Ok, so a week later and I haven't posted about writing. Lousy way to stay accountable. This week has been off, and to be honest, I have been productive, but not with regards to word output. I haven't gotten any start on my actual goals either. So here's a reminder that I should be working on comprehensive exam preparation more directly, and prewriting like a fiend.
That being said, I was looking around a web site on public laws and stumbled upon a set of agreements between states for fire protection. I know that the federal government has been horrible about funding anything but suppression, and underfunding that when it does. (Learned that $2.2 billion was transferred from prevention and mitigation programs to suppression between 2002 and 2009). Well, states are apparently trying to engage in some collective action to distribute risk. Not sure what these are yet, but it is quite interesting. There is definitely variation in these agreements, and they go back to the 1950s at the earliest. Notably three have been formed since the 1980s and one was formed as recently as 2007.
The fact is that these have not been written about at all it seems. They are not collaboratives, they are states engaging in collective action outside of the "hierarchy" of traditional cooperative federalism. I think there might be something here.
Today: 381
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