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2023 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

I’ve been actively seeking out non-binary authors and trying to read print a little more. average read per month: 9.5 average read per week: 2.2 The always-updated booklist, going back to 1997, lives at jessamyn.info/booklist and it has its own RSS feed.

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2022 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. I’m also retiring my “people of color/non-Western” category only because it relies too much on surface impressions/names. average read per month: 12.

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2021 reading list and commentary

Librarian.net

Previous librarian.net summaries: 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , 2011 , 2010 , 2009 , 2007 , 2006 , 2005 , 2004. Here are stats for the books that I finished. average read per month: 9.6. average read per week: 2.2. number read in worst month: 6 (February). number unfinished: 0.

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WMATA is pathetic: of course it belongs to "the public"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In fact, I mention that as an issue a lot in terms of funding.

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Metrorail Silver Line phase two opening this week

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Sixth, and belatedly, that the Silver Line taxed the system's infrastructure in ways that have made degradation of service quality standard practice (" More on Redundancy, engineered resilience, and subway systems: Metrorail failures will increase without adding capacity in the core, " 2016). More network improvements.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

trillion in 2016, which at the time was almost twice the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet and became the largest source of GSE profits. This would be, in essence, an unwinding of the ERCF and a return to approximately the CCF that was officially in place from 2017 to 2019 for setting the average G-fee. Also, the 0.10

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It’s time to talk about a regional tax to help fund Metro (DC area)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Many people make the point that lack of dedicated funding is why the system is in failure mode.

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