Big fan of this paper and I'm glad it found a home. Environmental infrastructure spending is understudied compared to its budget.
Cyclists can only do so much to prop a company up.
(Uncrustables are incredibly common long ride fuel)
I assume capture of boards by all kinds of interests (that the authority model was supposed to insulate against), but I have not seen much written on this.
More on the financial precarity of South suburban municipalities.
Ugh, Daily Herald, fix your link previews.
From: "School, library officials demand Cook County step up tax payments"
I have to go to several non-academic conferences per year as part of my director job. The demand for these conferences is always high with the conference hotels selling out quickly. The one I just registered for (in Oct) had the conference hotel sell out in less than 2 hours.
One of the historical arguments for public authorities (as an institution) was technical competence. This is repeated over and over again in the academic, legal, and trade literatures from the 30s to the 60s.
I'm not sure that holds anymore. I'm also not sure why this has changed.
It is super cool to watch a storm come at us, hit the lake, and blow to pieces.
"Payments from 2024 and 2025, for example, are commingled in the system, so even when money has been collected, the treasurer's office cannot tell a library or school district exactly how much of what they received came from which tax year."
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Will Wheeler
📢 Out now in the 🌸May 2026 issue🌸of #JAERE! 📢
"Municipal Governments Under the Clean Water Act" by Rhiannon L. Jerch.
📎 Read it here: buff.ly/jrPGyQ7
📈📉 #Econsky
