Meh I am on the fence about it. When my kids get a snow day my wife is usually already at work so I just work from home for the day. It is the early dismissals that cause more problems.
I feel really bad for my daughter. She doesn’t get snow days like I did when I was a kid. Give them a day off if the snow is 2 feet deep and let them go sledding for fuck’s sake!
I wasn’t talking about climate change. When schools were closed due to snow, my daughter had to do virtual schooling on her Chromebook. Kids should be allowed to have fun.
Having worked in public education for nearly a decade, I can tell you that many of those homes are not fit to adequately cool the children either and many of the parents are not adequately fit to deal with their kids during a surprise early dismissal. Some of those kids will probably die at home.
Cut the athletics budget and use the funds to cool your fucking schools. It’s too damn hot for sports anyway.
We kept asking why he never faced consequences for all his illegal crap. Now it seems like a least a good hunk of them are all happening around the same time. Better late than never.
I’m the same, but for the first time I’m starting to have some hope. It seems really unlikely that he’ll side step all of these charges. He’s lost on the Carroll cases, and that’s a start.
Not an American, so I’m probably missing some info. I’m confused about the comments re Biden. Didn’t the NLRB (sp?) recently make changes that gave a lot of leverage to unions?
It's just republicans trying to politic to their base by misconstruing the facts. Fact is republicans have always been anti-labor. While, unfortunately democrats don't campaign well on their actual accomplishments for working people and tend to expect those accomplishments to stand for themselves. This is also why republicans are mostly dumb and tend to believe whatever the most reactionary (and loud) voice in the room tells them is true, even while those same people stab them in the back while lying to their face.
We've learned that words are meaningless without follow through. The NLRB change is great, but until it actually starts being enforced there isn't anything to get excited about.
Biden is the most pro union President in my lifetime, but that isn't saying much.
It’s fallout from breaking a big railroad workers strike last year. Breaking a strike is a BIG DEAL, so there’s a lot of well-earned mistrust about his dedication to union power. The anti-union-busting thing is a pretty damn good change, but saying “you can’t strike” cuts at the very heart of worker power and kind of eclipses it.
the issue is that it’s not individuals renting out their homes, it’s corporations that rent or purchase many apartments and then put them on air bnb. additionally, landlords leave apartments vacant for many months. both of these factors make renting harder and more expensive in nyc.
NYC is full of these apartment blocks where reasonable apartments got split into 3 or 4 tiny units designed specifically to be put on Airbnb. If they each get 3-4 bookings a month, that’s way more money than would be made renting the whole apartments, which crushes the rental market and drives prices sky high. These measures Should have been implemented 10 years ago. Second best time is now.
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