Poli Sci PhD, former college professor and city councilor. Policy issues: housing and transportation. Footballer for life. #ProRelforUSA
Chicago, IL USA
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East Germany versus West Germany at the 1974 FIFA World Cup at the Volksparkstadion in Hamburg. East Germany won 1-0.
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Chicago is now the center of the progressive housing policy universe.
The Planning Department has released a request for proposals for modern courtyard housing on city-owned land.
This is how a new housing model starts! Begin with a public site and demonstration project, then chart that path toward making courtyard housing normal again across the city.
DPD has released an RFP for modern courtyard buildings on city land! chicago.gov/city/en/sites/dp…
US Men's National Team coach urges @MLS and @USSoocer to implement promotion and relegation. Calls out sports as entertainment, instead of competition. #ProRelforUSA
Great Washington Park history from Robert Loerzel in the Sun-Times. Why is the island in Washington Park behind a locked gate? chicago.suntimes.com/chicago…
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I could hardly believe it when so many community powers combined to tear down an L line, instead of USING it for revitalizing 63rd—especially since by then, urban planners should have learned their lesson on the importance of mass transit lines. Today, that line would deliver tourists right to the Obama Center.
Salt Lake City's zoning reform bearing fruit. These beauties couldn't have been built a year ago in the RMF-35 zone!
For-sale cottage development in Glendale moves closer to construction buildingsaltlake.com/for-sal…
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Soon, America’s obsolete system of states will be constitutionally re-organized into regions whose capitols will be the cities with IMAX 70mm theatres.
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The Chicago Torture Justice Memorial broke ground in Washington Park, with Mayor Johnson and Commissioner Boatright joining the project team, victims and their supporters. Designed to heal and educate, the $4.9M project is rising on four former City lots near 55th and King.
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USMNT players need to feel the wrath of the media and fans after this pathetic performance. Unworthy of a World Cup stage.
This is not the time for moral victories. This is not the time for kumbaya. This is not the time to celebrate how this team brought people together.
If you applaud this mediocrity, you only condone mediocrity. Call them out, from the president of the federation to the goalkeeper. And EVERYONE in this team.
Especially the poster boy of this group: Christian Pulisic. He never asked to be the face of it all so why are we making him be that? He doesn’t lead. It doesn’t look like he wants to. And then chronically injured. You can’t be Captain America if you can’t carry the weight of the shield.
And he’s not the only one, by the way. You can point to a lot of the guys yesterday who weren’t up to the task. Chose whoever. Pulisic just happened to be the face of it all.
Every World Cup elimination we sit with our head in our hands asking questions about pay-to-play, what if our best athletes, did we take the right players, when are we going to make it?
This is the main reason we’re being held back. It’s nothing you don’t know:
Football in the US is institutionalized and corporatized. It’s a business first and then comes soccer. ACROSS the board. From US Soccer who prices out fans for ugly friendlies. To MLS’s closed system that rewards mediocrity. To clubs and academies that make it difficult for families to have their kids play soccer.
It’s all wrong. It was great in 1994 when we needed something to get up and running. But now we’re on the wrong trajectory. And our complacency will never redirect course.
Be disappointed, be angry. Call them out. Don’t reward this. You shouldn’t be feeling anything else. If not, we’ll never progress.
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Remember: Americans don’t like soccer. MLS has done us a huge favor by simply allowing it to exist. It has to be limited in a closed, anticompetitive and limited cartel. That’s the only way we can handle it.
Keep saying all that stuff to yourself over and over in order to make it seem true.
#ProRelForUSA
The USA-Belgium Round of 16 match on Monday in Seattle currently has an average ticket purchase price of $2,587.
That makes it the most expensive event ever at Lumen Field.
(Ticket data via @TickPick)
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Nothing better than wandering out far far beyond civilization and finding a USGS corner monument. The USGS is one of our most amazing achievements. The accuracy of our mapping systems, in the days before computers is actually insane and enabled out way of life.
Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸🦅
Since 1879, we’ve mapped the mountains, rivers, and valleys across our nation, helping Americans explore, protect, and understand the land we call home.
📸1: USGS topographic mapping field camp in the early 1900s.
📸2: Topographer working with a tripod, planetable, and alidade at Kahekili Leap, on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, circa 1928.
📸3: Topographer mapping the north half of the Lovelock 1-degree quadrangle in a desert area near Jungo, Nevada, circa 1931.
📸4: A level crew running a line from Mojave, California to Keeler, California via the state road, preparing the way for topographers to follow. Circa 1905.
Credit: USGS
It’s currently raining before the Uruguay-España game in Guadalajara. But given my experience at 2 previous games here - the stadium may not fill up. Pinche scalpers, I hope I’m wrong @VamosMIB @TheAthleticFC
Class war from the Chicago Park District. More surveillance, higher fees, smartphone required. At Oakwood Beach, near south side, the parking lot is dead. I'm a bike guy and I feel bad for all the "loiterers" who can't park and hang out here anymore.
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Another analysis of MLS's "stagnation" with no mention of the closed system that makes it boring. Does this writer know that USSF is given the power by FIFA to change this? #prorelforusa
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The closed system IS the problem. And FIFA gives USSF the power to change it. LETS DO THIS @ussoccer #prorelforusa
10 years ago today in American professional soccer:
Things most people wouldn't believe. Especially most American soccer people.
The game isn't the problem.
The system is.
#prorelforusa
No mention of the lack of pro-rel or a real US soccer pyramid in this article. Shows how far we have to go to become part of the conversation #prorelforusa theguardian.com/football/202…
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It’s not complicated. Open the system and let MLS either sell their teams out of closed league captivity, continue to play as a circus chain of outlets, or become a the real estate company they already are.
#ProRelForUSA
With the 'richest game in football' at Wembley tomorrow - the question of if/when the USA will get pro-rel returns to mind. Despite what some may suggest - its complicated. thesoccerbusiness.com/pro-re…
