Ya, I want it even bigger. All commercial claims should be accessible for your own determination. Fastest, biggest, longest, widest, shortest, most liked, doctor recommended, any empirical claim must have the data used and calculations to make the claim available for examination. Data storage is so cheap now. I don't see it as a dent to anyone's profit.
To be clear I'd be very much in favor of scientific studies and their data having to be publicly available.
But on any controversial area, which is most of the areas anyone cares about, there will be 2+ sides of the issue and any vetting body will be compromised to some degree for one of those sides.
That's the rub, isn't it... who watches the watchmen? In times past, journalism at least had the veil of impartiality, but modern journalism is far more of an editorial activist activity than simply answering the 6 W's of a given story.
I'm not sure it was ever actually much better... and it may just be my pessimistic Gen X nature. But I've personally seen too many misrepresentations about too many studies where the body and available data in fact don't match the headlines or the numbers themselves are deceptive in a way that is much less significant than represented.
200% the risk of X... when in sample A of 10000, 1 had X, and in sample b of the same size, 2 had X... while it's a real relative stat, the absolute values are all but meaningless in context.
I'm not religious myself, and I have plenty of concerns about anything faith based mingling with the government, but I don't see how building affordable houses on church property has anything to do with military leaders telling their soldiers they're warriors for God.
I'm trying to follow this but unclear of the root of the problem. Is it beacause building roads in L.A. is inherantly more expensive than elsewhere? I thought one of the selling points of cities was scale: costs are spread over more people. But, it sounds like road building is cheaper per resident in my small city. Sounds more like a corruption problem.
I'm suggesting that this isn't the actual answer. The thread started with the premise that the city doesn't have enough revenue, and that the way to increase that revenue is to bring in more people who pay more tax. Next, bringing in more people requires more housing, so that requires incentives for developers to displace people residing in SFH so that the can replace those with high density housing. There's a big problem: more people require more services beyond fancy curb cuts, like police, fire, water, electricity, schools, hospitals, etc. That cost that is spread also grows proportionally with the number of people, and you can't ignore that.
On the cost of building roads: there are cement and asphalt plants right in LA city proper, and also in weho and inglewood, among others in the county. LA has a price problem, not a cost problem.
There are more specters, too, which are bound to be political fights. For one, when you dig up a road, there are numerous places that will require displacing very large homeless camps. Now, credit where it's due, LA has shown that it is able to do that sometimes, like around Echo Park, which is the junction of several major thoroughfares like glendale blvd and the 101. Still, these are non-trivial projects that take years.
Doing the investigations is a whole industry in itself.
If it's true that security is only as strong as the weakest link, and they grant people like Jared Kushner top security clearance, then it's all theater at this point.
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