Rick Hills
@rickhills.bsky.social
William T Comfort III Professor of Law, NYU Law School, studying & teaching local gov’t, landuse regulation, const’l law, fed courts, admin law, legislation, and federalism. Forlorn hope: reduce stakes and polarization by decentralizing divisive decisions.
Just to give you you an idea of what sorts of cards states have to play, consider this chart — and realize that a giant % of federal spending is tied up in defense, interest on debt, and non-discretionary entitlements. taxpolicycenter.org/sites/defaul...
October 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Just to give you you an idea of what sorts of cards states have to play, consider this chart — and realize that a giant % of federal spending is tied up in defense, interest on debt, and non-discretionary entitlements. taxpolicycenter.org/sites/defaul...
Isn’t the most logical explanation for the ICAO decision to include a sex field in Doc 9303 that they needed the form to be standard across nations to be machine-readable? Some nations had a sex field for passports, some didn’t, so the ICAO included the field for ease of adoption across both?
September 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Isn’t the most logical explanation for the ICAO decision to include a sex field in Doc 9303 that they needed the form to be standard across nations to be machine-readable? Some nations had a sex field for passports, some didn’t, so the ICAO included the field for ease of adoption across both?
Sure, but I don’t get a lot of land-use and local gov’t news, data, or analysis here. Elmendorf posts his 🧵s on X so far as I can tell. The zoning news items from smaller jurisdictions or latest NBER papers mostly don’t show up here as they did in the twitter days. Maybe I need to curate better…
September 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Sure, but I don’t get a lot of land-use and local gov’t news, data, or analysis here. Elmendorf posts his 🧵s on X so far as I can tell. The zoning news items from smaller jurisdictions or latest NBER papers mostly don’t show up here as they did in the twitter days. Maybe I need to curate better…
True, Greer’s writing from the Right. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t hear a lot of vitriol from Tanner against “the Left” in this piece—certainly not the sort of invective that writers from the Right typically use to blame Kirk’s murder on progressives or liberals.
September 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
True, Greer’s writing from the Right. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t hear a lot of vitriol from Tanner against “the Left” in this piece—certainly not the sort of invective that writers from the Right typically use to blame Kirk’s murder on progressives or liberals.
Palmer’s Pigweed didn’t just defeat me: It has evolved a genetic resistance to glyphosate (aka Round-Up), costing millions in lost cotton and soybean crops that it swamps. So, yes, it is noxious (albeit edible!) But still it deserves some respect for sheer toughness. cen.acs.org/business/spe...
Palmer amaranth, the king of weeds, cripples new herbicides
Scientists in the US sound the alarm about a crop-smothering weed that is growing resistant to multiple herbicides
cen.acs.org
August 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Palmer’s Pigweed didn’t just defeat me: It has evolved a genetic resistance to glyphosate (aka Round-Up), costing millions in lost cotton and soybean crops that it swamps. So, yes, it is noxious (albeit edible!) But still it deserves some respect for sheer toughness. cen.acs.org/business/spe...
McEntarfer is the epitome of the apolitical civil servant. She started at the Census Bureau 20 years ago as a labor economist and has worked at calculating jobs numbers ever since. She was confirmed by the Senate 86-8 in 2024, at the height of partisan polarization. www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report
The president implied that the BLS commissioner, longtime federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."
www.nbcnews.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM