The communication about service delivery is so great. Government does hard things. Let’s talk about it!

Same. But the Lincoln Memorial around midnight. Summer of 01. Park Police wandered by, discovered we were local, showing the sights to an exchange student at night, chatted with us and then went on their way. I love the city at night.

We’ve paid under market for so long that the gap is just radically divergent from what it used to be.

Can’t pay your rent with those vaunted public sector benefits.

I have to laugh every time a tech company discovers how little we pay public servants.

Techbros don’t understand that the mission is the important part. We take lower salaries because we want to do good.

However. Recruitment & retention in an era of higher prices means we need to address comp.

‘It’s untenable’: Lake County district attorney suddenly resigns, cites lack of funding DA Paul Charas said a lack of funding has made it difficult to prosecute cases in the rural Oregon county.

Charas told OPB that the lack of resources inhibits his ability “to do my job ethically and morally.”

In that vein, I used our work instance of Gemini to do some comparative legislative analysis from different states. The summary was…fine? Like 9th grade level. But it also parsed my own presentation to the legislature and parroted it back to me as something that I should be aware of in this field. 🤷‍♂️

I had to find a copy of my HS diploma for a background investigation one time. Not the transcript, just the diploma. But they did want my college transcripts though. 🤷‍♂️

Delaware, sure. Maryland? Let’s not be hasty now.

They stopped at Annapolis or Baltimore when I was in elementary school and we got to board the Mimi and talk to the crew. They taught us sea shanties. It was amazing.

Unhinged

Ok, so I fully admit that I picked a grad school on the metric of “do they have a dual MPA and criminology or CJ program available online” and didn’t consult the rankings. I’m surprised my uni came in tied for 120th. I quite enjoyed it and felt it was decently rigorous.

I have many questions about the World Cup match in Seattle we’re supposed to attend and all the foot traffic and hotel reservations it would generate. It’s Egypt vs Iran…

Eventually, the brain-damaged chimpanzees in the WH will figure out that the laws of armed conflict are enforced—in part—because an adversary is almost always capable of responding reciprocally to any violation you commit.

I just wonder how much global energy is taken offline before that happens.

we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it"

both parts are important!

We very much do not have this in the Portland metro. What we do have is about a half-dozen really big Facebook groups where everyone scrambles to find spots. It’s a mess, especially post-Covid

Trump administration cuts turned rural towns into sitting ducks for disasters The Trump administration has delayed billions of dollars for projects to protect Americans from floods, wildfires and hurricanes. Local leaders are increasingly anxious.

The Trump administration has delayed billions of dollars for projects to protect Americans from floods, wildfires and hurricanes. Local leaders are increasingly anxious.

I see your tree and raise you a space whale flanked by a giant skeleton.

I’d echo this. Lots of soy meat is what I’d call technicolor - close, but a little off. The nuggets though? Tasty.

“.. a glaring admission from Trump, who confessed point-blank that he thinks the government’s only responsibility is to fund the military.”

@newrepublic.com
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I’m super invested in this launch in way I haven’t really cared about space since I was a little kid. Let’s go 🚀🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑🌒🌓

Highly recommend it. End of June, early July is when it’s absolutely perfect outside. Plus Portland is just such an amazing city for food.

They’re just our friends, y’know?

Oh man, I think that was the year my cousins were in school until nearly July because they had too many snow days…in Boston.

CSG Expands Support for States as New Home of Intergovernmental Software Collaborative - The Council of State Governments A national, multi-state software collaborative addressing shared government policy and operational challenges is joining CSG under its National Center for Interstate Compacts (NCIC), transitioning fro...

I'm delighted to announce that the State Software Collaborative, that Robin Carnahan and I started in 2020, is growing up and leaving its @beeckcenter.bsky.social nest— @csgovts.bsky.social is taking it on as a major new initiative, building and supporting shared intergovernmental software.

I’m so glad MCPS is still on its “hate gifted kids” train 25 years after I graduated (as an alum of both MS and HS magnets, I feel your pain).

Funyuns Still Outselling Responsibilityuns DALLAS–Funyuns, the world leader in artificial onion-ring-flavored and -shaped snack-food items, continues to enjoy an "overwhelming sales lead" over competing brand Responsibilityuns, the trade publi...

Deep into the archives for this one.

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Well that’s rude of time to work that way.

I’ve literally never cast a ballot in person. Absentee ballots in college and then I moved to Oregon, which votes exclusively by mail. It’s an amazing system. They text you when your ballot is in the mail, when they receive it, and when it’s counted.

So, in a weird way that AI means the humanities is more important than ever, I feel like teaching universities and SLACs will have a real differentiator in a market where students want actual instruction - they just have to hold on long enough for the market to move to them.

But what if I hate teaching (and students) and just want to outsource the instruction part to AI so I can focus on my very special research, thereby screwing the next generation of undergraduates and depriving them of actual learning and experience?