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Apr 30 โข 8 tweets โข 2 min read
We just released our latest report on ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด in #Morgantown #WestVirginia. Have a look if local economic development here in #Appalachia is interesting. bit.ly/3Qq8tfQ
@MorgantownGov, @MgtnPartnership, & @downtownmgtn asked for comparisons for Blacksburg, Charlottesville, VA, & Asheville, NC - a mix of peer and aspirational cities. The analysis will guide #localgov #publicpolicy around incentivizing and attracting businesses to the downtown.
Apr 10 โข 4 tweets โข 1 min read
Doing a project for the local community - simple but important demographics for #publicpolicy around incentivizing #econdevelopment and #businessinvestment. Data from the @uscensusbureau ACS for 2022 by block group. First map is population estimates. Full report on the way.
The second map is median age.
Dec 5, 2023 โข 5 tweets โข 1 min read
Happy ๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐ฆ for all who celebrate this constitutional moment. You may think me playful and devious, but Prohibition's repeal teaches us a very important lesson in governance. 1/5
Constitutional adjustments are for expanding self governance and establishing the rules of the game we play as partners and colleagues in the democratic endeavor, nay adventure. 2/5
Nov 8, 2023 โข 10 tweets โข 2 min read
Proud to work on this report on #WestVirginia's IDEA data - reporting for children with developmental disabilities on independent education plans. A๐งตabout #data, #democracy, and services for #families and #children. #edpolicy #education #datascience #disabilities @WVUPolicyRes
Our state and #local agencies are often caught in the tradeoff of providing #data that checks federal reporting requirements versus fostering analysis. This is not a feature of our educational systems and administrative apparatus. It is a problem en
Oct 11, 2023 โข 4 tweets โข 1 min read
I am excited to start a new @NSF-funded project that examines the interdiction of the #drugcrisis in #WestVirginia. #opioids #PublicHealth #appalachia Read more about our project below.
wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2023/1โฆ
With Gordon Smith @WVUPublicHealth, Henry Brownstein and Jim Nolan @SOCA_WVU, Ankit Bansal @binghamtonu and @JeanPhi74808687 @UMNews, we integrate data on #LawEnforcement, #PublicHealth outcomes, and #localgovernment expenditures to examine supply/demand side policy mixes.
Jun 12, 2023 โข 6 tweets โข 3 min read
Really pleased that our Roundtable on ๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐๐ฏ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ด is up @Journal_BPA. Thanks to @billresh and the rest of the journal's team! doi.org/10.30636/jbpa.โฆ
In it, @herschelfthomas and I discuss "look-up" data systems versus those built for analysis and integration.
If you follow me, you'll know that earlier this year I came home to #WestVirginia and @WestVirginiaU@WVUEberly to start the Institute for Policy Research and Public Affairs. Our Twitter account is above, and we'd appreciate a follow.
Our account will cover research, data, and issues important to the state of #WestVirginia and the broader region of #Appalachia, but will touch on issues important nationally in areas like ours.
Jan 5, 2022 โข 8 tweets โข 6 min read
@Appalachia100 and @theintercept asked me to discuss social and political transition in #WestVirginia. A ๐งต
What drove a West Virginia Democrat to storm the Capitol on January 6? interc.pt/3HJbD7X by @GWOTTrapLordz, twitter.com/PNickCurran, @akela_lacy
An important thread in this documentary that is often lost in discussions of these transitions is that they owe in part to a failure on the #Left to message and frame (a failure I personally think describes the last 40 years of #DemocraticParty politics).
