The original job of the sheriff was to protect the rights of the people.
The Declaration of Independence was a statement of British common law from the Magna Carta.

I would say Gov’t has an interest in raising minimum wage beacause it can then extract more payroll tax (social security) from the worker and the employer thus kicking the can a little furthur down the road.

Weather underground has an app called Storm. It’s all we use for tornado warnings and it rocks. Tell it where home is and it alerts you to what ever setting you want. Custom map settings too.

SCHOOL STANDARDIZED TESTS

We just went through this in Arizona (AZ MERIT). I decided to conduct an experiment and have my kids gather intel for me.

I read all about the testing process and nefarious obfuscation and secrecy, as well as the personal information gathering and opting out, etc. I wanted to know more so I prepped my kids with those exact if/then scenarios Jack talked about and here are the results.

High School – paper test, 2 days, no personal info gathered (only name/school). Test was fairly benign, lame general questions asked about literature/essay writing. My son actually had fun answering with silly rambling stories that read like a Mel Brooks movie.

Middle School – computer based test, still going on 4 weeks later due to technical difficulties. No personal/biometric info (name/school, obscure serial number but not SSN). Fairly general Q/A about history, math, literature, English.

Conclusion: I don’t doubt the hype and fear over the malicious nature of the test or its secrecy, however both my kids encountered none of that. Maybe it’s like the census – mostly benign but a few of them require the in-depth info gathering. Either way, mine know better than to acknowledge any data mining attempts and to come home and give me an AAR on what the school does that’s out of the ordinary.

I do the exact thing you said to do with setting prices in a business, set my labor, then add a margin over my own labor. Begin with the end in mind, when I hire somebody to do the work I do, it’s already in my formulas.
Studying business in my shit job broke life days is so freaking paying off.

One thing I’m seeing though, based on what the internet tells me prices should be for projects like I do in my area, is the landscaping companies that do shit work apparently run on thin margins.

Ps- I got $10k in more work signed up for, with another $12k prospect that I’m pretty sure is already sold, and I had to turn off my advertising because I’m already out through May.
Almost like the things you teach here, online marketing, positivity, business sense, hard work, freaking work.

I’m confused as well. I think an example with real numbers would make it all clear.

Air pruning pots are ideal for trees to transplant, didn’t know if thought of that as an option. Pots aren’t cheap but are reuseable.

For the weather app, I use RADARScope. I think it cost me about $7, but it does have most of what you are looking for. No torcon, but it does map the watches, warnings and gives trajectory info for storm cells. There are also hash marks that correspond to 15 minute increments. It is good for estimating when you need to seek shelter. It also has a tie to your phone GPS. When you drive, you can use it to select the best path through our spring storms here in TX. I almost never buy an app, but after using this for a year, we got it for my wife too.