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Historic preservation is bad for affordability #296903.
Parking lot preserved as historic landmark (yes, this is not the Onion) in Cleveland Park, DC raises price to $26 for parking less than one hour -- even less than 15 minutes. https://www.popville.com/2025/08/cleveland

“Anyone else experience the new parking scheme at Sam’s Park n’ Ride?” - PoPville
"Dear PoPville, I wanted to write to you to see if anyone else has experienced the new parking scheme at Sam's Park n' Ride in Cleveland Park. I went to pull into the lot the other day, and it said "just pull through" with no ticket to pull. I did so, and it looks like

The NYT says its journalists won't sign the Pentagon's revised press pass policy, saying it threatens to punish them for First-Amendment protected newsgathering (The New York Times Company)
https://www.nytco.com/press/a-statement-fr…

A Statement from The New York Times on the Pentagon’s Press Pass Policy | The New York Times Company
Journalists from The New York Times will not sign the Pentagon’s revised press pass policy, which threatens to punish them for ordinary news gathering protected by the First Amendment.

this looks pretty bad for Phil Ginsburg tbh
https://missionlocal.org/2025/08/phil-ginsburg-parks-alliance-drew-becher-crane-cove-port-of-s-f/

One call could’ve saved S.F. millions. Nobody picked up the phone.
Rec and Park GM Phil Ginsburg knew his nonprofit ally the Parks Alliance was in trouble, and kept quiet. Whose interests was he serving?

10 years on, believe it or not, the Paris Agreement was signed.
This was our very short reaction at the time. Prescient, you might think.
The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.
Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly. | Steady State Manchester https://…

Paris Climate Change Agreement, 2015: the good, the bad and the ugly.
A lot has been written on the Paris international agreement on climate change.  To try and cut through all those words to the essential issues, here is our very brief analytic summary. The good Asp…

Putin blasts Nobel Peace Prize decision, wins thanks from Trump: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/11/putin-blasts-nobel-peace-prize.html

EU Set the Global Standard on Privacy and AI. Now It’s Pulling Back | TechPolicy.Press https://techpolicy.press/eu-set-the-global-standard-on-privacy-and-ai-now-its-pulling-back

EU Set the Global Standard on Privacy and AI. Now It’s Pulling Back | TechPolicy.Press
The draft Digital Omnibus could weaken core data protections and give tech companies more leeway in using European data, reports Ramsha Jahangir.

How South Park's creators found success with a season full of attacks on Trump; Nielsen says viewership over the past four months is more than double 2023 (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/media/south-park-trump.html…

‘South Park’ Takes On Trump and Wins Bigly
“It’s not that we got all political,” said Trey Parker, one of the show’s creators. “It’s that politics became pop culture.”

Sources: Paramount is considering giving Bari Weiss the title of editor-in-chief or co-president of CBS News, as part of a broader deal to buy The Free Press (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/busines

CBS News Weighs Major Role for Bari Weiss as Part of Deal to Buy The Free Press
The talks with Ms. Weiss, a founder of The Free Press, are the strongest sign yet that the new owner of CBS News intends to make major changes.