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I should point out that the urban planning definition of a "15 minute city" is 15 minutes by foot, bike, and public transit. That's quite a bigger bubble than on foot alone, and virtually *all* small towns and minor cities are innately 15-minute. It only becomes a matter of urban planning to...

The concept of a 15 minute city isn't that you're not allowed to travel outside of that radius, it's that the city planning should be done such that residents can accomplish all of their everyday errands and things within a 15-minute walk of their home. It's basically just a less vague...

Being against the freedom to travel freely between states is literally as un-American as it gets. For shame!

The rules vary from state to state -- some states require that all elections workers be U.S. citizens, others (including California) allow "United States citizen or legal permanent resident".

Over 98% of American childbirths occur in hospitals, but the United States is so much bigger that the remaining 2% is still over 60,000 childbirths per year. Safe haven laws aren't really about large numbers of abandonments, but on providing a safe option for the small number of cases that would...

IANAL and the legal specifics vary from state to state, but it is a consistent rule of law throughout the United States that parental abandonment is in fact a crime outside of specific legal exemptions. Indeed, safe havens were heavily debated as dangerously undermining the parental abandonment...

It is illegal outside of state laws specifically carving out a conditional exemption for baby boxes (also known as safe haven laws).

Baby boxes are emergency drop-off locations. The idea is to provide a widely known about "no questions asked" location as a safe alternative to abandonment -- it's preferable to get proper surrender/adoption paperwork done, and they will ask the person to complete paperwork if possible, but the...

The other universally hateable thing about McConnell is that he's a smug, slimy SOB who pretends to be incredibly principled while stabbing everyone in the back. He'll make vague, high-minded-sounding references as a justification for doing something, then make similar references to the exact...

I think hating Mitch can be a point of unity for the left and right. . .

The Trump Administration was just as unwilling to intervene in Mexico.

Google-fu says the longest-serving governor in Montana history was Joseph Toole, who served eleven years in office from 1889 to 1993 and then 1901 to 1908. In any case, only one other governor in Montana history was elected three times even before the term limit law was enacted (and he resigned...

No, I don't know what element is sourced from the African desert. I'm saying there are multiple steps in the process where there's that kind of one-highly-specific-source dependency, and it's not because that's the sole source in the world and we're all screwed forever without it, but because...

Note that the whole "one place in the world" thing in manufacturing supply chains almost always means "this is the purest known natural deposit of this stuff in the world, and that makes it exponentially more affordable than any other deposit since it requires that much less chemical refining."...

Semiconductor fabs are one of those areas where you can literally build a multimillion dollar, state of the art chip factory one year and have it be obsolete within the next two to three years. The advancement in high performance CPU and GPUs is that totally dependent on new fabrication methods...

Because they're not Americans. Not our circus, as the saying goes.

It depends on whether or not the county actually has discretionary authority to withhold certification. Not if it's someone who has no legal discretionary authority to do so. Then it's literally, "You are required to do your job in the manner dictated by law. Even if you think the election...

If the House Republicans actually do that, I will applaud them. However, I'm not convinced they actually will given that pork-stuffed omnibus bills are a staple tactic for both mainstream political parties. Even precious Bernie Sanders voted to keep the pork flowing despite all of his whining...

As I understand it, that particular matter arose because it was in one of the states where primary balloting is staffed on a per party basis; they can’t legally take Republican primary ballots unless they have a Republican election judge at the polling place.

Ha ha. I would point out that California has had polling places in churches for many, many years without anyone but a few crazy strawmen complaining about it. The polling place for the suburb where I grew up was in one of the smaller local churches, no one had a problem with it. Indeed, the...