Chris Van Es

Econ. Biz. Gov't. Sports. Views are my own.

[Chris Van Es @ChrisVE]

@BarredinDC I went. I’m a fan. I hope it succeeds.

Some nits to pick around the edges, but love the concept and what it signifies in Union Station’s comeback.

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@RefObserver17 Bingo. 100% baited Boone.

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@WashProbs This is horrible.

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Good read!

[Carlos Barragán @CarlosBarraganT]

Spain Celebrates Both a Soccer Win and a Sense of Wider Success

By winning the world championship, Spain’s team have bolstered the sense that — amid a broader cultural, economic and sports renaissance — something promising is happening in Spain, and that to be here now is to be in the right place, at the right time. @nytimes

https://t.co/Nt7dQ0NojI

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@ManagerTactical Yes of course. Took a team in shambles mid-cycle and took them to the highest number of wins in a World Cup ever.

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Hard truths.

[Vera Bergengruen @VeraMBergen]

The Europeans have discovered the Dulles people-mover

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[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

this is an NBA classic

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@MarchMadnessMBB

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Spring in DC is really quite great.

[Randy Clarke @wmataGM]

Great day all over DC today! @WNCathedral Flower Mart, Around the 🌎Embassy Day & a packed rocking @AdMoBID Porchfest…plus @BrunoMars @ Northwest, @Nationals at home, @UFLDefenders @AudiField etc!

We live in an amazing place, hope everyone gets out and has a good weekend.

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@PeteThamel @GoodmanHoops The answer is still no thank you.

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@PoPville Awful news.

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@em3dia Yes, yes you are.

[Forbes @Forbes]

UW-Madison is one of the #ForbesNewIvies, recognized for its $1.3 billion research engine and elite career outcomes. With 144 undergraduate majors and a legacy of 20 Nobel Prize winners, the Badgers remain a top target for the nation’s leading employers.
Read more: https://t.co/PhlACbNpPx

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No thank you.

[Sports Business Journal @SBJ]

NCAA leadership is expected to finalize an expansion of the men’s and women’s tournaments to 76 teams soon after this year’s tournament 🏀

The proposal would add eight games to the First Four, with 24 teams playing in an opening round before advancing into the main bracket.

Via @YahooSports | https://t.co/p64Ssx3W8a

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UConn winning this is historic highway robbery. Unbelievable.

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Do not agree with this.

[Kalshi Film @Kalshi_Film]

JUST IN: Odds Michael B Jordan wins best actor at the Oscars reach record high of 59%

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LETSGOOOOOOOOO!

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Brings back fond memories. The 10 letters a day were sacred in White House Correspondence. Went to POTUS every night. And he did everything he could to respond to each. @elisaslow wrote a great book on this.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

The history books quietly bypassed is that Barack Obama, during the most pressure-saturated nights of his presidency, would retreat alone to the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House residence — not to strategize, not to take calls, but to handwrite personal letters to ten ordinary American citizens every single night, a practice he maintained with almost monastic devotion across all eight years, selecting the letters himself from the 40,000 that arrived daily at the White House, and his longtime correspondence director Fiona Reese confirmed that Obama would often weep privately while reading certain letters, folding them carefully before writing responses so personally detailed and emotionally present that recipients frequently described the experience of receiving them as the most significant moment of their lives, with one Ohio steelworker writing back to say that Obama's letter had physically stopped him from making a decision that would have permanently altered his family's future. What makes this practice almost unbearably moving is the detail that surfaced later — Obama never used a computer for these letters, always a black felt-tip pen, always legal yellow paper first as a draft, always rewritten onto White House stationery by hand a second time, because he believed, as he told historian Doris Kearns Goodwin in a rare private conversation later recounted in her 2018 work, that the physical act of pressing pen to paper forced a quality of attention that typing simply could not replicate, a philosophy rooted in his years as a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago from 1992 to 2004 where he developed the conviction that democracy only functions when its leaders remain genuinely, uncomfortably close to the specific gravity of individual human suffering rather than processing it from behind the insulating distance of institutions and screens."

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@united Sent.

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.@united could not manifest a more on brand, tone deaf ai generated response to feedback about their product. It’s hard to avoid feeling like airlines don’t value their customers when they so regularly show that they, in fact, do not value their customers.

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@united Offering to “look into it” after a DM asking for “assistance” still misses the mark. And i wish i had a nickel for every time an airline said they were “deeply sorry” while doing nothing to deliver better a better product in the future.