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Notes from the desk on figures worth checking twice.

Short analyses on public finance, procurement, and the methods we use to keep our numbers honest.

Public Finance

Reading a state budget without losing the thread

A practical walk-through of how allocations move from paper to spend, and where the gaps usually sit.

2026-07-24 6 min read

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Procurement

A look at the strengths and blind spots of public procurement records, with worked examples.

2026-07-30 7 min read

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Methods

A note on reproducibility, and why a reader should be able to redo our arithmetic.

2026-08-05 5 min read

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