Jeff Horner
@jeffhorner.bsky.social
Teaching Professor of Urban Studies at Wayne State University. Urban Planner. Student of film and literature. Great-great grandson of a bigamist. Parent (but only one spouse). Thoughts expressed are exclusively my own.
Shorter Nolan Finley: "The Mississippi Educational Miracle can work in Michigan too!"
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Maybe, but only if we practice the same selection bias that Mississippi did to misleadingly bolster its reading scores:
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Maybe, but only if we practice the same selection bias that Mississippi did to misleadingly bolster its reading scores:
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How much of “Mississippi’s education miracle” is an artifact of selection bias? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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February 15, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Shorter Nolan Finley: "The Mississippi Educational Miracle can work in Michigan too!"
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Maybe, but only if we practice the same selection bias that Mississippi did to misleadingly bolster its reading scores:
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/h...
www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...
Maybe, but only if we practice the same selection bias that Mississippi did to misleadingly bolster its reading scores:
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/h...
Shorter Detroit News Editorial Board: "We need to further subsidize unchecked urban sprawl by cutting the taxes of those best positioned to pay for it."
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Policymakers' response to Michigan's economic freefall of the last 50 years has been nothing but tax cuts.
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Policymakers' response to Michigan's economic freefall of the last 50 years has been nothing but tax cuts.
Editorial: Property tax relief shouldn't stop with seniors
Property taxes are squeezing Michigan families. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has proposed relief, but it should be more broad-based.
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February 15, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Shorter Detroit News Editorial Board: "We need to further subsidize unchecked urban sprawl by cutting the taxes of those best positioned to pay for it."
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Policymakers' response to Michigan's economic freefall of the last 50 years has been nothing but tax cuts.
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Policymakers' response to Michigan's economic freefall of the last 50 years has been nothing but tax cuts.
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Really impressed with the Olympics commercials for AI that keep showing me all the amazing things it can do, like tell me that Olympic athletes train for their events for a long time and other amazing secrets that can only be found by paying big money and draining a lake.
February 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Really impressed with the Olympics commercials for AI that keep showing me all the amazing things it can do, like tell me that Olympic athletes train for their events for a long time and other amazing secrets that can only be found by paying big money and draining a lake.
Shorter Detroit News Editorial Board: Yes, this criminal administration may have overreached by abducting and murdering citizens using masked Gestapo tactics in Minneapolis, but Walz and Mayor Frey are also to blame for not aligning and coordinating with them.
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Editorial: Both sides should de-escalate, engage in Minneapolis
The tone of compromise that has now been struck is exactly what should have happened before blood was shed on the streets.
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February 1, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Shorter Detroit News Editorial Board: Yes, this criminal administration may have overreached by abducting and murdering citizens using masked Gestapo tactics in Minneapolis, but Walz and Mayor Frey are also to blame for not aligning and coordinating with them.
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From Joint Operating Agreement to Joint Ownership Agreement - More McPaper Neuharth conservatism for both Detroit dailies.
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The Detroit News now part of USA TODAY Network
The Detroit News is officially part of USA TODAY Co.’s network of more than 200 newspapers.
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February 1, 2026 at 1:12 AM
From Joint Operating Agreement to Joint Ownership Agreement - More McPaper Neuharth conservatism for both Detroit dailies.
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Shorter Detroit News Editorial Board: Local government "should respond to the needs of their citizens" by increasing allowable density in their single-family subdivisions. 90% of such citizens neither need nor would welcome more density, as they chose low-density housing in the first place.
January 18, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Shorter Detroit News Editorial Board: Local government "should respond to the needs of their citizens" by increasing allowable density in their single-family subdivisions. 90% of such citizens neither need nor would welcome more density, as they chose low-density housing in the first place.
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Jan 1, 2026: DC is a Trump theme park, complete with a Trump triumphal arch, arts center, and a $400M ballroom. Troops police civilians, prisons overflow without trials, the military metes out death abroad, and racism spills into real-world terror. Reality called. No one picked up.
January 1, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Jan 1, 2026: DC is a Trump theme park, complete with a Trump triumphal arch, arts center, and a $400M ballroom. Troops police civilians, prisons overflow without trials, the military metes out death abroad, and racism spills into real-world terror. Reality called. No one picked up.
Sounds like the daddy party has become the mommy party.
Trump Spills On The Real Reason For His Speedy Speech
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December 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Sounds like the daddy party has become the mommy party.
Detroit News changes AP story headline "Trump sustains political attack on Rob Reiner in inflammatory post after his killing" to "Trump appears to mock Rob Reiner death in social media post." Next? Trump appears to have bandages on his hand? His ankles are apparently swollen? Journo malpractice!
December 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Detroit News changes AP story headline "Trump sustains political attack on Rob Reiner in inflammatory post after his killing" to "Trump appears to mock Rob Reiner death in social media post." Next? Trump appears to have bandages on his hand? His ankles are apparently swollen? Journo malpractice!
