Disappointing but unsurprising.

I haven’t read Limón’s poetry (I don’t read much poetry at all), but I’ll have to change that. Happy for some Kentucky and Lexington representation in this way.

I went to high school post Columbine, so we could only use mesh or clear backpacks and were required to wear IDs at all times. Even at the time, that felt like security theater. Schools can’t solve this problem with decisions like these–we need to decide as a society to rethink our relationship with guns.

I have long supported Joseph-Beth, but this is giving me ideas for other bookstores to try!

Most of this budget sounds great, but why are we budgeting for 75 more ALPRs when we haven’t even finished the trial of the current ones yet? Not to mention that the trial is unlikely to evaluate ethics, only “effectiveness.”

There are a few yellow flags in this article for me. Quick and efficient sounds good, but are those the most important values in policing? What values do they stand in tension with? It’s great that there are policies against using a ALPR database for personal reasons, but these policies regularly get violated. No, these aren’t videosurveillance cameras, but that doesn’t make them harmless.

Hooray for additional bike infrastructure!

Grumpy about this this morning.

Wish that I’d been paying better attention to this legislation. Libraries are pillars of our communities and ought to retain partisan independence.

Worries about this picking up. General Assembly took steps in a bad direction this session, but they could go further next time.

I bike past this house and its flags every day; seeing them is always a boost. How upsetting that people would want to burn one.

I do not always have praise for the local Republican supermajority, but I’m glad to see this goes beyond Ukraine to provide support for all kinds of refugees. Tentative optimism here.

Textbook example of why it is never enough to say you didn’t mean any harm. This is shameful and gross.

Proud of Lexington for hosting this. Also wondering if I should check the Lexington groups on Gab to see if the local far-right is cranky about it.

Amazon already has too big a footprint here. Don’t feel great about this.

Glad to hear this—and glad my state rep seems to me a voice of reason here.

Yes for more transportation funding, but not if it’s all going to cars.

Why are dress codes so often so gross?

We should all be concerned about this. Describing this as “high tech” in the first line of the story fetishizes surveillance. It’s gross.

Hooray for sports?

Good for these students.

A reminder of local involvement in the Capitol attack.

Important read for folks looking to help.

Heartbroken for Western Kentucky and everywhere else that’s seen destruction.

Wish I had commuted earlier today to see this; when I biked past, there were only KU folks, no protestors. ALSO: “protesters might be abetting murderers by taking up police time” is not a good look.