These are places where people meet, walk, greet friends and talk or just sit and “people watch.” However defined, these are places that include and create and reinforce a sense community.
In states such as Utah, Indiana, Massachusetts, Iowa, and North Carolina, regulators and legislatures are actively encouraging shortened degrees. But thus far there is no evidence of impending pressure in Washington.
Democrats’ dreams of gaining a supermajority in the Legislature have hovered like sugar plums since a Trump 1.0 backlash gained them seven House seats in 2018.
