Backtalk: "It’s clear who runs the city, and it’s not the council."

Backtalk: "It’s clear who runs the city, and it’s not the council."

Earlier this month, Justin Laidlaw and Chloe Courtney Bohl wrote about a conversation between Raleigh mayor Janet Cowell, Durham mayor Leonardo Williams, and Derek Thompson, the co-author, with Ezra Klein, of a new book called Abundance, about how bureaucracy, especially in blue cities, has stymied progress on things like housing and transit. Readers shared their thoughts:From Instagram user le_dreyer:“Abundance” is simply the latest neoliberal …