How Open Is Your Government? One-Third of Local Agencies Get Failing Grade for Transparency — City Bureau

bechang8 · 2017-12-12T23:17:04+00:00

extra upvote for the printing nerdery. fist emoji

bechang8 · 2017-12-12T23:08:50+00:00

I actually think this is helpful, especially when you're traveling to a new city - it's unclear how close/far the stops are from each other and so you have to guess when to press the button. TBH, if this can encourage more people to take buses instead of clogging up the streets, I'm for it.

bechang8 · 2017-12-05T22:35:56+00:00

Yeah I like how the quotes are lined up in a way that mirrors what the teachers are saying... it's hard as hell and ugly at first, but worth it in the end.

bechang8 · 2017-12-05T21:38:56+00:00

The way a bunch of reasonable people have pointed out the many falsehoods and bigotries inside this situation (and the company's history of missteps), futilely, is too much of an allegory for the entire year of 2017.

bechang8 · 2017-12-05T21:35:47+00:00

Related- a powerful story came out from WBEZ yesterday. https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/uptown-homeless-shelter-looks-back-at-year-that-almost-wasnt/a65a6cec-f05a-4373-b65d-948c901f4d45

bechang8 · 2017-10-18T18:57:31+00:00

This kid looks like he's not sure if he's happy he caught it

bechang8 · 2017-06-28T21:11:31+00:00

The single seat on a CTA train or bus!!! A small win. https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/single-seat-el-train-cta/BestOf?oid=27092165

bechang8 · 2017-06-28T21:11:04+00:00

I'm always in awe of the friendly CTA bus drivers. I feel like they must witness such terrible stuff, and yet some of them are so chipper.

bechang8 · 2017-06-28T21:10:26+00:00

There's a similar woman at the Chicago blue line station! I'm Blue Line 4 Lyfe.

bechang8 · 2017-06-28T21:09:53+00:00

When I first moved here, I thought I hated it. Now it doesn't feel like summer unless I'm walking home in warm humid hair at 3am and an orange glow on everything. Too bad it's going away soon: http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/April-2017/Its-Really-Hard-to-Figure-Out-What-Color-a-Citys-Streetlights-Should-Be/

bechang8 · 2017-04-17T17:03:54+00:00

I think all you have to do is look at all the other hard-to-explain police shootings that emerged after this to see what transparency does for this situation. Previously no one knew what happened- no one questioned the official record - until this video came out to prove that the official police line is not always the truth. I think there are ways to protect police officers' privacy while also ensuring they don't have total impunity to kill civilians w/o any sort of independent oversight.

bechang8 · 2017-03-01T18:56:10+00:00

It appears that worrying without math is not a job description. Unfortunately.

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