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Associate Professor @ NIU. Public finance & local govts. Special districts, mostly. 🚴 📍 Chicagoland 🌐 www.cgoodman.com

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Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · Nov 12

Hi folks, Chris here.

I figure I should do one of these intro things. I'm a prof at NIU, studying special districts and/or state preemption (people typically know me for one or the other).

I post a lot about local govts, Illinois, and cycling.

Welcome!

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 5h

Ah, Tadej doing Tadej things (again).

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 23h

Let's not.

Dan Malouff @beyonddc.bsky.social · 23h

Feds propose arch on Memorial Circle:

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

rendering of proposed arch

Reposted by Chris Goodman

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

Inspired by @marcwatkins.bsky.social and wanting to share his piece with my newsletter subscribers, I put my two cents in. open.substack.com/pub/engagede...

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 2d

Pretty sure some version of this was proposed when I lived in Philly in 2012. Though it could have been any number of other failed riverfront tower proposals.

Jake Blumgart @jblumgart.bsky.social · 2d

A 620-unit tower planned next to Pennsport, on the Delaware River, could be the first of three (although given the history of failed projects on this parcel many are skeptical) www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Apartment tower planned for Columbus Boulevard could be the first of three

The proposal is the latest for a parcel that has seen multiple failed development plans in the last decade.

www.inquirer.com

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 2d

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 3d

In any normal state, this would violate state law about referenda being on a single topic and easily disallowed. But this is Missouri, so…

Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 3d

This is absurd. What the amendment would actually do is ban abortion and youth gender-affirming care. Are you getting that… at all from this ballot language? missouriindependent.com/2025/10/07/m...

“Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to:

Guarantee women’s medical care for emergencies, ectopic pregnancies, and miscarriages;
Ensure women’s safety during abortions;
Ensure parental consent for minors;
Repeal Article I, section 36, approved in 2024; allow abortions for medical emergencies, fetal anomalies, rape, and incest;
and Prohibit sex-change procedures for children?”

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 3d

That’s a nod in agreement, if it’s not obvious.

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 3d

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 3d

Ah, never mind. Mountain is doing its weird “I’m actually pacific” thing right now.

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 3d

It should help. Plus I’m going only one hour different but in opposite directions. Mountain tomorrow; eastern next week.

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 3d

There’s gonna be a point where I’m not gonna know what city I’m in.

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 3d

I don’t know how people travel for a living. I have three conferences this month, and I cannot keep anything straight.

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 3d

To preserve community character, around here, but that's ultimately the same thing or worse (build literally nothing at all and encase the place in amber).

Toby Muresianu @tobyhardtospell.bsky.social · 3d

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 4d

This is when I wish @mpteodoro.bsky.social were more active on here. This is a solution to under-resourced, small water systems, but perhaps in the wrong direction.

Illinois American Water buys Madison's wastewater system for $3M

Illinois American Water has $9.1 million in investments planned for the Metro East community's wastewater system over the next five years.

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 4d

Clearly, we're besieged (by feds).

Chicago named best big city in US for 9th straight year: survey

For the ninth year in a row, Chicago has been crowned the Best Big City in the United States by the Condé Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Awards.

www.fox32chicago.com

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 4d

No, not typically. There is a reprogramming process that involves GAO and Congress, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say none of that is happening.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 4d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 4d

Earlier this year, I boarded a flight at JFK, was informed that the crew had lost the pilot, deplaned, and then waited for two hours until someone either found the pilot or a replacement. It was interesting.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 4d

"we can't begin boarding because we're missing two crew members."

Excuse me, what?

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 4d

The weighting of the factors is bewildering (and exclusion of other stuff they also collect in Health). Such a miss.

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 4d

Your shot of Malört is also waiting. 😉

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 5d

This lines up perfectly with the counsel I give my MPA students. Your employer is paying you for your (critical thinking) skills. The second you aren't delivering on that is the second you aren't useful anymore.

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 5d

Ah.

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 5d

Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report

Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August.

arstechnica.com

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 5d

This is literally the only interpretation of these things. Rs could end this in whatever time it takes to do a voice vote in both houses, but they chose not to (because they don't have the votes). None of that is the responsibility of the Dems to fix.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 5d

The third amendment is about to get very relevant.

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

www.rawstory.com

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 5d

Pretty sure I saw juvenile bald eagle on my bike ride today, perhaps a female. Tannish/moddled head + way bigger than a hawk was the give away (plus, we have a cluster of them living nearby). It never ceases to be amazing.

Chris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 6d

Recommend: Boiled cider. Look it up.

Also, if you can buy from an orchard, just do that. It's a pain to make. Not hard, but annoyingly long and easy to burn.