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Ashton Walker
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Dad. Punk. Urban History. Business History. Dirty Data. History of Economics. Theological Niceties. Baguio, Manila, Atlanta, Clarkston. 19th c. Savannah.
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Chattahoochee Brick Co. team shares project history, timeline at open house roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/11/09/c...
Chattahoochee Brick Co. team shares project history, timeline at open house
Learn about the Chattahoochee Brick Co. and Atlanta Riverlands project, a community-driven initiative to create a public space and memorialize history.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Care at the End of the World
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April 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Want a direct train from Atlanta to Savannah? Let GDOT know
Have you ever wanted to ditch the traffic and travel from Savannah to Atlanta by train? As of now, the trip requires several transfers up and around the east coast, taking up to 24 hours.
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March 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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February 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Building Inequality
Mapping the spatial and racial inequalities of FHA Section 608 rental housing, ca. 1942-1950
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February 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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🚨 🚀🌍 Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is launching three online tools – the Climate Backtracker, the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker & the Silencing Science Tracker – to keep tabs on the Trump administration’s climate rollbacks & anti-science actions: https://buff.ly/4jsf5HJ
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January 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Olivia Amyette is Bringing Solar Power—and Paid Job Training—to Georgians Who Need It - SACE | Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
For Olivia Amyette, solar power should be for everyone – plain and simple. But, for the young business owner, this doesn’t just mean access to owning and using solar panels. It also…
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January 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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How American Agriculture Went Wrong
The same forces of globalization and consolidation that hit the rest of the economy have wrecked America’s farms.
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December 27, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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Way too excited to have found a 400-page bibliography of the municipal utility literature up to 1918.
A Bibliography of Municipal Utility Regulation and Municipal Ownership
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December 19, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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A Clean Energy Boost for Multitasking Lands
A UC Davis Wild Energy Center report defines multi-use solar energy projects and the challenges and opportunities they present for California landscapes.
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December 2, 2024 at 7:24 PM
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"The new economic institutionalists treat work on institutions by a celebrated historian not as a coherent argument, but as a source of anecdotes. If they did this with data, you’d call it p-hacking."

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The Nobel for Econsplaining
Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won a prize for applying economics to the very things economics is inherently bad at figuring out
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November 29, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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Starts an hour in. Bill Brim at 1:24:00. Is there a discussion (preferably in GA) that connects this scale to the Isabella Weber level?
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November 27, 2024 at 11:55 AM