Piseco Lake Through the Trees
This is from near where the parking area is for the trailhead to Panther Mountain / Echo Cliffs.
Taken on Saturday April 24, 2010 at Piseco Lake.
I was noticing the other day that the last time New York State did a complete aerial survey of Albany County was in 2017
I was noticing the other day that the last time New York State did a complete aerial survey of Albany County was in 2017. It seems likely that they will be taking a new set of orthophotos of county and much of the Capital Region this April, as they typically survey each region of the state every 3-4 years during the month of April before the leaves are on the trees.
… It should be interesting to see how land use has changed during the past four years locally. 🚜 🌲 🐮 🏭 🏢 🏡
Across the Lake
Marshy Floodplain
The Half-Truth on Infrastructure at the Heart of the American Jobs Plan
Here’s a quiz to test your understanding: The American Jobs Plan states that “public domestic investment as a share of the economy has fallen by more than 40 percent since the 1960s.” Does this mean:
Here’s a quiz to test your understanding: The American Jobs Plan states that “public domestic investment as a share of the economy has fallen by more than 40 percent since the 1960s.” Does this mean:
a. The U.S. spends less money on infrastructure today than it did in the 1960s.
b. When adjusted for inflation, the U.S. spends less money on infrastructure today than it did in the 1960s.
c. The U.S. spends more money on infrastructure today than it did in the 1960s, even when adjusted for inflation, but that amount has not kept up with the size of the economy.
d. The U.S. spends more money on infrastructure today than it did in the 1960s, even when adjusted for inflation, even as a portion of the size of the economy, but all that old infrastructure is depreciating more quickly than we are increasing new infrastructure spending.
Trumpism – Wikipedia
Trumpism is a term for the political ideology, style of governance, political movement and set of mechanisms for acquiring and keeping power that are associated with Donald Trump, and his political base. Though Trumpism is sufficiently complex to overwhelm any single framework of analysis, it has been called an American political variant of the far-right and of the national-populist and neo-nationalist sentiment seen in multiple nations worldwide from the late 2010s to the early 2020s. Some have deemed Trumpism as akin to fascism. Most historians argue that this is an inaccurate use of the term, pointing out that while there are parallels there are also important dissimilarities. The label "Trumpism" has been applied to conservative–nationalist and national–populist movements in other Western democracies.
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