Housing commissioner looks back with regret:

“In our view, it’s long overdue,” Marisa Novara said of the ordinance. “Coach houses never should have been banned in 1957. This is a pretty archaic way of thinking about how we create units for people with a range of incomes across the city.”

She emphasized the ordinance enables ADUs [Additional Dwelling Units] but doesn’t force them on blocks where they aren’t wanted. “Where this makes sense for people, they can make use of it, and where it doesn’t, they won’t. But at least we are allowing that option,” she said.

With that welcome pro-choice option in a zoning decision.

via Affordable housing: Coach houses, ‘granny flats’ part of Mayor Lightfoot’s housing solution – Chicago Sun-Times

He should use the powers given to his office by the constitution. And will if necessary because he has gumption!

via Trump “strongly considering” a “Full Pardon” of Michael Flynn

Has he ever even been back there?

While the Vatican has gotten involved in Italian politics (primarily to combat the outspoken populist right-wing star Matteo Salvini), the pope has been a virtual non-factor in Argentina’s heated abortion debate. That’s saying something since he once served as cardinal archbishop of Buenos Aires.

via The Catholic Thing

From bad some good sometimes comes, in this case a taste of homeschooling that gives a parent or two an idea.

Someone said they are sustainable for viruses.

The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those “sustainable” shopping bags that politicians and environmentalists have been so eager to impose on the public. These reusable tote bags can sustain the COVID-19 and flu viruses—and spread the viruses throughout the store.

This can’t be. The best and the brightest recommended this.

Ecclesiastical disobedience.

ROME – Just a day after Cardinal Angelo De Donatis announced the unprecedented decision to close all the churches in the Diocese of Rome to stop the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19, Papal Almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski has done exactly the opposite: The Polish cardinal opened his titular church, Santa Maria Immacolata in Rome’s Esquiline neighborhood.

“It is the act of disobedience, yes, I myself put the Blessed Sacrament out and opened my church,” Krajewski told Crux.

“It did not happen under fascism, it did not happen under the Russian or Soviet rule in Poland – the churches were not closed,” he said, adding that “this is an act that should bring courage to other priests.”

It worked:

Later in the day the Rome diocese rolled back its order to close churches.

 

Trump took it two years ago, aced it. So what’s the problem?

As if one needs to ask.

You want a problem, however? Why did Forbes ax the piece?

My rule is that when you hire for any reason other than competence, you are asking for trouble.

Said the voter ought to “step outside” to settle the issue.

As “Joe Biden” and “senility” become twins in voters’ minds, like macaroni and cheese, Biden got into a verbal brawl with a Michigan autoworker, telling the younger man he was “full of s—” and threatening to “go outside” and settle their differences on the Second Amendment.

Nothing to see here: Dem congresswoman says he was just having “a human moment.”

Telling worried handler to “shush,” Biden took his humanity further and called the man “a horse’s ass.”

Sharpening his debating skills.

Spirited exchange, end of campaign vs. incivility, because the main Dem said it, so what?

via John Kass Column: Trump wasn’t the first to wonder about #BidensCognitiveDecline – Chicago Tribune