When an indifferent student becomes a serious teacher:

I know you. I see you from where I’m standing, at the front of the classroom. You think I don’t know when you’re checking your phone, or you’re zoning out into space, but I do. I didn’t have a phone to check during college (back in the dark ages, when mastodons walked the earth), but …

If you’ve nothing better to do…

…here’s a recording of yesterday’s WNPR’s “Where We Live” about zoning and housing. I was on that show, but I wasn’t the smartest person there. And here’s a recent copy of Hartford’s draft zoning regulations, all 260 pages of them.

If you’ve nothing better to do…

…I’m on “Where We Live” on WNPR at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, talking about how zoning can serve (and often does, in Connecticut) as the last legalized bastion of racism and classism. The show will also explore a recent study from Partnership for Strong Communities, which you can read here.

Zoning: One of the last bastions for codified racism/classism

I wrote this for WNPR, and thank you for reading it.