JD2718

A nest egg. A rainy day fund. A reserve. Back up. We all have some, or would like some. In case things go sideways, a way to pay some bills in the meantime. If you have assets that would cover a ...

https://jd2718.org/2024/03/28/uft-welfare-fund-nest-egg-bigger-than-most-nests/

At the hearing last Thursday… (oh there’s a lot to write, but I won’t)… the UFT’s lawyer was there… Alan Klinger… sitting with… the lawyers for the City… sitting with those who ...

https://jd2718.org/2024/03/26/the-company-you-keep/

I turned 60 a month ago. Made me smile. I used the day and the days immediately before and after to celebrate. Not sure what I was celebrating, in particular, but celebration seemed in order. Whe...

https://jd2718.org/2024/03/06/60/

Huge civil rights protest, half a million, 60 years ago. And some of you might want to say, “but the March on Washington was sixty and a half years ago – and it was a quarter million” – w...

https://jd2718.org/2024/02/07/new-york-citys-hidden-history-freedom-day/

This is a post about questions that do harm, but do not make sense. Does your dog bite? Really? No. Here’s my question. “Can you help me find my bicycle?” “I don’t know, what does it lo...

https://jd2718.org/2024/01/31/does-your-dog-bite/

After wasting tens of millions of dollars, Ron DeSantis dropped out the day before New Hampshire. He didn’t contest a single primary (Iowa was caucuses). Republicans have run some pretty awful ...

https://jd2718.org/2024/01/21/no-battle-for-second-place/

The calendar works that way. The shortest day is around December 21. And the length of the day then changes slowly. The days get longer and longer and longer, and the changes happen faster and fa...

https://jd2718.org/2024/01/19/days-are-getting-longer-are-the-weeks/

This was my first full year retired (officially from January 3, 2023). There was so much to do! What did I do? Not do? Learn Math I wanted to take courses. I tried to enroll non-matric at Queens ...

https://jd2718.org/2024/01/18/review-and-resolutions/

Arthur and I discuss congestion pricing, and drug prices. I actually think what I wrote about congestion pricing was clearer. The point I make here, inelegantly, is that of all the things to go a...

https://jd2718.org/2024/01/09/interview-with-pep-member-tom-sheppard-part-ii/

Want to reduce the number of cars? Take away roads, take away lanes. Want to increase revenue? Raise wealth taxes, luxury taxes, and marginal income tax rates on top earners. Want to avoid bad po...

https://jd2718.org/2024/01/07/feeling-congested-pricings-not-the-answer-repost/

January 3, 2023 I officially retired. So it kind of makes sense to look back from January 3, 2024.  So lets’ go for some highlights: Highlights January 3. I officially retired. I was on a cru...

https://jd2718.org/2024/01/03/2023-looking-back/

I only got to New York City in 1984, so I don’t know all the history. But tuition increases were threatened in 1989, and there were a wave of protests and campus takeovers, and the increases we...

https://jd2718.org/2023/12/27/fighting-tuition-increases-at-cuny-back-in-the-day/

This spring, every chapter in the United Federation of Teachers will hold elections. In each school, a chapter leader will be elected to a three year term. In some schools para reps will be elect...

https://jd2718.org/2023/12/26/uft-retired-teachers-chapter-election-coming-this-spring/

True Story In the Spring of 2021 a story leaked So, is this crazy retirees who hate the UFT and are trying to impede progress? And the UFT leadership (Mulgrew, Murphy, Unity Caucus) are just out ...

https://jd2718.org/2023/12/25/a-simple-way-to-understand-the-uft-healthcare-conflict/

I don’t have a good puzzle for you today, and it’s about time for a little math, so I’m making one up. Or working on it. Weird thing about puzzles – you can make up a puzzle that someone ...

https://jd2718.org/2023/12/24/help-me-create-a-puzzle/