We'll keep an eye on it

Sunday, April 17, 2022

We watch new weekly claims for unemployment insurance in California as an indicator of the state of the labor market and the economy. New claims have been creeping up in the past few weeks after falling into the pre-pandemic range. We'll keep an eye on it and hope it's a blip and not the beginning of something.

As always, the latest new claims data are at https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf.

FYI: Snow at a controversial site where (maybe) you wouldn't expect it

Monday, April 18, 2022

We have covered the ongoing controversy in Hawaii about the proposed Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) on top of Mauna Kea in which UC has an involvement. There are other telescopes in use there. But because it's Hawaii, not a place associated with cold weather, you may not know that it sometimes snows at that elevation. Above and below are photo taken yesterday.

Source: https://www.khon2.com/local-news/snow-on-mauna-kea-bi-winter-weatheradvisory/; https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2022/04/17/a-white-easter-sunday-onhawai%CA%BBi-island/.