Federal Government

FAA Airport Tower Closings

March 23, 2013 Budget

Being a former Air Force pilot and still something of an aviation geek, I’m checking this list to see which of these airports – whose towers will be closed – I’ve landed at. All these closures are due to the Federal Budget cutbacks built into the “Sequester,” non-thinking, across-the-board cuts. Tower closures do not equate […]

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Evidently, Some Believe That Ignorance is Better

May 10, 2012 Census

It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out where we’ll come down in this fight. With a tagline, “use the damn data,” one should probably assume that we think it’s not only important, it’s essential that we collect valid, reliable data. And it shouldn’t be a surprise that we believe that for social and economic […]

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