Leafblower Menace
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Back in the fall of 2015, in the midst of travels around the country in which my wife, Deb, and…
As I mentioned yesterday in another note on Erie, Pennsylvania, I’ll try to send out some reports on still-functional…
I’ve been lying low in public on this front, while a lot of activity has been going on backstage. …
We’ve had a lot of development on the scientific, public-health, technology, and local-government front since the previous reports in this…
The ongoing theme in this thread involves “hastening the inevitable.” That is, speeding the transition from the very noisy, extremely…
Last week the local NPR station, WAMU, ran an interesting report by Matthew Schwartz about the ongoing effort to outlaw…
Two updates on local coverage of the initiative I’ve been describing in the past few months: the D.C. effort to…
As a reminder, the updates in this thread are part of an unfolding real-time chronicle of community efforts in D.C.…
I’ll begin my emergence from a long bout of print-magazine writing by mentioning an article by Lawrence Richards, in…
In this space I’ve been reporting developments in local D.C. citizen-action efforts to phase out the super-polluting, uniquely noisy leaf…
On Wednesday night, as reported here, our local Advisory Neighborhood Commission in Washington voted 8-1 to support a shift…
Two very different accounts of the neighborhood dynamics of modern community living, related to the community campaign being chronicled in…
This is part of the ongoing chronicle of a minor-seeming but conceptually significant effort in local community action. The conceptual…
This evening the local Advisory Neighborhood Commission for our part of D.C. voted 8-1 to endorse the proposals from our…
In response to the item immediately below, which kicked off this Thread, I’ve gotten reports from different corners of…
Over the past two years, my wife Deb and I have been increasingly impressed by the importance, vitality, difficulty,…
Yeah, here at The Atlantic we’ve got our 158-year-long tradition, our Civil War reportage by Nathaniel Hawthorne, our up-to-the-minute…
First, he invents the leafblower. Then he hires crews to blow things all around his back yard in Hell, at…
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