3:00 - Local control and California's housing programs The Rise of the Single-Family Home (The Daily by the New York Times) 27:25 - Strong Towns podcast on customer service What Customer Service Should Mean for a City (Strong Towns Podcast) 46:20 - Quick return to California 4630 - reels clip 57:40 - Cities preparing for recession US Cities are Preparing for Recession (Bloomberg) US Cities Prepare for Recession (Fortune, paywall) All the (Unemployed) Young Dudes (The Fifth Column podcast)...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Creed's Thanksgiving Day performance, November 2001 The Four Chords of Pop Music Why does the Four Chord Pop Song sound so good? (clean) Axis of Awesome - 4 Chord Song (explicit) NYT Daily - The Rise of the Single Family Home Strong Towns Podcast - What Customer Service Should Mean for a City...
Oct 12, 2022•57 min
Pat and Chad talk about what it means for cities to be profitable, and why it matters.
Sep 23, 2022•55 min
RIP Queen Elizabeth II Tennis serves vs Baseball pitches www.humanbenchmark.com Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley's recent interview "How Dense is Too Dense" in Fort Worth's Crockett Row? Fifth Circuit strikes down restrictive short-term rental rules...
Sep 09, 2022•49 min
The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score (NYTimes article) The Rise of Workplace Surveillance (The Daily podcast by NYT about the article we discuss)
Aug 26, 2022•47 min
Analysis: Property tax relief that doesn’t lower your tax bill
Apr 22, 2022•46 min
American Consumers Are Starting to Hit Their Breaking Point Bachelor Tax Why Doesn’t California Solve Its Housing Crisis By Building Some New Cities? Grapevine council grills manager over ex-staff’s spending abuses: ‘We have to know more’ Plano City Council Rap...
Mar 31, 2022•42 min
Why the 2020 census has 9 fake people in a single house (Full Stack Economics) Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS Resolver What is a VPN? (Forbes) How Target figured out a teen girl was pregnant before her father did (Forbes)...
Mar 10, 2022•48 min
GASB 96
Nov 16, 2021•56 min
Comptroller's October sales tax announcement Austin's Prop A Ryan Peterson's port-related Tweetstorm Zach Klein's guerrilla speed bump installation Tweetstorm...
Nov 03, 2021•49 min
UMANT Strong Towns event (Sep 24, 2021) TML Conference Houston (Oct 6-8, 2021)
Aug 18, 2021•51 min
In this episode, we assess the state of post-Covid sales tax recovery in Texas, talk about proposals to replace property taxes with a value added tax, and wrap up with a discussion about designing public spaces to delight.
Jul 14, 2021•41 min
Chuck Marohn Tweet thread National Infrastructure Bank Coalition GFOA - Cash is King "We have no idea who the good guy is" - Y'allitics Podcast
Jun 12, 2021•50 min
Beer? Money? States and cities offer incentives to get vaccinated (NYT) HB 4072 in-depth (ZacCast) HB 4072 Committee Version State sales tax revenue update for April 2021...
May 04, 2021•40 min
HB 4072 (and the totally worthless/misleading fiscal note ) Is it worth the time? - XKCD The Bonnen Tapes episode - ZacCast
Apr 09, 2021•52 min
Comparing apples and printers (March 2021 ZacTax Roundup) Signup for the ZacTax Roundup Editor's note : I'm very sorry that Patrick has subjected you, our dear listener, to another forced attempt at ridiculing the University of Texas on what is otherwise an extremely valuable podcast for local public managers. While I did my best to keep the discussion geared toward local government issues, if you don't wish to hear our friendly bickering about Texas vs Texas A&M, you are welcome to skip fro...
Apr 01, 2021•54 min
Texas cities have been fighting the state legislature over property tax revenue caps for years, but what if they've just been a symptom of the underlying problem? In this episode, we dig further into the problem with the commercial appraisal mechanisms, how they've shifted the tax burden to residential homeowners, and how the legislative response to that phenomenon continues to make the situation worse.
Mar 17, 2021•33 min
You could report illegal parking in NYC -- and get paid to do it, under new bill New lights, warning signs alert for sewage overflows into the Conestoga River Is Texas’s Affordable Housing Endangered? Denton Files Suit Against ERCOT Over ‘Illegal and Unconstitutional' Raid...
