Ken Girardin

Fellow, @ManhattanInst

Individual freedom, empiricism, infants, innovation and Instant Pot.

Primary sources please. All opinions my own.

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

I reviewed NY's data-center "moratorium" so you don't have to. The bottom line: it's not just a one-year delay for the biggest facilities. It's an open-ended mess that would create permanent obstacles for building even relatively small data processors.

https://t.co/osT2IfyxiQ

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

@ZachReports crashbotage

[Jeff @DeGironimo]

Tbf, paying a boatload for projects truly is part of the “historic character of the building”

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

@CassellGuardYT In real terms, a few have, in part because gas displaced coal. Louisiana for one had below-inflation growth.

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

What happened to NY electricity prices after 2019?

[Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand @gillibrandny]

Small businesses across New York City had to turn off their AC in 90-degree heat just to afford skyrocketing energy bills.

New Yorkers are struggling because of Trump’s reckless war and costly tariffs.

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

It "sounds familiar" because it's a doctrine NYS pioneered under Gov. David Paterson in 2010.

[Governor Hochul Press Office @NYGovPress]

Hmmm this sounds familiar 🤔

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

@foster_type It's a sub because she's eating it west of Danbury, otherwise it's a grinder.

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

@JonCampbellNY

[Against Narrative @3RenChengHu]

I see a lot of people describing Social Security benefit cuts as "changing the bargain," but this is wrong. The rules that have been in place for decades explicitly require that benefits be cut to a level that can be paid with SS tax revenues once the trust fund runs out.

The retirees calling for taxes to be raised above the tax rate that they paid on their own wages in order to avoid the legally mandated cuts are the ones trying to change the bargain for their own benefit.

[Gino Fanelli @GinoFanelli]

The New York State attorney general's office appears to have purchased and put on display a vintage Crosman pellet gun at its gun buyback in Rochester today

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

Neat!

[Robert Bryce @pwrhungry]

What happens when a blackout hits the Florida Keys? They have to do what grid operators call a black start. I recently visited the Keys Energy Generating Facility on Stock Island to see how they do it. As you’ll see in this five-minute mini-documentary, they start with a 2-megawatt diesel-fired engine and gradually add more capacity until they can fire up their large gas turbines. In all, the facility has 105 MW of capacity, all of which runs on diesel fuel. The power plant is owned by the Florida Municipal Power Agency and is operated by Keys Energy Services, a municipal utility which provides electricity to Key West and the lower Florida Keys. I love seeing big iron. I particularly like visiting power plants and seeing how they work. Many thanks to my good friend at FMPA, Jacob Williams, and to Lynne Tejada and Robbie Berger at Keys Energy for coordinating my visit.

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[Henry Rosoff @HenryRosoff]

BREAKING:
Federal and NY State authorities are raiding several adult daycares around NYC suspected of Medicaid fraud including money laundering according to Governor Kathy Hochul.
This is a developing story from @pix11news.
#nyc #medicaid

[Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul]

Not happening.

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

No, he can't go first.

It's a collectivist action problem.

[Grover Norquist @GroverNorquist]

The whole world is watching Mr. kirby
You can Write the check

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

@jordanmcgillis I've never been there, and I've never met them, but my word, am I proud of them.

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

@JonCampbellNY No other state does it the way NY does, and a big part of why Massachusetts blows the doors off NY for outcomes is that the MA governor picks (and unpicks) the state ed board.

[Judge Glock @judgeglock]

The claim that "property taxes mean you don't own your own home" has become ubiquitous in some conservative circles. The argument has been wildly successful despite being obviously incorrect. Me in @politico:

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

@coreycyber Connecticut is doing its best to. High electricity costs, $17/hour min wage, toxic housing policy, and a belief that DC will keep ignoring multi-trillion deficits to keep overpaying for defense.

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[John Craven @johncraven1]

HAPPENING NOW: This Black Hawk helicopter can fly without a pilot

@Sikorsky in #Stratford is showing it off this morning

What this could mean for wars like Iran and Ukraine— today on @News12CT

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

CT's employment data have been very noisy since COVID, with some big revisions. Tough to square the jump in unemployment with both private and nonfarm jobs growing faster than they were a year ago.

[Ken Girardin @PolicyEngineer]

Whoa.

[BLS-Labor Statistics @BLS_gov]

September jobless rates down in 5 states; payroll jobs up in 2 states, down in 1 #BLSData https://t.co/igSZSkmYCD