So.... daytime downtown parkers who are called as jurors, or need to visit a business or government service, get to pay more so trust fund hipsters can get free parking for their craft beer bashes?
Lovely.
Maybe use some of that extra money to develop a phone-based pay for parking app so users can pay and extend their time from their smartphones?
I can't believe that the press in this country- daily and weekly, legacy and alt- is taking this BS Trump attack on them. This arose from a complaint by a single US paper mill, owned by a Wall Street hedge fund; no other US mill or trade association asked for it. Buffalo's Congressman Brian Higgins was one of many testifying at the International Trade Commission this week about how damaging this is. It's a full frontal assault on the First Amendment- what part of "Congress shall make no law" don't they understand?
" It's for hard-nosed, cold-blooded, pragmatic professional politicians who know how to play the game."
That's not what happened when the Teabaggers took over Congress two years into Obama's presidency. They didn't play the game or follow the rules- they ignored them, then made all new rules. If the next Congress is just Pelosi and Morelle playing the same old game, they will get nowhere.
So let's review our choices:
(a) an old-line party hack Albany insider (need I even say white male?), with a metoo-once-removed problem;
(b) a white woman with high name recognition (former TV reporter) but who can't get an endorsement over the usual hacks;
(c) a black male coming from a long term on city council; and
(d) a black female with the most unique background and highest potential.
Naturally, all the money and all the endorsements are on "a." Even yours, which barely mentioned the metoo problem and justified the endorsement by saying, "This seat's too important to lose! Joe knows how to Get Things Done!" The same pablum that's been getting useless incumbents re-elected until death since I've been alive. They may as well put a "No N-words need apply" sign on the door, because the only Person of Color that matters is the person holding the green:P
Re: “Feedback 1/9”
I'm quite disappointed that your publication isn't addressing the incident of racism in the East End involving an RPO musician who was jailed overnight for the heinous crime of Parking While Black. While similar incidents have named and shamed the white-privileged perpetrators, there's no effort here to name and shame the Downstairs Cabaret impresario as "Parking Lot Pete" or something similar. It adds to the unfortunate stereotype that liberal artsy white guys get a pass (see: Woody Allen, Bernie Sanders, et al).