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Old 04-15-2016, 06:56 PM
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_"A New Map for America"_
"The 50-state model is holding the country back. It needs a new system, built around urban corridors."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/op...r-america.html

Adventurous, confused social justice warriors will get to make even more demands on flyover country.

This after the NYT has a belated epiphany on this same day that cities anywhere are more liberal than suburbs:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/16/us/southern-cities-move-past-states-on-liberal-social-issues.html
Ya think?

But like 'health care,' guns, 'income inequality,' transgender, this is the next issue--the next treat--from NYT.

 
Old 04-15-2016, 07:11 PM
 
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Why does anyone care what they write?
 
Old 04-15-2016, 07:13 PM
 
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the new yorl slime needs to die as an entity, they are essentially irrelevant anyway these days.
 
Old 04-15-2016, 07:46 PM
 
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NYT: a LOT of us like our "flyover country" because of less drama and so on.
 
Old 04-15-2016, 08:05 PM
 
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Why does anyone care what they write?
Because the New York Times publishes think pieces that are well written and interesting. That doesn't mean that you have to agree with them or not.

As for the article in question it is a think piece by a Singaporean researcher fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. It is not a piece written or commissioned by the New York Times editorial board which are the only opinion pieces that are an expression of the New York Times.
 
Old 04-15-2016, 08:14 PM
 
Location: Home is Where You Park It
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It isn't NYT's opinion.

They published it, but it is not their editorial stance.

I know this will come as a shock to some people, but the NYT, like all really good newspapers, gives a forum to a lot of ideas that they find interesting/provocative but don't espouse themselves. That's why I still prefer to get my news from newspapers rather than cable.
 
Old 04-15-2016, 08:16 PM
 
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Because the New York Times publishes think pieces that are well written and interesting. That doesn't mean that you have to agree with them or not.

As for the article in question it is a think piece by a Singaporean researcher fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. It is not a piece written or commissioned by the New York Times editorial board which are the only opinion pieces that are an expression of the New York Times.
I'm wondering how many think an article about how our country should execute our elections by someone from Singapore is interesting.

I'm betting not many.
 
Old 04-15-2016, 08:19 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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It should be done using a random computer algorithm based on population.
 
Old 04-15-2016, 08:20 PM
 
Location: Texas Hill Country
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Because the New York Times publishes think pieces that are well written and interesting. That doesn't mean that you have to agree with them or not.
..........
Well written? Is it?

Looking at that map in the region that concerns me, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balcones_Fault is neither plains nor coastal. One only has to go a few miles east of Austin to realize it's a far different place than a few miles west of Austin.
 
Old 04-15-2016, 08:46 PM
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It should be done using a random computer algorithm based on population.
These are "united states," not randomized tyranny based on population. My state isn't like someone else's for good reason.
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