US Democracy is way too local. The only local officials that should be elected are counselors and mayors. That's it. Not sheriffs, school boards, planning commissioners, or judges.
@archliberal I am generally okay with charter schools.
I personally think all school policy and districts should be centralized to the federal government in the United States. I think it would far easier to improve the public schools in the United States if the federal government was setting the policy. It would also make it easier to regulate private and charter schools.
Assuming that the constitutional amendment in NH to enshrine the FITN law passes, I wonder how this Supreme Court will go when the inevitable case reaches them. I guess their options are to force the Democrats to let state set their elections whenever they want with no penalty, or to tell Granite Staters that if they really wanted their votes to count they shouldn't have passed that amendment. Wildcard ruling would be to ban state-run elections for private organizations entirely.
One of the local papers just put out a notice about a "community meeting" about a 9 unit condo building a landowner wants to build. It would be a cute corner building at a major intersection a half kilometer from a rapid transit station and with 15 minute bus service. The landowner wants there to be 23 parking spaces, and it'll still have to go through ZBA for some reason (likely setbacks) :withered_wojak:
@timesandseasons why would you have parking spaces more than 2.5 times the amount of units? Just have 11 at most. The extra two for just the workers in the office.
Every time I see an org chart for my company I'm always amazed at the role segregation by gender. Almost all managers are women and almost all workers are men.
Can you imagine being Jon Ossoff? Lose a highly competitive special House election and then come around to winning a Senate seat instead? His ego must have been more than repaired. It must be soaring now.