Costco makes up for its super low margins on products by selling memberships. With stagnant population and housing growth, membership growth also flattened. The seeds of the midtown Costco’s demise were sewn when elected officials downzoned midtown.

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

In addition to building up, we also need to build down. Thru-running regional rail could transform all of northeastern Illinois, especially on Chicago’s South Side and working-class communities throughout Cook County. It’s time to #BuildTheTunnel. 🔗 buildthetunnelchicago.org

Governor JB Pritzker@govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6mo ago

There isn't enough housing available — and outdated laws make it difficult and expensive to build more. The Building Up Illinois Developments plan would eliminate unnecessary barriers to housing construction and close financing gaps for housing of all kinds.

@staubio.com I’ve never seen any of the old foundations on the riverfront until the overgrowth clearing project made it possible. Amazing work!

If Rochester can do it, your city can too.

North Loop mentioned!

Ray Delahanty | CityNerd@nerd4cities.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New for the Nebulized! Cities and freeways don’t mix. Here are 12 top offenders we should be doing something about nebula.tv/videos/cityn...

We support #KCMO Ordinance 260219, an effort to remove parking minimums in some of the denser parts of the city. Check out our letter of support and submit testimony to the city clerk before the Neighborhood Planning and Development committee meeting on Tuesday, 2/24!

41 miles of new subway for the cost of free buses. Here’s an audacious, expansive plan to expand the subway’s reach & catalyze housing to attack the affordability crisis. An incredible effort from NYU Marron team. Excited for this to be out in the world: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/n...

Free Buses? How About Expanding the Subway by 41 Miles Instead?

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she's just doing what she was hired to do

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Why would you need to put a pause on a story that has been meticulously fact-checked and lawyered? Sounds like the kind of story you’d want to run right away!

Hey Kansas City friends: if you've used bike share this year, please take a few minutes to complete (and share) their annual survey: #bikeshare #KC #bikethere bikesharekc.com/2025/12/05/b...

Big news for bike share! (+ don't forget to take the survey)

New name, new hubs, new app en español, new survey, and hibernation season

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KC NIMBYs arguing for parking minimums… get a grip!

this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics

World’s Biggest Stagflation Truther@corncobanalysis.bsky.social · 11mo ago

just bleak, man

It’s really not that simple yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/do-a...

Do Americans really want urban sprawl? » Yale Climate Connections

Although car-dependent suburbs continue to spread across the nation, they’re not as popular as you might assume.

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Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Right, this is true, but the OVERWHELMING evidence of the past 100 years of American life is that vastly more people want space and a car than a smaller unit and a car-free lifestyle. This is mostly why the suburban share of US population has grown relentlessly for the entire 20th and 21st century

Highways/Freeways are good for connecting far flung places to each other. Running them through cities/neighborhoods was one of the worst ideas of the 20th century -

Good morning! Last night, Illinois’ legislature passed a law, SB2111, which will fund a major expansion of service for the Chicago region’s transit systems, thanks to new revenue sources. The law also takes a major step forward in coordination between agencies.

NITA Chicago@nitachicago.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Statement from the RTA: "The passage of SB2111 is a landmark moment for public transit in Illinois." Read the full statement here or below. www.rtachicago.org/about-rta/pr...

We tried! Business concerns won over the needs of transit users. The exclusive lanes were also a last minute addition.

Marco Chitti@chittimarco.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The rest of the planet, since the late 19th century: let's move our tramways in a central alignment away from the curb, to diminish conflicts and make it faster. US streetcars: Wait, what?

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters@reuters.com · 12mo ago

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

Kind of wild how much of the expanded streetcar transportation development district (taxing district for KC’s new streetcar) doesn’t allow for apartments, or in some cases, even duplexes.

Girders for the new Grand Boulevard pedestrian bridge are nearly all set!

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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More than a third of Americans don’t have reliable car access to get to work, school, or the grocery store. Our new transportation map can help policymakers better understand their communities and build a system that will benefit everyone.

Who Doesn’t Have a Car?

A new NRDC map shows car-free living and the factors affecting car usage in United States.

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Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance Vice Chair Michael Kelley says the poll shows that people across the metro will support public transit if their local governments invest in it, especially at a time when the state and federal governments are pulling back transit funding.

Voters across the Kansas City metro support a sales tax for better bus service, new poll finds

A new poll from the Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance found that voters in four counties across the metro would support a regional sales tax dedicated to bus service, even as soon as next year.

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🚨ADVOCACY ALERT!🚨 KCRTA polling shows majority voter support for transit funding across the Kansas City region! 🧵 1 of 4:

Sam’s Law of Media: The media treats Democrats as the only political actors with agency, responsible for everything happening Republicans, by contrast, are treated like zoo animals: odd, fascinating, but never to be judged and, perhaps more importantly, never responsible for their own decisions

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

The KC Riverfront is (finally) getting some promising urbanism!

Sam Hartle@samhartle.bsky.social · last yr.

Victory walk!

It took, what, eight days? For the pretense that MAGA cares about Charlie Kirk to totally collapse, and for Trump’s megalomania to take center stage again. No matter what they say or do they only ever care about one thing: making us worship Great Leader alongside them

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

Remarkable how centrist pundits like Noah Smith are still prattling on about "cancel culture" and "Bluesky-ization" while people are getting fired for insufficient mourning of a bigoted liar who constantly directed hatred towards the majority of Americans.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · last yr.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

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