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Counting largely minority prisoners as “residents” of the counties where they are imprisoned amounts to a racial gerrymander.
Archive for April, 2009
April 25th, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
Isn’t it funny how wingnuts hate the federal government until they need help?
April 24th, 2009
Category: Health Care
Obama has persuaded the Democrats in the Senate to hold open the option of doing health care reform under budget reconciliation.
April 24th, 2009
Category: Microeconomics and policy analysis
Why not spend some stimulus bucks on freight rail to protect the environment and reduce highway congestion and traffic fatalities?
April 24th, 2009
Jon scooped me on this last night because I got home so late from the all-day meeting of the Air Resources Board that adopted the LCFS. I was there because my team at Berkeley (with another group at Davis and a subcontract to Purdue) did a large part of the supporting research for this innovative [...]
April 24th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
Position monitoring via GPS and reporting via the cell-phone network, for less than $1 per day.
April 23rd, 2009
Category: Corruption in Washington, Garbage pail
It’s quite nice to be a big bank: you can take taxpayer money and have no accountability.
April 23rd, 2009
Category: Climate change, Energy and Environment
Some good news in the fight against climate change.