I love that Pogi went so early at Strada that the US coverage has no time where he isn’t off the front. This was expected but still. #cycling
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I love that Pogi went so early at Strada that the US coverage has no time where he isn’t off the front. This was expected but still. #cycling
"Limits of Property Taxes and Charges: City Revenue Structures After the Great Recession" by Yunji Kim, UAR 55(1), 2019.
I’m on the verge of doing this. Ugh.
My understanding is this was also the opinion of the Sherman tank. Inferior in almost every way to any of the Panzers or Tigers, but they ran forever without maintenance and thousands showed up. The Tiger’s maintenance cycle was a few hundred miles; the Sherman was a few thousand.
I finally have to change the title of figure 2. That says a lot more about the private economy than local govts.
TIL that our transition from land lines to virtual phones (via Teams) was successful. In other news, this is the first time I’ve gotten a real phone call at work in a long, long time.
Is there a differential recovery among local government sectors? Employment index for the local government (excluding education) and local education sectors (2020-01-01 = 100), CES National
Local government employment lags behind private employment in the post-COVID era Employment index for the local government (excluding education) and total private sectors (2020-01-01 = 100), CES National
Neither of these are great for two entirely different reasons.
This makes me feel much better that I decided to bail on these folks when they started to get really creepy about AI. Like not just helping with grammar but offering to write the whole thing I was working on. I’m a writer! I want to do it!
“Synopsis from HB4294, introduced by Republican state Rep. Kyle Moore…
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Increases the amount transferred from the General Revenue Fund to the Local Government Distributive Fund. Effective immediately.”
Friends don’t let friends store data (or, heaven forbid, do any analysis) in Excel.
I appreciate that we’re one act into “Wag the Dog.” Now we just need a faked downed pilot (a psychopathic Woody Harrelson stand in), and we’re cooking on the next two acts.
Given how my university is barreling toward compliance with this (without much plan on how it’ll be implemented), this is a welcome add.
“Flat funding during a time of rising cost is a cut, reducing the rate formula eliminates any natural growth in revenue growth that municipalities rely on to keep pace with inflation,” Chalmers-Currin said.
The show is growing on me. I still like the original better, though.
Best Medicine, a remake of the BBC’s Doc Martin, just had a meta-episode where Martin Clunes (the original Doc Martin) plays the father of current Doc Martin (neé Doc Best, played by Josh Charles). None of that was necessary and only like 40% of the audience will clock it.
Charlie Day Strings Meme.
How I (probably) look explaining local governments to a reporter fairly new to the beat.
I appreciate that macOS 26 created a new apps.app app that shows you all your installed apps that is somehow a worse experience than just pinning the apps folder to the dock.
Almost 100% of what you’re buying when you publish in a journal is reputation and taste (editorial decisions). I don’t see how AI can do any of that. So, you’re left with a MDPI-quality journal.
It creates some really perverse incentives because the aid is not 1:1 with levy reductions.
This is how part of the WI state aid program works. You get more aid if you reduce your levy below a point.
Or, at least I think. I’m not as read into (nor do I know of any) work on middle eastern or eastern cities from that era.
The absolute earliest that could be likely would be late-medieval or very early renaissance (need to read up on my financing of cities in the 13th century). Prior, public funding would have been personal or royal, not institutionalized.
I know about that, but there are specifics that matter. Is it GO only? There are revenue like bonds from the 1600s. There are also bond/loan hybrids from Italian city states in the 16/17th century. Is it city only? The example is a district. It’s messy.
Ideas? I’m not as read into the bond side of the house.
Seemingly, NYC in 1812 (for a GO bond). That seems a bit too late and too US-centric, but I cannot find anything else. www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
This. This. This.
Read the whole thing. It’s great.
iA Writer -> Typora
iterm2 -> Ghostty
Not an indictment of either one. Mostly a personal preference thing or intentionally reducing features so I can focus.
Interesting. I’ve been running the continuous beta for years (without any significant issue, occasionally a plugin will freakout), so I have been insulated from the lack of feature upgrades.
