Covid resurgence, broken ice cream, street grids, and murder hornets

Show Notes

In what might be our nerdiest episode yet, we talk about the recent surges of Covid-19 and street grids, a software engineer who hacked McDonald's to find out which ice cream machines are broken, a French protest via murder hornets, and more.

• Texas is on the cusp of another COVID-19 surge. Is the state better prepared to handle it?
  • How Pandemics Spurred Cities to Make More Green Space for People
• This Site Knows if Your Local McDonald's Ice Cream Machine Is Broken
• In a Land of Cul-de-Sacs, the Street Grid Stages a Comeback
  • The amazing route diversity of street grids
  • The power of gridded streets (contains image of grocery store designed by a traffic engineer)
• Angry French beekeeper delivers more than 1000 'murder hornets' to local government building
• Alexander Hamilton: The father of American economic development incentives

Creators and Guests

Host

Chad Janicek

Former city manager, current local government nerd. I build fun stuff that helps cities make better decisions @zactax

Host

Patrick Lawler

It's all for nothing if you don't have freedom.

What is ZacCast?

The official podcast for local government nerds, from the folks behind ZacTax. We talk about everything from sales tax to city management to college sports, and bring you stories from the front lines of local government administration.