MTA Customer Service is getting more inconvenient, worse in waiting and less friendly.

Before COVID, token booth clerks could take cash purchases, transfer card values, and be of service helping straphangers. My mother got a new MTA Reduced-Fare MetroCard. The expiring one has money in it, so I asked my token booth clerk to help. No luck. I could mail it in for a refund or visit a … Read more

“The Constitution does not prohibit legislatures from enacting stupid laws.”

Quote from Chief Justice John Paul Stevens recalling remark from Justice Thurgood Marshall in the New York State Board of Elections, et. al., PETITIONERS v. Margarita Lopez Torres et al. 552 U.S. (2008) case. 15 years later, stupid laws in nominating candidates for open seats in the Supreme Court continues.