Courage, Semantics, Personal Knowledge, and “He Knew What He Signed Up For”
This comment is well outside the scope of what I usually write about here. But the recent controversy about President Trump’s call to the family of a serviceman killed in Niger began while I was with a...
View ArticleBoom and Bust in the Supply of U.S. Air Force Pilots
This past fall in San Antonio, I was part of a small group of former Air Force pilots briefed on the current pilot shortage.. Now the issue is written up in Foreign Policy: USAF pilot shortage: What’s...
View ArticleCongratulations to the Town of Brookhaven, NY
Congratulations to the Town of Brookhaven, NY, to Supervisor Ed Romaine, and to the elected and staff leadership of local villages and participating school districts for winning New York’s first...
View ArticleSupremes Opera
Despite their philosophical differences, Supreme Court Justices Scalia and Ginsburg, both opera buffs, were reportedly great personal friends. So we shouldn’t be surprised, that Derrick Wang, who...
View ArticleYeah, we know about lying with statistics
“It is easy to lie with statistics, but it is easier to lie without them.” Frederick Mosteller (1916-2006)
View ArticleIn this day and age? Really?
Was recalling for a colleague a couple of local government projects I’ve worked on the past few years: in two consolidation cases, three of the four municipalities involved had hand-written budgets....
View ArticleWhat if Last Week’s Stock Market Tumble Wasn’t Due or Not Entirely to...
My friend Tom Fiddamon (@tomfid), a System Dynamicist of the first order, just published Stock markets and coronavirus – an endogenous perspective – MetaSD. His summary point is: Coronavirus may indeed...
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Medicaid Enrollment “Blips”
Updated Medicaid enrollment tracker (through last May) today and found some interesting and perhaps related “blips.” For about four years, there had been a slow decline in enrollment for all age groups...
View ArticleSNAP Data for New York
This visualization shows trends and related data for New York’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). It’s the old Food Stamps program. I did this for Feeding NYS. Their version is here....
View ArticleCounty Level Population Changes in New York State
The bigger a county’s population in New York in 2010, the faster the growth to 2020 – not only was the number of the increase bigger, the rate of growth was bigger. Translation, New York City and the...
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