In some cities you do not have much of a choice. Down here in South Florida older areas have HOA-free neighborhoods, but even some of those have now walled themselves off and charges a common charge for sidewalk landscaping and security (they literally put guard booths at the 2 or 3 streets that provide access to the…

Down south HOA replaces the role of many zoning boards and city/state regulations in the name of “small government”.

I hate HOAs, but you’re right. There’s a house down the road from me that looks like a rat infested dump. They keep storm shutters and Christmas lights on the garage year round. It’s overgrown and there are tarp covered cars that never move, and that’s just the front yard. The house next door to them has sat vacant…

The City of Boston (and most of the North East US) has very restrictive zoning laws, which is basically a massive HOA.

Isn’t this literally what the Fantastic Beast movies are? The first one was pure tripe and the next one has Johnny Depp playing Wizard Hitler so I’m not holding my breath on it being much better.

As a progressive and a general supporter of unions, all I can say is...this is a total disgrace. Not every union is this shitty, and I’d maybe change your language a little. I don’t think it’s ‘reaming.’ I think they’re just lazy, inept people who take the easiest options. I keep a rule about government, all forms: if…

I would recommend looking into the DC Metro prior to making such a bold statement.

Not a New Yorker by any stretch, but I am familiar with the MTA system and mass transit systems in other major cities around the world (SF, Boston, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Istanbul, others).

The fact that the MTA is run by the mob is like the worst-kept secret in NYC, haha.

Strangely enough there are unions in Europe and other U.S. cities too. They just aren’t as corrupt.

:P

Where Mr. Moerdler gets it wrong is that when you have a preferred vendor you still need to show they’re within a reasonable margin of competitors AND justification as to why they were chosen instead of a competing lower bid.

West Coast = Best Coast

Pornhub. Come for the award winning broadway musicals. Stay for the double penetration, ass fisting, incestual bukakke.

It always irks me when film critics complain that an adaptation of a play or musical is “stagebound” or not “cinematic” enough. It’s going to be the only way some of us get to see them.

I’m fine with Vin Diesel. He stays in his lane.

I found this out long after I’d worked for years in a series of hourly wage jobs that all had language written in their employee handbooks that said revealing your pay rate was cause for immediate dismissal. Some as recently as the mid-00’s. This is one of many reasons we need a retail worker’s union, most employees…

Not sure what you’re field is, but in some, the young hires are starting much higher than the seasoned vets. Your plan could backifre.

That is already illegal. No company can legally fire you for talking about your salary with other employees. It’s part of your right to discuss working conditions.

That’s illegal if you’re in the US. Look up the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (NLRA). There are some even stronger statutes at the state level, so check your state as well.