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This page is intended for those who wish to read all of my key posts, in general or on a specific subject, and know everything I have learned in 40 years of following public policy.Posts based on state and local government finances data, and related spreadsheets, are on this separate page. https://larrylittlefield.wordpress.com/the-latest-public-finance-spreadsheets/ This page provides...
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New York is sitting on a $20 billion pot of unclaimed money, and some of it might be yours. Here's how to see if you're on the list.
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They're trying to make an ass out of you and me. MTA leadership said it will assume it can ride out the $15-billion capital budget hole caused by Gridlock Gov. Kathy Hochul's congestion pricing pause - even as the agency admits that that assumption will cost $340 million every year starting next year. The agency [...]
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Two competing arguments are making the rounds. The first is by a neurosurgeon in the New York Times. In an op-ed that honestly sounds like it was paid for by Waymo, the author calls driverless cars a "public health breakthrough": In medical research, there's a practice of ending a study early when the results are too striking to ignore. We stop when there is unexpected harm. We also stop for overwhelming benefit, when a treatment is working so well that it would be unethical to continue giving anyone a placebo. When an intervention works this clearly, you change what you do...
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