Over at the Austin Post there are two great pieces on the budget by contributor Marius. In one of them, Marius provides interesting evidence that our police expenditure is not optimal for response times relative to peer cities. In another, Marius makes the case for privatizing Austin utilities. Marius concludes …
[MORE]Austin Contrarian with how discussions of projections and "regression" seemed to be unfolding.
As I anticipated, the demand modeling uses linear regression of one independent variable: population. However, to my surprise, the r-squared is high. For example, the sole population independent variable explains about 75% of the variation in peak …
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Austin Contrarian was kind enough to post post. This moment is great. We need our public servants to be using these concepts to get better answers. It completely warmed my heart.
Unfortunately, her main point about regression - at least how …
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After a deluge of public testimony, the Austin City Council took a midnight vote on the motion to hire a construction manager for the first phase of WTP4.
Council member Spelman made a motion to delay the vote two weeks to get clarification on information disputed at the hearing. Council …
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The Chamber of Commerce is for. They argue that without the plant, there will be risk of water service disruption. They are also for additional water conservation and reclamation.
The Statesman Editorial Board hedges its bets and argues for the selection of a general contractor but doesn't offer a full-throated …
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