Alex Pearlstein

Looks like you could also do a pretty interesting astrological analysis of successful coaches and nail down a prototype.

Former BLS commissioner Bill Beach says the agency has lost 25% of its staff since January. 40% of leadership positions are vacant. And DOL leadership “does not seem to support the Bureau.”
#ASSA2026 #EconSky

Pro-rel for the worst record. Make the D-league teams independent again.

Republican push to make U.S. census surveys voluntary alarms statisticians Pending bills targeting decennial census and American Community Survey would make results less reliable

Republican spending plan for Census Bureau could shrink response rate on decennial census to 28% www.science.org/content/arti...

China’s new scientist visa is a ‘serious bid’ for the world’s top talent The country is easing migration for young researchers to boost its competitiveness in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and new materials.

China is easing migration for young researchers to boost its competitiveness in AI, robotics and new materials

go.nature.com/4p4bS31

Canada’s new budget aims to lure U.S. researchers to relocate Spending plan also calls for smaller research spending cut than feared

Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...

ESPN changed up the format of the NBA 🏀 boxscores and it's screwing up my brain.

Change for the sake of change. Boo.

Thick Rich And Delicious

#GBV love fest alert.

Today, on Robert Pollard's 68th bday, Guided By Voices released their 43rd album since 1983. The band's first few years, RP was still teaching high school in Dayton.

What other songwriter is producing stuff this great after 42 years. Nobody.

open.spotify.com/album/57oBee...

#Cats always smell neutral or pretty good. But they never smell bad. 🐈

The Robots Fueling Amazon’s Automation

From the "it was a matter of time" file...

DCs are going to become the #econdev sibling of data centers - big investment, big footprint, big utility user, handful of jobs.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

PHOTOS: See inside Detroit's new Wilson Park before it opens this weekend – Model D We got an early tour of the new 22-acre Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park, which will open to the public on Oct. 25.

I really feel like if cities constantly create cool sh*t, you eventually get to critical mass and become a Place To Be.

So never stop building cool sh*t.

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A Universe Within A Universe Within A Universe: A Conversation With GBV Producer Travis Harrison On recording GBV's current run of albums, including their electrifying, live-in-the-studio forthcoming album, 'Thick Rich and Delicious,' out October 31

As a GBV guy, can't help but share this. Really captures the output and the nuance that is Robert Pollard - America's greatest living rock n' roll songwriter.

open.substack.com/pub/excitedo...

"Entering just five prompts into ChatGPT is the equivalent of fully charging your cell phone or drinking an entire 8-ounce glass of water."

www.iedconline.org/news/2025/10...

Factory Towns Revive as Defense Tech Makers Arrive

If offshoring is a no-go for national defense / patriotic justifications, this sector could definitely be a Rust Belt Reviver.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/t...

The other reality is that because of the nutso incentives used to win many of these projects, there won't be much benefit to tax rolls.

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

The game is won when the cameras are off.

Of the top 10 research institution contributors to science journals, 8 are Chinese. A decade ago, there was only 1.

Harvard is the only U.S. institution on the current list.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

Project 2025 group making plans to boost US birth rate The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank involved in crafting Project 2025, is planning to tackle the declining birth rate.

Level of myopia to think that a "Manhattan Project to restore the nuclear family" will succeed without more affordable housing, middle-class opportunity jobs, immigration reform, and open trade is ludicrous.

www.newsweek.com/heritage-fou...

Walton family eyes 2028 opening for new university, seeks president committed to STEM education | Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette BENTONVILLE -- The Walton family has put out a call to find the inaugural president of a new business-oriented university focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, with the aim of o...

Billionaires who fund STEM colleges > than billionaires who buy super yachts.

www.nwaonline.com/news/2025/au...

Where will your team's next ballpark be? What Royals can teach us about the future of MLB stadiums Kansas City's ongoing search for a new home provides three models other franchises could follow.

The new calculus of sports stadium development. Battery-charged/inspired and all about the $$$$.

As an urbanist, it's great that "live, work, play" is actually used outside of a planning nerd context. But still not sold on a greenfield approach, especially in KCMO.

www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

Congrats to #PearlandTX for ranking #3 nationally and #1 in TX on US News' best places to live 2025.

BRS principals have managed all 4 Pearland Prosperity plans so we have seen first hand their vision to shoot for the stars and the perseverance to reach them.

realestate.usnews.com/places/texas...

The 10 public colleges with the best ROI in the U.S. If you're borrowing money to get a college education, it's smart to pick a school that helps you pay it back. These schools offer the best value.

Georgia Tech is arguably the number two asset in the state after Hartsfield-Jackson.

www.cnbc.com/2025/08/23/p...

IKEA is coming to Alabama: Where it will be and when it will open IKEA has consistently been on a "most-wanted" list among shoppers.

This says a ton about what the data show about Birmingham vs. Huntsville trajectory.

www.al.com/news/2025/08...

The Rise of OKC: How MAPS and the Thunder transformed Oklahoma City From Bricktown to the Oklahoma City Thunder, OKC has transformed a lot over the last 30 years. Karl Torp looks at what made the change possible.

So much about the OKC example is illustrative for #econdev strategy:

--Qualify of life > talent > jobs + investment > repeat
-- Transformational resources have to be approved/generated locally
--Lasting change takes time & perseverance
--Promoting your story matters

www.news9.com/story/688c34...

Amazingly enough, the cop's name was Officer Jerry.

"Boys of Summer" circa 2025.

"I saw a Harambe plate on a Mercedes Benz..."

Was the driver by any chance extremely hairy?

I think you could add Birmingham to the list, too. Lots of jobs, affordable suburban housing with solid schools, competitive quality of life amenities, traffic bad in stretches but only during peak periods.

I truly believe we're seeing the migration but the Census doesn't capture it.

Large study of scientists who move their labs reveals how location drives productivity Concentrating funding at high-powered universities can maximize output, paper argues, but may sacrifice broader benefits

Attracting a research professor's well-funded lab is the economic equivalent of a small steel mill. Never understood why #econdev doesn't reach out to institutions to support these types of efforts.

www.science.org/content/arti...

I should add, making a subsistence wage.

And when it's a working single parent, even the best educational support program in the world won't make a difference for those kids.

Props for at least reaching for the Holy Grail. They'd rule the world for sure if this works.