Its my pleasure to invite tracy gordon, who is a senior fellow in the brookings urban tax policy center. She is a leading scholar and specialist in the area of state and local finance, and we are so delighted to have her as part of the urban team and working on these issues. And she is going to present work and research that shes done with colleagues at ucla and kick off our next panel conversation. Tracy . Thank you very much, erika. And thank to my colleagues at the urban institute and the Lincoln Institute of land policy. Such a terrific program. Very excited to be here today and talk about some of the work of my coauthors in l. A. At uc berkley. First, our unit of analysis is different. Were not looking at these fiscally standardized cities, but were looking at cities just how they exist. Were not capturing these differences that andy laid out between, say, baltimore and tampa, but we are capturing the decisionmaking unit as opposed to maybe you can think about fiscally standardize
I went back and have alex back in economics and got a couple degrees. I did work in the united universityn two computer networking operations. I had an internet policy project in the former soviet union. When you Bring Technology and the internet to another country, how do you do that . Depends when you do it. I put computers and some african countries as a matter of education, working with vendors, making sure you have the right prerequisites like electricity, making sure there is a process that has to happen and people are dedicated to, and making it happen. With the internet, it has been a little different. You need people who are in the country who are champions of the country. We did that primarily in the Internet Society when i was a trustee there by training people from developing countries how to do it. How to bring their computers online, how to develop networks, and how to do internet governance, Network Administration at the time. You have to work from the ground up. We acce
Thank you. Im ken rosato. Monday, december 7th. You are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans with the workweek accuweather forecast. Well, we start out with really nice weather. There is fog around this morning. Patchy dense fog in places. Lets go down the beach, shall we. Calm way to ease into this monday. Good visibility at 45 degrees to start the day. We are looking at normal overnight lows about 36, 37. We are starting out warmer. 27 to kingston, poughkeepsie. 27 carmel in putnam county. 40 bridgeport. 29 around sparta and Sussex County. 28 in monticello. Cool numbers to start the day which today we will see the temperature climbing up above normal for this time of the year. Looking at 55 today. Normal high is 46. Nearly 10 warmer than normal. Weather then heather. Heather is looking at it for you. Mass transit is doing great new jersey transit, Long Island Railroad, metro north are doing fine. One and two trains we had track work
About it until the new year. While most of the country is hitting pause jl janua hitting pause until january 2nd, there is political news right now. It seeps washington is still a terribly troubled place. This morning, were going to be asking what happens next on a series of challenges and crises that are facing the United States and the legal challenges the hak take down a president. Well talk about Donald Trumps many dangerous Foreign Policy decisions that have weakened america abroad and strengthened our enemies. Well talk about the stock markets continuous wild ride and ask where it may go next. Well hit on the Government Shutdown that shows no sign of ending anytime soon. And the fact that the government remains shut down is causing the president and the party to bleed new polls well see you this morning. Well talk about the death on the border of two Young Children who were in the custody of the United States government. Our government when they died. And what we can expect democ
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