TeamZac

A small team of city enthusiasts doing our best to help cities make better decisions.

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2024

The Vacation Episode | Jul 12, 2024

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The kind of problem a city is | May 30, 2024

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Liability Lane | May 17, 2024

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The world's most expensive bathroom | May 1, 2024

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The Doom Loop | Apr 23, 2024

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Amazon lockers, appraisal boards, and zoning reform | Apr 4, 2024

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The episode about nothing | Mar 22, 2024

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The Great Reversals | Mar 7, 2024

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The (audit) adjustment bureau | Feb 22, 2024

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The mo is slow | Jan 25, 2024

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The Gourmet Underwear | Jan 16, 2024

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2023

Retail sales and leases | Dec 14, 2023

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The Holiday Episode | Nov 30, 2023

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The Drive-Through | Nov 16, 2023

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The shrinking savings | Nov 1, 2023

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The Segue | Jul 7, 2023

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The formerly home-ruled 15-minute city | Mar 10, 2023

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The Urban Vitality of Costco | Mar 3, 2023

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2022

The neighborly, the cloudy, the nice, and the naughty | Dec 19, 2022

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The Bicycle | Nov 11, 2022

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The "Why" (with bonus content!) | Oct 25, 2022

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The staff meeting | Oct 12, 2022

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The profitable city | Sep 23, 2022

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I'm your density... I mean, your destiny | Sep 9, 2022

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Meddlers of the world, unite (then cut it out, please) | Aug 26, 2022

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Isn't budgeting so much fun these days? | Apr 22, 2022

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Open Mic Morning | Mar 31, 2022

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Local impacts of Ukraine and the 2020 Census changes | Mar 10, 2022

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2021

Software subscriptions and a stock market for cities | Nov 16, 2021

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A stemwinder on sales tax, staffing, supply chains, speed bumps, and scooters | Nov 3, 2021

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Harry Potter, chess, and resilient communities | Aug 31, 2021

ZacTax Roundup

What to expect when expecting to be a city manager | Aug 18, 2021

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Don't buy AirPods at the airport | Jul 14, 2021

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The sky probably isn't falling, and why a national infrastructure bank isn't helpful | Jun 12, 2021

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Sales Taxes and Covid Vaxxes | May 4, 2021

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Addition by subtraction | Apr 30, 2021

ZacTax Roundup

HB 4072 (and all-time great baseball movies) | Apr 9, 2021

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Dark Stores and Coachless Teams | Apr 1, 2021

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Comparing apples and printers | Mar 30, 2021

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Fighting the wrong fight on property tax reform | Mar 17, 2021

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The one Patrick expects a lot of feedback on | Mar 12, 2021

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Happy Texas Independence (from masks) Day! | Mar 3, 2021

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The best laid schemes | Feb 28, 2021

ZacTax Roundup

Back in the saddle | Feb 12, 2021

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Sales Tax (Post) Gameday - February 2021 | Feb 11, 2021

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2020

Keeping our focus | Dec 31, 2020

ZacTax Roundup

Greg Abbott: City Manager | Dec 16, 2020

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The two Gs | Nov 30, 2020

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Czech yourself before you wreck yourself | Nov 27, 2020

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The "Chad's Mannerisms" episode | Nov 25, 2020

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Sales Tax Gameday - November 2020 | Nov 12, 2020

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Covid resurgence, broken ice cream, street grids, and murder hornets | Oct 30, 2020

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Sometimes everything goes wrong... | Oct 28, 2020

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Sales Tax Gameday - October 2020 | Oct 7, 2020

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Round Robin - From AirBNB to our national treasure, Mike Leach | Sep 29, 2020

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Who tells your story? | Sep 28, 2020

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Sales Tax Gameday - September 2020 | Sep 10, 2020

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The Last Dance | Sep 4, 2020

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Governor Abbott, local control, and the Texas Miracle | Aug 24, 2020

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Dataviz tips and dad jokes | Aug 18, 2020

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Sales Tax Gameday - August 2020 | Aug 12, 2020

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Kevin Shepherd on fiscal sustainability, infrastructure gaps, and the future of development | Aug 10, 2020

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A city used these easy steps to have a productive council meeting and you won't believe what happened next! | Jul 29, 2020

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Covid-19’s impact on Texas sales tax, and how Marketplace Providers saved some cities | Jul 21, 2020

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What's Proptech, and how has Covid affected sales tax? | Jul 11, 2020

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Coming soon | Jun 17, 2020

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VC and ED | May 26, 2020

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#OpenTexas | May 1, 2020

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Budgeting under the cloud of COVID-19 with Kyle Lester | Mar 27, 2020

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SCADA-as-a-service, appraisal mishaps, and time travel | Mar 23, 2020

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James Earp on the local response to COVID-19 | Mar 14, 2020

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Brittney Huff on things you don't learn in grad school (aka TYDLIGS) | Mar 11, 2020

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Lamentations on technology and Disney princesses | Feb 25, 2020

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The future of ZacTax, software spies, and zipper merges | Feb 10, 2020

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Fresh Prince and Strong Towns | Jan 10, 2020

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2019

Single Local Taxes, Rule Changes, and Christmas Conspiracies | Dec 20, 2019

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Robert Hanna - Downtown Redevelopment in Abilene | Dec 16, 2019

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Lifting the auditors' vail | Dec 2, 2019

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The Single Local Tax Rate Episode | Nov 17, 2019

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Mr. Miyagi, Facebook, and Christmas Spite | Nov 13, 2019

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Rework | Nov 8, 2019

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Haters gonna hate (local control) | Oct 31, 2019

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Origins | Oct 29, 2019

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The Trailer | Oct 28, 2019

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