ON BROADWAY 113TH

What's it like to be a Black professor: Since moving to Ithaca, police have stopped me SIX times. I received two tickets for driving w/o a license (I have a valid license). One for driving an ATV on the highway (I have no ATV and probably wouldn't drive one on highway 81).

Kristi Noem’s killing of her pet dog highlights America’s moral decline under Biden.

Jeff Bezos emails Amazon exec

February 29, 2020

Forever wild to me that Los Angeles once had the best transit system in the world and we ripped it all up.

Finally read this complaint carefully. Damning stuff--RealPage helps landlords jointly raise rents in Phoenix, Tucson, and cities across the country and contributes to the housing crisis. This should be a national scandal.

Sweden typically places multiple speed cameras in a series on a given road.

This new paper finds that their installation reduces crash deaths by an average of 38.6%.

doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.…

Talking points about an 'invasion' poisons discourse--again.

'Invasion'-talk is dangerous. It others. It dehumanizes. It invokes analogies to war, and, at least, implicitly endorses war-like responses.

For more, watch this by Jazmine Ulloa

nytimes.com/video/us/polit…

The inflation rate is almost exactly at the 100-year average.

NYT:

What will it take to convince the Democrats (finally) to run against this Court? /end

Justice Alito suggests that, if former presidents are subject to prosecution after leaving office, they'll be more likely to seek to unlawfully remain in office after they were defeated for re-election/their term has ended.

JFC.

Here’s the letter that the UT Austin Faculty Council Executive Committee (which includes me) sent to our colleagues this morning respecting yesterday’s events:

t.e2ma.net/message/7jm7kk…

This is the UT Austin President exercising 'extraordinary restraint' in dealing with a peaceful protest. With liberals like these who needs the GOP.

AR-15 is absolutely right. I am so sick of the free loading. I propose the “Fair Share Transportation Act.” ALL modes should be priced at their full, true costs including road wear, required land, air and noise pollution, injuries and deaths.

Ever considered that encouraging investments in continued education and training is an argument against at-will employment?

Surprise: Hardly any employer chooses to set this incentive voluntarily. They must be leaving billions on the table!

#noncompetes

Opinion | The spoiled, privileged trust-funders protesting at Columbia and Yale need to learn more about the real world

by Jared Kushner and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The Dobbs decision led to a sharp rise in women deciding that if they’re not allowed to control their fertility, they'll eliminate it. economist.com/graphic-detail…

Re-upping this insightful LPE Blog series of perspectives on the TikTok ban bill, cc. Ganesh Sitaraman Sanjay Jolly Anupam Chander Zephyr Teachout Nikolas Guggenberger

With the TikTok sell-or-ban bill passing the Senate yesterday, a good time to revisit two recent posts on the legislation.

First up, six short reactions from Ganesh Sitaraman, Elettra Bietti, Sanjay Jolly, Zephyr Teachout, Nikolas Guggenberger, & Anupam Chander.

lpeproject.org/blog/six-react…

Concerned that your university does not invest enough in your continued education and training, just sign a non compete to set the right incentives!