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Sewage Sludge Down on the Farm
When I was a teenager, my father worked at the LeSourdsville Regional Water Reclamation Facility. He worked second shift, and I worked for the Butler County Auditor’s Office, so it wasn’t unusual to run out to the plant. Maybe delivering dinner or just chilling. I had to drive right by
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Sunspots Will Not Cause an Ice Age
I grew up in this small town in Ohio called Hamilton. I’ve talked about it here, before. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions. The Journal-News is the local daily newspaper, something we don’t see a lot of here in Maryland. But it is pretty common when you head further
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The House Should Refuse to Seat the Georgia Delegation
As of this writing, the results of the Georgia election are settled. What is not known, however, is the degree to which blatant and obvious attempts to suppress the vote interfered in the election. I won’t outline them here; the evidence of voter fraud committed by Brian Kemp is extremely
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Howard County, and Everyone Else, Needs the Plastic Bag Tax
Del. Terri Hill has recently proposed legislation that would give the Howard County Council the ability to impose a nominal tax on disposable bags. The Sun did a write up on it: Proposal would allow Howard County to impose a plastic bag tax Democrat Terri Hill plans to introduce a
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A Challenge Problem for Extra Credit
I just gave the following problem to my MATH 106 students: Hello, everyone. We’re getting to that point in the semester when students start asking the question every professor hates: Can I get extra credit? Now, I will say something really important here and that is I do not like
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The Size and Structure of the Howard County Council
It’s been a week since the election and we’re all still digesting the results, I think. Here in Howard County, things mostly slow down. The next big things to happen in Howard County will be two long term processes. First, after the Census, the County will reapportion County Council seats,
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Parallelized Implementation of bootCI for DCchoice
I’ve been helping a small team work on some willingness-to-pay analysis using double-bounded choice survey data. I’ll post more about that soon, but I am writing now to talk about the double-bounded choice models in R. The DCchoice library is really nice and makes the analysis about as simple as
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