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Date Title
2026-10-27 The Various Audiences for the MPA Degree
2026-10-21 Using administrative data is not working with practitioners
2026-09-02 The Special District Boundary Problem
2026-08-27 Thinking About Professional Local Government Management Education
2026-07-02 How I set up Zotero to maintain my sanity
2026-06-08 A figure that has been stuck in my head
2026-05-06 Appearance: WAMU’s 1A
2026-03-03 Uses (March 2026)
2026-01-14 Reorganizing My Teaching Files
2026-01-01 Uses
2025-12-12 Sorting out conference notes with Obsidian
2025-12-08 Quoting Dube
2025-12-05 Quoting Haixin-Tsik, Miyazaki, and Drew
2025-12-03 Automating Quarto blog post generation with Raycast
2025-11-12 Quoting Manduca, Highsmith, and Waggoner
2025-05-05 Finding orphans in Obsidian
2025-04-14 What do universities actually do?
2025-04-01 Academics as Creators
2024-11-08 Key light shenanigans
2024-03-07 Where are all of our students?
2024-01-09 My Necessarily Flawed List of Best or Most Interesting Articles of 2023
2023-09-13 Special districts cover services over large areas, but there is still duplication with local government provision
2023-06-28 Conservative states are more likely stop their cities from addressing affordable housing, but renters and federal action can help
2023-05-26 Overlapping local governments in DuPage County, IL
2023-02-27 Appearance: Public Money Pod
2023-01-25 Illinois Special Districts Per Capita, 2017
2022-04-28 Florida is dissolving the Reedy Creek Improvement District, home of Disney World. What happens next is anyone’s guess.
2022-01-25 Horizontal v. Vertical Fragmentation
2021-12-07 Municipal Incorporation in the US, 1789 - 2020
2021-11-17 The structure of US local governments is often a poor predictor of local economic growth
2021-07-14 Academic Project Management Notion (Update)
2021-04-22 Special Districts: America’s Shadow Governments
2021-04-16 Municipal Fragmentation in U.S. Metro Areas in 3 Maps
2020-09-15 The Price of Residential Street Parking
2020-06-16 Per Capita Independent Special Districts, 2017
2020-06-11 Academic Project Management using Notion
2020-05-16 Per Capita General-Purpose Local Governments, 2017
2020-05-07 Per Capita Local Governments, 2017
2020-04-17 Speculating on the Impact of COVID-19 on Chicagoland Property Taxes
2020-02-25 How to Desaturate Figures for Publication using R
2020-01-31 Total Local Governments, 2017
2020-01-19 How I Record Lectures
2019-12-03 Custom Coefficient Graphs
2019-10-21 Why your sprawling, low-density suburb may be costing your local government money
2019-10-15 MPA/MPP Degrees Conferred
2019-09-23 Local Government Overlap
2019-09-11 Students Writing Their Own Exam Questions
2019-03-20 How a type of local government you may have never heard of may be costing you a bit more
2018-12-12 Zipf’s Law
2018-11-30 County Supervisors per 100,000 Residents
2018-07-31 Long-Run Metropolitan Economic Growth in the U.S.
2018-07-28 Canadian City Councilors per 100,000 Residents
2018-07-28 City Councilors per 100,000 Residents
2018-06-30 Special District Creation and Dissolution
2018-06-16 Maps in R using {urbnmapr}
2018-04-18 Teaching Public Finance with John Oliver
2017-03-31 State Collection of Local Government Public Finance Data
2017-02-14 Maps in R using library(maps), Update!
2015-01-13 Property Tax Reliance in U.S. County Areas
2013-07-11 Maps in R using library(maps)
2013-05-23 Bill Fischel on School Districts
2012-06-27 Thoughts on the Atlanta Transportation Sales Tax
2012-05-16 Evidence of the Fundamental Law of Traffic Congestion
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