May 2012
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Find a Local Farmers Market →
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usagov: It’s a great time to visit your local farmers market and see what’s growing near you.
An email and link I received just a bit ago. Wow.
Its funny because it is scary
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/opinion/operating-in-the-dark.html?_r=1&hp
The Web site of Representative Daniel Webster, Republican of Florida, instructs visitors to click on a link for “Census data for the 8th district” to learn about the area’s economy, businesses, income, employment, homeownership and other important features. And yet, on Wednesday, Mr. Webster declared that the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey — the source for much of that data — is an unconstitutional breach of privacy.
Sen. Tom Coburn, part one: Defusing the debt bomb →
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EK: On the other side of that hypothetical, let’s say Obama wins, but Republicans hold the House and maybe even take the Senate. How do they act in that hypothetical? Are they more or less willing to compromise with Obama?
TC: I don’t know. I’m not good at predicting that. If President Obama is president again, those problems are still there and we have to solve them. He knows that. We’ve had conversations where he’s told me he’ll go much further than anyone believes he’ll go to solve the entitlement problem if he can get the compromise. And I believe him. I believe he would.
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“It’s also worth pointing out, as Salon’s Glenn Greenwald has, that as a Yale sophomore in 1965, George W. Bush reportedly stuck up for a reputedly gay student. Bush heard the student being called “queer,” told the taunters to shut up, and apparently also said, “Why don’t you try walking in his shoes for a while?” That’s the kind of instinctive compassion Mitt Romney failed to show when he was a few years younger than Bush was.”
—from “How Bad Was Mitt Romney’s Prep School Bullying?” By Emily Bazelon
Interpreting migration through the prism of reasons for moves: what can we learn about the economic returns to migration from survey data? William A. V. Clark University of California, Los Angeles →
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A neat paper— migration as consumption rather than investment.
