Sentences with phrase «wonks at»

As The Josh just learned in Wayne County, Pa., the best laid plans of fractavists can get a serendipitous assist from an unlikely source — petroleum reserve engineers — like the wonks at Netherland Sewell that do estimates on proven reserves in an oil and gas field.

The liberal think tank that hired me focused on state issues, so I had nothing to do with the project that was consuming D.C. wonks at the time: a once - a-decade reauthorization of the mammoth federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would become the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

Mark Littlewood is the former LibDem head - of - spin who has become the chief wonk at the venerable Institute of Economic Affairs, the directorship of which comes with a (big for wonkland) # 100,000 pay package.

Not exact matches

Kevin Bai and Xuan «Joe» Zhou at Kettering University work in labs and in battery industry research, but they talk like car shoppers than laboratory wonks.

As a side point, perhaps interesting to monetary wonks here at OTE, the title's insistence on the 1993 vintage of the Taylor rule is out of step with much research on the variables, values, and coefficients that would go into such a rule today.

A possible political career for Sandberg has been mentioned a lot before, too — especially since she has been a Washington wonk before (she worked as chief of staff to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in the last Clinton administration before moving to Silicon Valley to work at Google).

Over at Breitbart News, the lodestar of the Trump administration, readers variously dubbed it «Ryancare,» «Obamacare 2.0,» «Soroscare» or, for the wonks, «unEarned Income Tax Credit II.»

I got on this idea today after reading a post by Brad Johnson (@climatebrad) originally at his site, The Wonk Room, -LSB-...]

Although the film has national reach, Lunch Line is a Chicago story through and through: at the post-screening discussion, the co-directors, Michael Graziano and Ernie Park, found themselves reunited with several of the food - service experts, policy wonks, corporate executives and community activists depicted in their film.

Again, if you had actually been at the meeting and interviewed those members present, you would find most were not political wonks, but local community activists, community board members, PTA members, green advocates, housing advocates, and the like.

Social media strategists like myself are spending more and more time wearing «data wonk» as our self - identity, and at times it can all be overwhelming.

The wonks of Westminster scratch their heads at opinion polls that show Labour and Conservatives neck and neck.

Clinton became governor again at 34, and Hillary forever stepped into the spotlight as a political wonk in her own right, spearheading efforts on education reform (previously, Hillary's feminist, Midwestern background, lack of accent, and thick - rimmed glasses did not sit well with Southern Democrats).

Tim Wu is a policy wonk, a professor at Columbia University and a serious player in Silicon Valley.

Over the weekend, Daily Freeman correspondent William J. Kemble catapulted to fame among political wonks nationwide when he and Congressman Maurice Hinchey came close to fisticuffs at a Saugerties candidates» forum on Thursday night.

In his place, at the darkest of hours, there appeared unto Labour a new kind of leader: the Southern lay preacher, his soul transmogrified into the body of a wonk.

At a breakfast in March, Moskowitz said she was a «little bit less of a policy wonk than I used to be,» and declined to comment on Governor Andrew Cuomo's plans to take over failing schools, saying she hadn't seen the specifics.

You'd think the politics blog would cover this angle; instead I found it over at at the econ / wonk blog:

At least a few people think a lasting boost in the regular appropriations for some science agencies is a real possibility, according to a well - informed Washington observer we'll call Polly C. Wonk.

And at a time when many policy wonks and politicians assert that any policy is flawed, even discriminatory and unjust, if it doesn't solve all the problems posed by the worst imaginable case (homeless disabled kid, addicted single parent, limited English), she shows that it's genuinely possible to devise policies and programs that alter the life prospects of thousands of very needy kids.

States do an uneven job of flagging troubled schools, but even the most self - impressed Beltway wonk should by now recognize that Washington is no better at this task.

This, in turn, points out a reality that neither the Obama Administration nor Beltway wonks such as Petrilli fail to admit: That No Child has been the single - biggest advance in education policy, both at the federal level and among states and local governments, since the Defense Education Act of 1958.

Certainly you can expect the likes of Manhattan Institute wonk Max Eden (who, for some reason, was testifying at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on school safety convened a month after the Parkland Massacre) to make big hay of the Maryland Republican's complaints.

Also on the list are Dale Russakoff's tome on Newark's school reform efforts, a Parent Power book from Tom Vander Ark and his team at Getting Smart, and a tome on education governance from famed education policy wonk Paul Hill.

«Principals and schools didn't seek innovation status to make wholesale changes,» lead researcher Kelci Price told a crowded room of lawmakers, education policy wonks and others during a legislative briefing Wednesday at CEA headquarters.

The Academy is comprised of a diverse cadre of prominent leaders from virtually every primary sector of the education community: parents, teachers, principals, superintendents, state departments of education, school boards, PTA organizations, policy wonks, early childhood professionals, advocates, deans and professors at education schools, education columnists, afterschool programs, researchers, school nurses, school facilities managers, philanthropists, visionaries, and pioneers.

What is good design for a policy wonk, is not a good design for a parents and policy officials,» said John Bailey, a former Bush White House official, who now wears several hats in the education policy world, including vice president at the Foundation for Excellence in Education.

(Underscoring how divisive this issue is among right - leaning education policy wonks, take a look at this post on Jay P. Greene's Blog, where Jim Stergios takes issue with Porter - Magee's arguments.)

The ever - reliable edu - wonks over at Bellwether Education Partners, along with the trusted folks at Collaborative for Student Success (CSS), have put together a comprehensive review...

Liberal wonks, on the other hand, have claimed it's actually a paternalistic program at odds with the traditional Republican desire for less - intrusive government, since it relies on providers who make decisions for beneficiaries.

[Nov. 23, 4:47 p.m. Updated Brad Johson, who blogs at the Wonk Room, used the new «Climate Rapid Response Team» to test some of Lomborg's assertions and found lots of problems.]

Visit the foundation's Weekly Wonk blog for answers from Sharon E. Burke, an international and energy security analyst, Steve LeVine of Quartz, Daniel Sarewitz, professor of science and society at Arizona State University, and Russell Gold, senior energy reporter at the Wall Street Journal and author of «The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World.»

They will have to justify, at least within the small community of wonks who follow this stuff, what other fundamental elements in their forecast out to 2020 were changed to match the 2020 number.

At the same time, it is still under pressure from centrists and wonks to make climate policy bipartisan, and that pressure will only grow more intense when the number of Republican lawmakers willing to negotiate on climate grows (from its current tiny handful).

As energy wonks across the country gear up for the release of the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) International Energy Outlook (IEO), we here at Oil Change International wanted to be sure everyone is on the same page as we read over the EIA's analysis.

So now the latest strategy is to debate whether or not we should have the IPCC — that ought to keep policy wonks from taking any action for at least another 5 years....

To survive the onslaught of the multi-nationals taking aim at our Industry for «advertising revenue only», government beaurocrats, and public policy wonks, we need to move forward with that Provincial «Super Association Office» for one stop delivering of services to the public and its members and at the same time bringing a new and strong cohesiveness for its members.