Fellow Travellers (and travelling on the taxpayers' dime)

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Th irony of Murphy sharing the stage with the samenclown who sat idly by while Somalians looted Minnesota is delicious

Repugnant Liar Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Bag) Went Overseas to Blast Trump's 'Totalitarian Takeover' and ‘corruption’.

Walz rips Trump and Vance in Europe, says 'feeble-minded, trigger-happy president' has no exit plan for Iran

Minnesota Gov Tim Walz spoke at the inaugural Global Progressive Mobilization conference in Barcelona

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) virtually addressed the attendees in pre-recorded videos.

So much for No Kings Day in Philly

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Unhinged Philly Mayor Asks Uber and Lyft How Dare They Tell Her How to Tax Them

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker has proposed a new $1-per-ride tax on Uber and Lyft, with the money marked to go toward the Philadelphia school district. Not surprisingly, the rideshare companies, as well as many residents, are against the tax. Parker held a press conference where she scolded Uber and Lyft for trying to tell her who to tax.

To be fair, the mayor is understandably concerned about the rampant illiteracy plaguing her city.

And maybe not so funny after all she is, after all, supposed to be running a city of 6,000,000 souls, including her fellow illiterates.

Maybe they can pull them along Governor Noisome's High Speed Rail to Nowhere using an alternative power source?

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back to horse and bussy days

The Electric Bus Bust Mayhem Continues

A lengthy article detailing the failure of electric school buses and then moving on to municipalities that bought their own; same story, writ large. This tiny excerpt pretty much sums up the situation:

Ninety-six million dollars’ worth of electric buses sit idle across South Florida, some parked in a landfill, others lined up at the Homestead Air Reserve Base.

...Across South Florida, dozens of electric buses purchased with tens of millions of taxpayer dollars remain parked and out of service, more than a year after they were pulled from the road.

Right now, no one knows exactly what comes next.

Ever Green:

This might be a record price for a 1960's split-level in NoPo but if it is, it probably won’t be for long

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37 Mary Lane was purchased back in June 2024 for $960,000 in a bidding war that started at $799,000. The builder blew it out from 1,650 sq. ft. to 3,176 sq. ft., gut renovated it while he was at it, and has put it for sale today at $3.3 million.

What low-moderate housing advocates fail to understand, or perhaps they do, is that you can’t build inexpensive housing on incredibly expensive land unless you go up several stories and divide that cost between, say 20 apartments. Those will come, if Connecticut voters continue to elect the people they’ve been sending to Hartford the past few decades, and my guess is that they will: greed and envy are eternal.

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Another moderate-income house has come on the market; maybe this will finally satisfy the Hartford progressives

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The owner of 159 Lake Avenue paid $1.490 million for it in July 2024, blew it out from 1,744 sq. ft. to 4,780, and has returned it to the market for $5.475 million. Busy, noisy lower Lake Avenue wouldn’t be my choice of where to live in Greenwich, but it will probably seem positively bucolic to a transplant from Bushwick, and the one -hour commute back to the city will be an improvement over the 7 mile, 1+ hour subway trip from Bushwick Avenue.

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I'm with the Gov on this one; why should her constituents pay for out-of-staters to come watch a foreign, imitative and inferior form of genuine football?

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Euro-weenies fake injuries during their fake game — leave ‘em across the atlantic

NJ Transit officially announces exorbitant $150 round-trip train tickets to World Cup games

NJ Transit officials formally announced its sky-high $150 round-trip ticket prices for trains headed to FIFA World Cup games at the Meadowlands, confirming controversial reports from earlier this week.

To make matters worse, Kris Kolluri, president of the Garden State’s largest transit network, also told reporters Friday that just 40,000 tickets will be made available, and once they’re gone, remaining rail-riding soccer fans will be out of luck.

He also said two shuttle buses would be available to take passengers to New York-New Jersey Stadium from Port Authority and Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine in Nutley at a teeth-clenching cost of $80 a pop.

The staggering price tag, a more than 1,000% increase over the usual $12.90 roundtrip fare for the 18-mile journey, was first reported by The Athletic, citing an inside source.

NJ Gov. Mikie Sherrill has been at loggerheads with FIFA over the transit system’s plan to jack up the price of a train ticket from Penn Station to the eight matches taking place at the Meadowlands.

“We are not going to be paying for moving the people who are viewing the World Cup on the back of New Jersey taxpayers and New Jersey commuters,” Sherrill told reporters, hitting out at the state’s agreement with FIFA that left the NJT on the hook for the estimated $48 million cost of shuttling fans to the stadium.

“We have inherited an agreement in which FIFA doesn’t contribute a single dollar toward transportation for the World Cup. And while NJ Transit is left with a $48 million bill to safely transport 40,000 fans from the stadium to wherever they’re headed, FIFA is generating $11 billion from this World Cup,” Sherrill posted on X.

“I won’t stick N.J. commuters with that tab for years to come, that’s not fair,” she added. “FIFA should pay for the rides, but if they don’t, I’m not going to let N.J. commuters be taken for one.”

The competition organizer countered Sherill’s attack by denying responsibility for the planned price-hike, and citing an agreement signed with host cities in 2018 that free transportation would be provided.

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The World Cup could also be a nightmare for Jersey-bound commuters trying to get home on the six game days when a match is being held during the evening rush.

On game nights, (June 13, June 16, June 22, June 25, June 27, June 30, July 5 and July 19), only tournament ticket holders will be able to access the NJT portion of Penn Station for the four hours leading up to kick off.

Change of plans? Because as a spec project , this doesn't make much sense.

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10 Maple Drive, Old Greenwich, purchased for $999,111 in June 2025, was put back on the market @ $1.2 million earlier this month and is reported as under contract today, 10 days later. The owners didn’t do a whole lot of work on the house, but they did redo kitchen and baths, a little, and performed some painting, but after conveyance taxes and commissions, they’ll be lucky to break even. Unless, of course, the buyers are paying much more than the asking price — not impossible in this market — in which case ….

The house was an estate sale for a Mrs. Eileen Burke, who died last year aged 99, an accomplishment in itself, and the listing last year cautioned that it was being “sold as is, where is”. I get the “as is” — that’s standard for estate sales, where the owner is unavailable to opine on hidden defects and necessary repairs, but “as is”? Did they expect buyers to demand that it be relocated to, say, Maple Avenue? In the event, the disclaimer proved unnecessary, and the house remains where it was.

the driveway remains “as was”