Mar 12, 2021•49 min
Texas governor lifts mask mandate and allows businesses to open at 100% capacity, despite health officials' warnings NYT Daily: Odessa, Part 1
Mar 03, 2021•35 min
Student Sells $80k Pokémon Card Collection To Pay For University
Feb 12, 2021•37 min
Time Codes 01:47 Statewide overview 07:25 DFW area 08:45 Houston area 10:42 San Antonio area 12:22 Mcallen area 13:25 Midland/Odessa 17:30 Corpus Christi area 18:10 El Paso area 18:48 Amarillo area 19:47 Lubbock area 22:20 Brownsville 23:00 Kerrville/Fredericksburg 23:35 Austin/Round Rock 24:45 Killeen/Temple 25:25 Bryan/College Station 25:52 Abilene 26:49 San Angelo 26:52 Waco 27:18 Brenham 27:30 Wrap up Valeri Williams freezes during weather forecast...
Feb 11, 2021•39 min
Gov. Greg Abbott tells supporters he's considering placing law enforcement for central Austin under state control August ZacTax Roundup A Christmas Tree Grows in Colorado...
Dec 16, 2020•47 min
In a special, barely-related-to-city-government episode, Cody Janicek joins us from Prague to talk Covid, living in Europe as an American, growing up with Chad, and college rivalries.
Nov 27, 2020•31 min
TeePublic Google's 3-Word Plan to Help Employees Avoid Burnout Is So Simple You Should Steal It Death to the open floor plan
Nov 25, 2020•31 min
Be sure to join us at www.salestaxgameday.com for your chance to play and possibly win some swag predicting sales tax collections for December 2020. 00:00 - Intro and Sales Tax Gameday winner 04:25 - DFW 09:15 - Houston area 14:10 - San Antonio area 16:00 - McAllen area 16:30 - Corpus Christi area 17:50 - El Paso area 19:45 - Midland/Odessa area 21:10 - Amarillo area 22:05 - Lubbock area 22:43 - Brownsville area 27:14 - Tyler/Jacksonville area 27:58 - Victoria/Port Lavaca area 28:30 - Kerrville/...
Nov 12, 2020•44 min
Texas is on the cusp of another COVID-19 surge. Is the state better prepared to handle it? How Pandemics Spurred Cities to Make More Green Space for People This Site Knows if Your Local McDonald's Ice Cream Machine Is Broken In a Land of Cul-de-Sacs, the Street Grid Stages a Comeback The amazing route diversity of street grids The power of gridded streets (contains image of grocery store designed by a traffic engineer) Angry French beekeeper delivers more than 1000 'murder hornets' to local gove...
Oct 30, 2020•34 min
00:25 - TeamZac Projections 07:42 - DFW Metroplex 12:42 - Midland/Odessa 13:55 - Corpus Christi 15:35 - Houston Area 19:20 - San Antonio 21:14 - Austin 25:56 - East Texas 27:08 - Amarillo 28:20 - El Paso 29:26 - McAllen/Edinburg 30:50 - Lubbock 31:32 - Victoria/Port Lavaca 32:12 - Brownsville 34:04 - Kerrville/Fredericksburg 34:45 - Bryan/College Station 36:55 - Waco 37:25 - San Angelo 38:00 - Sherman/Denison 38:22 - Nacogdoches 39:00 - Shining Star & Wrap Up...
Oct 07, 2020•49 min
Signup for our free monthly newsletter, the ZacTax Roundup 0:43 - AirBNB pilots a new City Portal Airbnb’s Data ‘Portal’ Promises a Better Relationship With Cities 08:06 - Did cities defund the police in FY21? ‘We Have Not Defunded Anything’: Big Cities Boost Police Budgets August 2020 ZacTax Roundup 15:06 - Weekly Covid tests for San Antonio schools San Antonio billionaire wants to test every student in the city for COVID-19 23:18 - More gold from Mike Leach Video from the press conference...
Sep 29, 2020•38 min
02:48 - DFW 06:54 - Houston 10:45 - San Antonio 13:26 - McAllen area 13:35 - Corpus Christi area 15:13 - Austin Area 18:06 - Bryan/College Station 20:52 - Waco 22:18 - Abilene 23:16 - San Angelo 23:25 - Midland/Odessa 25:52 - Lubbock 26:40 - Amarillo 27:35 - El Paso 28:11 - Brownsville 29:10 - East Texas 30:04 - Sherman/Denison 31:00 - Removal of internet sales tax 33:30 - Wrap up Internet Tax Freedom Act (of 2016)...
Sep 10, 2020•41 min
The Last Dance (Netflix) Drum Corps Endurance Study (YouTube) Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson (Amazon) Nick Saban on team chemistry
Sep 04, 2020•48 min
