headquarters in new york city on this presidents day. there are high stakes today. joe biden, the first president in modern history to travel to a war zone without u.s. troops already on the ground. the message his visit is sending to ukraine, america s allies and the american people as he gears up for another run at the white house. how is vladimir putin responding to the president s diplomatic slap in the face as the kremlin tries to spin something positive out of a war marked by frustration and failure? we ll have a live report from moscow coming up. and ron desantis welcoming political attacks from his fellow republicans saying this morning if, quote, people aren t firing at me, then i m not doing my job. but how long until he starts firing back? a lot to get to. let s start with president biden already on the move, heading to poland following the unannounced and unprecedented visit to ukraine taking the opportunity to literally stand with president volodymyr zelenskyy
Thank you very much, erika. And thank you to my colleagues at the urban institute and the Lincoln Institute of land policy, putting together such a terrific program took excited to be here to talk with some my work with my coauthors at ucla and uc berkeley. First i wanted to take a couple minutes just to explain why my paper is different from the previous paper that was discussed. First our unit of analysis is typically when i look at these tiscali standardized cities but looking at cities just as they exist. We are not capturing these differences that andy laid out between baltimore and tampa but we are capturing the decisionmaking unit as opposed to maybe think about physically standardized cities as a people who live in the city center paying taxes and receiving services. We think about the decisionmakers in these cities. Our time. Is different. They are interested in the period after the Housing Market bust and we are interested in the boom. Also our measure where interested is hou
Man credited with inventing the Pop Tart dies at 96 knzr.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from knzr.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Pop Tarts(NEW YORK) William “Bill” Post, the man often credited with inventing the beloved Pop Tart, has died at 96.
Born on June 27, 1927 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Post was one of seven children born to Dutch immigrants and, at the age of 16, Post began working part-time washing trucks at Hekman Biscuit Company, according to his obituary.
After serving in the Army Air Corps in occupied Japan during World War II, Post would eventually return to Hekman at the age of 21 to work full as the personnel manager while also assisting with sales and production, along with many of the other elements of the business.
“Fast forward 20 years, and Bill as the plant manager of Hekman (later known as the Keebler Company) welcomed some executives from Kellogg’s who asked if he thought it would be possible for Keebler to create a new product they had in mind,” according to his obituary.
“It is at this juncture that Bill is often credited for having ‘invented’ the Pop Tart,” Post