(Opinion) It looks likely that CT Transit will extend free bus service for another six months. It looks like a new luxury hotel will generate all its own energy, from the sun.
How long will all that last?
Meanwhile, real estate investors are racking up the green — as in dollar bills — by facelessly booting rent-paying tenants and benefitting from seven-figure tax under-appraisals from the city. Is it time for New Haven to stop playing Monopoly and retrieve Bertell Ollman’s board game instead?
Those questions, prompted by the latest headlines, are explored in the latest edition of the New Haven Independent’s weekly vlog news summary, brought direct from our assignment desk/corporate cafeteria — er, compost heap. Click on the video at the top of the story to watch it.
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[A} new luxury hotel will generate all its own energy, from the sun.
How long will all that last?
Not more than about 4 billion years, and which time the sun will expand and consume the earth as it starts running out of fuel. As Jeff Bezos say, we need a long term plan to find another class M planet.
As for board games, my family got "Smog" for Christmas, 1970. The trick was to put your industry near your neighboring town so the smoke would blow away from your city and into his. One could be doing well, and then the wind would shift .... https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3709/smog