reminders of road work and tree pruning

House Bill 133 changes the effective date that successful initiatives become law, giving the legislature time to review it. House Bill 145 creates a system to see almost real time who signs a citizen referendum petition (and allows for signature removal at the same time), and House Bill 195 changes the signature threshold. Critics have accused the legislature of overstepping their power over initiatives..

Once the true potential environmental impacts of an F 35 bed down at Truax Field are known, it is incumbent on the USAF/ANG to consider carefully its choice of preferred location. If there are options that represent less harm to communities and the environment, as it appears in the draft EIS, those options should be preferred. If preferred locations, such as Madison, are known to have significant negative impacts as shown in the final EIS, the USAF must be prepared to prevent and/or fully mitigate those impacts.

The Canadians are coming, and they’re bringing poutine. Smoke’s Poutinerie opened on Durant Avenue in Berkeley on Monday, Dec. 8 (as first reported on Berkeleyside in September). As we saw in the data, it’s quite a potent mechanism; in fact, it accounts for why white people who are COVID positive die more often.Because the two causal diagrams are the same, you might think that in the second case, too, we should not stratify the data; instead we should use the aggregate data and conclude that COVID is a disease that “discriminates” against whites.However, this argument ignores the second key ingredient I mentioned earlier: interrogating the data using correctly phrased causal queries.What is our query in this case? It’s different from what it was in the drug example. In that case, we were looking at the drug as a preventative for a heart attack. If we were to look at the COVID data in the same way, we would ask, “What is the total lifetime effect of intervening (before birth) to change a person’s race?” And yes: if we could perform that intervention, and if our sole objective was to prevent death from COVID, we would choose to change our race from white to non white.

The order was placed January 26th, and shipped out the 29th. When they got to the ISC in LA, they were halted for about 10 12 days and I was getting somewhat nervous. I recieved them yesterday February 16th. Benji Hardy has provided a longer, detailed account of events at Joint Audit Committee this morning when legislators prevented Brad Choate from giving his side of his firing as head of the University of Arkansas Advancement Division. He begins with the whistle blowing John Diamond, ousted as the UA top spokesman, after what he says were objections to the UA resistance to public accountability. Diamond insists he can prove Chancellor David Gearhart supported destruction of material relevant to a recent prosecutorial review that ended with a recommendation for no criminal charges..