ETA: Should mention the labyrinthine street layout meant that “close” as the crow flies was much longer to walk/drive.
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As pedestrian, I know exactly what you mean. All that wasted space, just to “gently” curve a road.
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Remember the autistic guy with the toy truck and his carer?
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If the U.S. Supreme Court agrees, then Flowers’s conviction for multiple murders in 1996 will be set aside.
Of course, if that happens, Evans can simply try Flowers again on the same charges. And why wouldn’t he? Evans has already prosecuted Flowers for the same crime six times over the past 20 years.
Evans’s record against Flowers is 1–5. First, he obtained a conviction that was set aside by the state appeals courts because of misconduct designed to confuse and mislead the jury—he introduced evidence of crimes that were not before the court; implied that he had evidence that a defense witness had lied when there was no such evidence; and told the jury about “taped statements” by Flowers that didn’t exist. In the next two trials, he obtained convictions by engaging in the precise misconduct alleged in this case: intentionally using race to skew the jury against Flowers, who is African American. The next two trials ended in mistrials because the jurors could not agree. The second time that happened, the trial judge had the lone holdout—an African American juror—arrested in the courtroom, and threatened to jail Flowers’s African American lawyer. Charges against the juror were dropped, but a message was sent. The sixth time, in 2010, a jury agreed that Flowers was guilty of four murders and sentenced him to death.
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Doug Evans may very well be there. He certainly can spare the time: He is running for a fifth term as district attorney—unopposed.
That seems to be the story of his career.
His first election, he primaried his predecessor; since then, he’s had one electoral opponent in six elections, with a seventh that looks likely to go the same way.
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Since his inauguration, Mr. Bolsonaro has weakened or defunded government agencies that oversee protections for the Amazon and indigenous people and given those responsibilities to the pro-farming, pro-mining, pro-timber agriculture ministry.
The result is that indigenous people, who have secured government protection for about 13 percent of Brazil’s territory, fear there will be no more lands set aside, Ms. Guajajara said.
Lands that are formally recognized as “collective lands” are owned by the government but guaranteed under the Constitution for the exclusive use of indigenous groups. Mr. Bolsonaro says he wants those lands made “more productive.”
Plus, there’s the whole “kill the climate” perspective, but, that’s another topic.
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Oxygen doesn’t increase the GNP, I suppose.
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Our rulers just want to see the world burn…
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Seems like too many of our neighbors agree.
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some people have other priorities.
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They forgot to cuff her third arm?
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That outcome looks to have become likelier…
In addition to Breyer, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan, it looks like there’s a good chance that Roberts and Kavanaugh will vote to reverse the conviction.
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