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The White House knows they can call the press names, denigrate reporters, all of it — because those same reporters and mainstream outlets are in on the scam. They get access and scoops and book deals and career advancement by cozying up to the people who publicly abuse them. They don’t care.
December 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The White House knows they can call the press names, denigrate reporters, all of it — because those same reporters and mainstream outlets are in on the scam. They get access and scoops and book deals and career advancement by cozying up to the people who publicly abuse them. They don’t care.
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The left joins with right against the middle takes on the Trump/Mamdani meeting are way off. There is nothing substantive here. There will be no policy breakthroughs. That’s not what this is about. It’s about a young smart guy who knew how to play an old fool who worships stars.
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The left joins with right against the middle takes on the Trump/Mamdani meeting are way off. There is nothing substantive here. There will be no policy breakthroughs. That’s not what this is about. It’s about a young smart guy who knew how to play an old fool who worships stars.
Shorter Detroit News Editorial Board: Providing billions in subsidies to heath insurers allowing 40M+ uninsured to afford quality health care failed to satiate insurance and medical industry greed.
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Editorial: Democrats passed Obamacare. They own its failure.
Democrats muscled the ACA through Congress in 2010, owning every letter of former President Barack Obama’s signature policy along the way.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Shorter Detroit News Editorial Board: Providing billions in subsidies to heath insurers allowing 40M+ uninsured to afford quality health care failed to satiate insurance and medical industry greed.
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At what point does the New York Times get charged as organizationally conspiring to abet human trafficking of minors.
November 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
At what point does the New York Times get charged as organizationally conspiring to abet human trafficking of minors.
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Getting annoyed listening to charter school activists lie again and again that charter schools are public schools.
They are not.
They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.
They are not.
They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.
November 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Getting annoyed listening to charter school activists lie again and again that charter schools are public schools.
They are not.
They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.
They are not.
They are publicly funded private schools that siphon money away from public schools and produce no better results.
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
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It’s amazing that Republicans are suddenly concerned with how much money insurance companies are making.
We would be happy to sit down with you to fix that problem. But I suspect that just might be a red herring to distract from the fact that they just want to kill the ACA.
We would be happy to sit down with you to fix that problem. But I suspect that just might be a red herring to distract from the fact that they just want to kill the ACA.
November 8, 2025 at 1:12 AM
It’s amazing that Republicans are suddenly concerned with how much money insurance companies are making.
We would be happy to sit down with you to fix that problem. But I suspect that just might be a red herring to distract from the fact that they just want to kill the ACA.
We would be happy to sit down with you to fix that problem. But I suspect that just might be a red herring to distract from the fact that they just want to kill the ACA.
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Of course I'm worried about socialism. I mean, just imagine if Mamdani one day becomes President and nationalizes industry, imposes historic tax hikes, goes after the media, builds a secret national police force, militarizes the country, and sends people to camps.
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Of course I'm worried about socialism. I mean, just imagine if Mamdani one day becomes President and nationalizes industry, imposes historic tax hikes, goes after the media, builds a secret national police force, militarizes the country, and sends people to camps.
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The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.
Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.
November 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The irony is that a century ago, the exact same kind of religious bigotry that Cuomo’s embraced down the stretch — we can’t elect someone from that faith or they’ll impose it on all of us! — was aimed squarely at Catholics like Cuomo.
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I hope they explained to the Toronto fans that cancer charities are what the United States has in lieu of a functional healthcare system
October 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I hope they explained to the Toronto fans that cancer charities are what the United States has in lieu of a functional healthcare system
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The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.
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One of the blissful things about being in Canada was the lack of pharmaceutical ads. It’s amazing how many other products exist in the world- chocolate! Laundry detergent! - that you can hear about if you’re not being told about medullary thyroid cancer
October 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
One of the blissful things about being in Canada was the lack of pharmaceutical ads. It’s amazing how many other products exist in the world- chocolate! Laundry detergent! - that you can hear about if you’re not being told about medullary thyroid cancer
Every allegation of wrongdoing out of this administration is projection.
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Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show
A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.
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September 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Every allegation of wrongdoing out of this administration is projection.
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Shorter Nolan Finley: "Here's 45 words that libs should never say, and here's 0 dem candidates or elected officials who said them."
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Finley: 45 words Democrats should never say
The memo scolds Democrats and their allies for using "an awful lot of words and phrases no ordinary person would ever dream of saying."
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September 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Shorter Nolan Finley: "Here's 45 words that libs should never say, and here's 0 dem candidates or elected officials who said them."
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Interim U of Mich president misunderstands the message of Frost's 'Mending Wall' by aligning himself with the unneighborly asshole in the poem. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...
Tlaib, pro-Palestinian protesters claim unfair treatment by UM. Officials demand civility
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib visited the University of Michigan to support student protesters claiming unfair treatment by the school on Gaza war.
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August 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Interim U of Mich president misunderstands the message of Frost's 'Mending Wall' by aligning himself with the unneighborly asshole in the poem. www.detroitnews.com/story/news/p...
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I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.
August 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I just can’t believe our Reichstag Fire is the Big Balls Beatdown.