Category: Economics
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Madison Water Utility’s Science Denial
Madison’s Water Utility Board is set to vote on an expansion of Well 7 (up on Sherman Ave, near Sherman Middle School/Shabazz). To approve it would be a major denial of science.
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Why Mark Pocan Fails…
None of the candidates in the Wisocnsin 2nd District Congressional race has any interest in taking on the interests which want to bake your world and grind you to dust.
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Never Leave Home Without Your Geographer: Krugman, Gruber
In my daily dose of Krugman I really enjoyed this: China also derives big advantages from the fact that so much of the supply chain is already there. A former Apple executive explained: “You need a thousand rubber gaskets? That’s the factory next door. You need a million screws? That factory is a block away.”…
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Pleasant’s Wrecking Ball
Pleasant & Co. wish to demolish the spirit of State Street.
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Nicole Foss: “The Great Recession, Energy Depletion, and Political Turmoil,” at Goodman TONIGHT
Nicole Foss will be speaking tonight at 7 at the Goodman Center (details below). She is quite a speaker. I went to see her when she was here back in 2010. Her thinking is amazing–bringing together economics, social relations, and the natural/physical world in one very all-encompassing view. She is very good at demonstrating–jargon-free–the physical/energy…
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And the Paving Goes On….
Just sent this to the Long Range Transportation Planning Committee: Dear Commissioners, I have reviewed in great detail Item 5. Informational Presentation on the Preliminary Design of the CTH M Roadway Corridor (Prairie Hill Road to Cross Country Road). How can any of these highway expansion options be acceptable in light of the budget squeeze caused by…
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Downtown Plan: Pave the Lakes! Drive a Stake through Miffland!
Madison’s Downtown Plan seeks to kill everything that makes Madison not Rockford: Kill Miffland, Pave the Lakes.
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Irresponsible Medicine
Are they insane? Have our elected leaders never heard of evidence-based medicine? What kills me is that our congresswoman, Tammy Baldwin, makes universal health care her signature issue, but we never, ever hear her resolving to create a medical system that emphasizes health. It is always about more medicine at all costs. Let’s face it…
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Surprise! Surprise! Budgetary Surprise! (Not!)
As I predicted three years ago, Madison highway expansion binge is overwhelming city finances.
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Peripatetic Cyber-Peregrinations
Miscellaneous readings of late: Free will does exist. Buses have history, too! Jack up the gas tax! For decades I’ve been pushing for radically higher gas taxes, at the pump, as well as carbon taxes & such. This little article earned me many enemies among good liberals*, and my public testimony against Mayor Pave’s dirty…