“We promote ourselves as a wonderful place for tourists with Chugach views and airplane trips to glaciers...Do we really want to promote this gash through the urban fabric, with all that concrete, so people from the Valley can get down to fishing faster?”

Anchorage received 9.9' of snow yesterday and the high temp was +2F. There are 436 days with a high of +2F or colder (since 1916). Before yesterday, the most snow on those 436 days was 1.5' (1/4/1917). 9.9' had never fallen on a day with a high temp under +15F.

#econtwitter We're late to the party, but UAA is hiring in applied micro. Can someone with a bigger following than mine boost this?

careers.alaska.edu/en-us/job/5272…

This past session, Sen. Bill Wielechowski & I pushed the Dunleavy Admin & Alaska DOT&PF to add more money for Southcentral snow removal on the Transport Finance Subcommittee. We succeeded in getting an additional $500k, which wasn't nearly enough-- just a small win. However... 1/12

Happy 3rd anniversary to the funniest thing that happened in the history of ever

The pandas from the national Zoo will land in Anchorage at 4pm today. Do our city and state leaders have the courage to grant them political asylum?

This comment demonstrates what an excellent piece of scholarship a replication can be. It’s a recreate reproduction & a conceptual replication - the latter by expanding the covered sample considerably. It puts the analysis on much firmer grounds 1/5 bit.ly/3ZvOtfp

UAA needs a women's hockey team.

One wealthy, privileged Anchorage family wants to halt a trail project that would connect two of our vital multi-use pathways - a project that has immense community support and would benefit many families for generations. Let Alaska Railroad know what you think.

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@protterboy The rain will continue until morale improves.

Recently, two of California's largest home insurance providers have halted policy sales, citing rising wildfire risk. A growing body of research shows the connections between climate and housing are multifold. Homeowners, renters, and policymakers need to prepare. Thread 🧵 1/13

Friday is Bike to Work Day! Have you planned your treat station tour? Check out this interactive map and click on a point to see what treats will be offered. Sun icon = 7-9am, Moon = 4-6pm (sometimes they overlap so you have to zoom way in to see the sun).
google.com/maps/d/viewer?…

Take our survey on safety! publicinput.com/safety_survey or text 'safety' to 73224

Attn: Austin City Council

New in The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat):

'Local Effects of Large New Apartment Buildings in Low-Income Areas' by Brian J. Asquith, Evan Mast, & Davin Reed

doi.org/10.1162/rest_a…

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This man's intense paranoia is threatening/killing our kids.

How did European cities get their human-centric streets and public spaces? Why could they escape the car-dependent status quo, while North America seemingly can’t?

There's one EASY trick planners and engineers don't want you to know about: Street Experiments. 🧵 1/

Authorship in economics is in alphabetical order, yet being listed last lowers perceived contribution!

So top Chinese econ PhDs in the US with last names at the end of the alphabet are 20% more likely than others to return to China rather than land a job in a US econ department.