John Mozena
@johnmoz.bsky.social
Working for economic development transparency & accountability at the Center for Economic Accountability - @accountableecon.bsky.social. Senior Fellow, Reason Foundation. Opinions=mine. #DCTID
I started this podcast on the shower speaker as I turned the water on. I was turning the water off, having both showered (including washing near shoulder-length hair) and shaved (face only) before @edsbs.bsky.social hit the “wwwwwwwelcome!” That’s Coen Brothers-level pre-credits content right there.
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I started this podcast on the shower speaker as I turned the water on. I was turning the water off, having both showered (including washing near shoulder-length hair) and shaved (face only) before @edsbs.bsky.social hit the “wwwwwwwelcome!” That’s Coen Brothers-level pre-credits content right there.
It was more complicated than that. Flint's elected officials were the ones pushing to get off Detroit water (which was its own dysfunctional clusterfuck; multiple people did federal time for corruption) and onto the new regional water system they'd co-founded. www.mlive.com/news/flint/2...
Closing the valve on history: Flint cuts water flow from Detroit after nearly 50 years
FLINT, MI – It will take two days before Flint residents can taste history.
www.mlive.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It was more complicated than that. Flint's elected officials were the ones pushing to get off Detroit water (which was its own dysfunctional clusterfuck; multiple people did federal time for corruption) and onto the new regional water system they'd co-founded. www.mlive.com/news/flint/2...
I had plenty of issues with Snyder, to be sure, but I think it's deeply unfair to hang Flint around his neck. He spent his governorship trying in (generally) good faith to clean up messes created by decades of mismanagement and that last one ended up unfairly defining his legacy.
May 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I had plenty of issues with Snyder, to be sure, but I think it's deeply unfair to hang Flint around his neck. He spent his governorship trying in (generally) good faith to clean up messes created by decades of mismanagement and that last one ended up unfairly defining his legacy.
The "Rick Snyder poisoned Flint" narrative was a political hit job aimed at a then-popular swing state Midwestern governor, diverting attention from the fact that Flint's own water plant poisoned its citizens because the city's elected officials had been illegally raiding water maintenance funds.
May 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The "Rick Snyder poisoned Flint" narrative was a political hit job aimed at a then-popular swing state Midwestern governor, diverting attention from the fact that Flint's own water plant poisoned its citizens because the city's elected officials had been illegally raiding water maintenance funds.
Snyder would actually have been a great Fellow there. His tenure as governor was incredibly interesting and productive - generational structural fiscal reforms, his handling of Detroit's issues was so adept and thoughtful that the city's Black newspaper endorsed him for reelection, etc.
May 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Snyder would actually have been a great Fellow there. His tenure as governor was incredibly interesting and productive - generational structural fiscal reforms, his handling of Detroit's issues was so adept and thoughtful that the city's Black newspaper endorsed him for reelection, etc.
Yes. According to my son, that's his primary appeal to a certain population of young men in their late teens & early 20s who seem to view him as some sort of hilarious living meme.
May 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Yes. According to my son, that's his primary appeal to a certain population of young men in their late teens & early 20s who seem to view him as some sort of hilarious living meme.
I was briefly, for my sins, the PR guy for the Not Very Nice Person who bought the Silverdome for $583,000. It was a miserable experience except for two things: I got to go up on the roof (terrible photo below), and I can say I had the key to the Silverdome on my keychain.
April 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I was briefly, for my sins, the PR guy for the Not Very Nice Person who bought the Silverdome for $583,000. It was a miserable experience except for two things: I got to go up on the roof (terrible photo below), and I can say I had the key to the Silverdome on my keychain.
Please stop not putting the crest on our kits.
March 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Please stop not putting the crest on our kits.
Can probably get this one used somewhere
January 1, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Can probably get this one used somewhere
My 78-y/o father today claimed that he doesn’t have a Spotify shuffle button because, and I quote, “My phone is too old.” (It is, in fact, old; it’s an iPhone 6 with the physical home button. But it does not have a non-shuffling Spotify app. He just couldn’t find it despite being sent screenshots.)
December 28, 2024 at 5:16 PM
My 78-y/o father today claimed that he doesn’t have a Spotify shuffle button because, and I quote, “My phone is too old.” (It is, in fact, old; it’s an iPhone 6 with the physical home button. But it does not have a non-shuffling Spotify app. He just couldn’t find it despite being sent screenshots.)