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The Texas Bond Review Board collects and reports all the school bond referenda if you are interested in diving into the data (data.brb.texas.gov)

This might be useful to contextualize its impact: munifinance.uchicago.edu/congressional/

Data on municipal bonds by Congressional District just released by @justin-marlowe.bsky.social and the Center for Municipal Finance. munifinance.uchicago.edu/congressional/

I kind of want to say drinking water provision…

Heading to SPSA in beautiful San Juan. Let me know if there are any particularly interesting panels to check out

The zoom integration and automatically creating links when the meeting is set was a nice feature

It was fine for one-on-ones, but I canceled mine. My biggest complaint is that to set any thing up with a committee either everyone needs a paid “seat” or I have to set it up with Calendly and then invite the rest of the committee via outlook or google calendar anyway

Every semester I end up going on a rant in my budgeting class about how using the debt ceiling and government shut downs are the worst possible ways to deal with deficits and government spending. I see now that I need to rant louder.

Water Policy = Health Policy

Also, the more polluted our ground water becomes the more expensive it is to clean. This increases the price of water.

The golden age of property tax assessment research is upon us. A new paper finds that assessors smooth property tax revenue by reassessing less aggressively during property value downturns. Also, they under-assess their own homes! www.nber.org/system/files...

Thanks to the Water and Health Advisory Council and the University of Wisconsin for putting together a workshop on the next 50 years of safe drinking water! It’s been fun talking about water financing issues

Public service is a noble calling, but we can't use that as cover for not taking care of public servants

My fellow Bush School professor, Eric Lewis, is on this paper too. They do some cool stuff with oil and gas drilling contracts. Check it out!

I did this with a masters level economic development class with mixed results. I’d love to see tips on teaching this skill if anyone has examples

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We're up early the morning after Thanksgiving to talk about climate change accounting, reporting, and accountability in government and non-profit organizations.

Thanks to the University of Essex for hosting!

Thanks! I may just break down and try to make one at some point

Oh no, Elon is tweeting about things I actually write about. I hoped this day would never come

And not to try and frame childcare (and elder care) as infrastructure like they did in 2020-2021. It did not work

Here is a fun one. The city of Todd Mission is home to the Texas Rennassance Festival, the largest ren fest in the county, and they don't have a property tax: toddmissiontx.gov/wp-content/u...

Not just urban local governments. Texas should be cautionary tale here of high property taxes and lots of sales taxes

I'm still figuring it out over here, but has anyone made one of those starter packs for people doing cool water policy /management /finance stuff?

That cancelled TV show you'll never stop thinking about

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea you aren’t working on but keep thinking about

1) Does fiscal health affect water utility response to drought?
2) Why climate financial risks priced in some industries but not all?

It's not crazy to want to think serious about the federal debt, but it is crazy to think we can balance the budget on the backs of cutting non-defense discretionary spending and firing a bunch of federal bureaucrats

This means we have to talk about the elephant in the room, which is mandatory spending. The big ones are Social Security and Medicare. I haven't seen specific proposals on what they want to cut here other than "trim the fact," so I guess we'll wait and see

Trump and Co. have aimed at departments like education, energy, housing, etc. These are all in the non-defense discretionary spending category, about $917 billion or 15% of total federal spending. Even if we cut everything from this category we wouldn't balance the budget

As any first-year should be able to explain, there are two types of outlays: Mandatory spending for our entitlement programs and Discretionary spending for agencies and programs that go through the federal appropriations budget process. Mandatory spending makes up 2/3 of all federal spending.

Elon and company want to cut spending so let's look at outlays (2023 numbers here from the CBO):