Nicole Flatow
Editor at Bloomberg CityLab.
Stories and justice for all.
Views are my own.
- Happy DC bike to work day! A plug from an avid parent bikeshare user: Rather than haul my kids on my own bike, I find it convenient to walk or scoot them to school and then hop on a bikeshare from there. Plus, you have the flexibility to take another mode of transit later if weather betrays you.
- Reposted by Nicole FlatowAs Coastline Erodes, One California City Considers ‘Retreat Now’ My debut for @bloomberg.com's CityLab took me to Carlsbad near San Diego, where city officials are looking at ways to preserve an iconic highway and its beloved beaches, before it's too late www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
- When Route 66 tourism dried up for Estancia, New Mexico, the town found an economic savior in CoreCivic, the private prison company. Like many prison towns, Estancia is now an ICE town. Read the terrific story on what that means in 2025.
- Reposted by Nicole FlatowHAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
- Reposted by Nicole FlatowBaltimore's fledgling answer to the decline of independent American journalism -- the online non-profit daily known as the Baltimore Banner -- has just been awarded its first Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the city's overdose crisis. Subscribe now. Great cities have great metro dailies.
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- So over-the-moon ecstatic for this award, which could not go to a lovelier or more thoughtful person than @langealexandra.bsky.social Tremendous credit to @kristoncapps.bsky.social for imagining this series and being Alexandra’s partner from start to finish.
- My heart is still beating so fast. Thank you @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social Thank you @bloomberg.com and especially the CityLab team @kristoncapps.bsky.social @nicflatow.bsky.social and David Dudley Stories here! www.bloomberg.com/features/des...
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- Reposted by Nicole FlatowHeartbreaking piece by @alexsammon.bsky.social from inside the ICE facility where Mahmoud Khalil remains illegally imprisoned for his free speech—on the day when Khalil first saw a photo his newborn son. slate.com/news-and-pol...
- Conclusion: Stay on the ground and use a flight simulator instead. That's VR I can get behind. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Holy cow! The below story is wild. But I particularly enjoy the accompanying nerdier newsletter take. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
- Clean air, waters and land in the US come in part from ridiculously successful laws starting in the early 70s. But there's a new blind spot: pollution that originates above the skies. 🧵 🎁🔗: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
- Reposted by Nicole FlatowEvery year us transit reporters write stories about the "fiscal cliff" facing US transit agencies. But this is different. Major systems from San Francisco to Philly are in the hole by billions of dollars with no obvious solution in sight. Without a fix, service won't just be cut. It'll be gutted.
- The urbanist car bro is the sign we need that there's hope for the rest of us www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
- Earth Day??? "White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some environmental nonprofits of their tax-exempt status, setting up a possible Earth Day strike" www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Nicole FlatowNEW Businessweek feature: The US gives permission to pay people with disabilities below minimum wage. Biden tried to end program. Employers urging Trump preserve it say they've gotten private signals he will. Based on 1000s of pages of records & 150 interviews: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
- Reposted by Nicole FlatowNew from me: DOGE just put the entire staff on leave at the federal agency that coordinates US homelessness response. The agency's new leader is the same DOGE software engineer who now serves as the director of the US Institute for Peace: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Nicole FlatowIt's wild when you think about it: D.C. had a balanced budget, the House went ahead and unbalanced it to the tune of $1.1 billion, the Senate fixed it, the House sat on the fix, and now D.C. may have to make cuts to programs and staff to address a problem not of its own making.
- A reminder that this slashing of a major city's budget does not actually save the federal government money. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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- Reposted by Nicole Flatow“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”
- Of the 238 migrants that Trump officials accused of being “the worst of the worst" when they were deported to El Salvador, about 90% had no US criminal record www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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- Reversing an open meetings law: A consequence of abundance agenda vibes?
- Reposted by Nicole FlatowEveryone is rightly excited about the Wisconsin race, but don't sleep on what happened at the Naperville (Illinois) City Council. The fate of a giant, polluting coal plant was on the line. An anti-coal majority was elected & the plant will shut down on schedule! 🎉 www.dailyherald.com/20250401/loc...
- Reposted by Nicole FlatowPaul Schramm led CDC's climate health program up until yesterday. That's when his entire team got axed as part of agency-wide layoffs. I spoke with Schramm about the layoffs, the work his climate health team did, and what happens now @bloomberg.com (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Look at these numbers for Washington County. 70%! x.com/ashreichert2...
- One incredible thing Trump and Musk achieved: Getting people to turn out for a state judicial election www.startribune.com/democratic-b...
- One incredible thing Trump and Musk achieved: Getting people to turn out for a state judicial election www.startribune.com/democratic-b...
- Local govs are recruiting fired federal workers to tackle staff shortages. It's a "small glass of lemonade out of some very gigantic lemons." from @patrickcsisson.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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- Reposted by Nicole FlatowMaybe targeting John Roberts’s law school classmates is a bad idea? www.vox.com/scotus/40627...
- Given the surge in shipping traffic and ever-larger ships, it turns out last year's Baltimore bridge collapse was much more likely to happen than we thought, @linpoonsays.bsky.social reports www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Most disconcerting thing in this @davidzipper.bsky.social piece: As of last year, none of the Big Three (General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis) produce a single station wagon or non-luxury sedan for the American market. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- When it comes to Trump, people are thinking: "If he can run, I can run, right?" www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
- When you cut federal funding out of an affordable housing deal, everything else is at risk too, including asbestos abatement. Great look at real-world consequences from @kristoncapps.bsky.social and @sarahholder.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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- Reposted by Nicole FlatowNY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”
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- 2017 NYC, anybody? www.bloomberg.com/news/article... www.politico.com/states/new-y...
