The Standells – Dirty Water
Seemed like a good song to be playing on the Boston Tea Party day. That said, the water quality is a lot better in Boston thanks to them building the deep-water sewage pipe, which spreads the nutrients from the sewers farther out in the sea, and I doubt the curfew the song was written back about in the mid-1960s is still around.
Ice Limbs
Parked
In 2020 Census, Big Efforts in Some States. In Others, Not So Much. – The New York Times
Next month, California will uncork a $187 million campaign to prod its nearly 40 million residents to participate in the 2020 census. Neighborhoods across the state have been computer-ranked by how likely residents are to fill out census forms. Custom marketing campaigns are being focus-grouped. Nonprofit organizations have been showered with grants to boost response in hard-to-count areas.
Texas has a campaign, too — a shoestring campaign. Although the state’s 29 million residents make it second in population only to California, the Texas Legislature has declined to spend any money to see that they are counted. A volunteer corps of civic groups, philanthropies, local governments and others are trying to fill the breach.