My parent's house was robbed today. I just found out. Apparently they trashed the whole place - and tore up a lot of my stuff that was being stored out there. I've got to go home to assess the loss/damage. According to my mother, they didn't get much - how could they, none of us have anything worth stealing. (I mean, even the identities are maxed-out for chrissakes...)
Update: Went to City Hall tonight to watch the proceedings, and it doesn't look good for the residents at all. They got a partial reprieve (their enginneer can watch the developer's engineer to check the validity of the safety violation) but in the larger sense, they just took another huge hit, with more to follow, I'm sure. It's really too bad - Jersey City is in real danger of turning into something like downtown Atlanta - these developers are sowing the seeds of their own demise, but they can't take their eye off of the short term rewards. Same shit, different city.
Update: Went to City Hall tonight to watch the proceedings, and it doesn't look good for the residents at all. They got a partial reprieve (their enginneer can watch the developer's engineer to check the validity of the safety violation) but in the larger sense, they just took another huge hit, with more to follow, I'm sure. It's really too bad - Jersey City is in real danger of turning into something like downtown Atlanta - these developers are sowing the seeds of their own demise, but they can't take their eye off of the short term rewards. Same shit, different city.
posted by krimur at
11:23 PM
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You can think of the warehouse district as a huge municipal candy box filled with potential ratables, and the government as a little kid. We've made a few house rules in an effort to keep the kid's hands out of the candy box, and the kid seems to know it would be wrong to raid the candy box, but still, it's just sitting there unsupervised. You want to come down hard on the kid for putting his hand in the box, but when you step back and look at it from a distance, you realize that the kid was never going to be able to sit there forever with the candy box staring back at him.
Goldman's actions are beyond any justification.
Tris
www.trismccall.net
You can think of the warehouse district as a huge municipal candy box filled with potential ratables, and the government as a little kid. We've made a few house rules in an effort to keep the kid's hands out of the candy box, and the kid seems to know it would be wrong to raid the candy box, but still, it's just sitting there unsupervised. You want to come down hard on the kid for putting his hand in the box, but when you step back and look at it from a distance, you realize that the kid was never going to be able to sit there forever with the candy box staring back at him.
Goldman's actions are beyond any justification.
Tris
www.trismccall.net
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