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(This repeat of the April 27 program is kept in the archives as a source for Apple podcast.)

We’ve entered a recession, and don't know yet how bad it will be. To get some perspective, I talk today with Bob Leland, an expert on municipal finance with the Management Partners consulting firm who began his career in the 1970s. He compares the current downturn to the Great Recession 12 years ago, lists some possible responses, and estimates the size of the revenue loss facing Davis – “it’ll probably be about a 6 to 8 percent loss for the year that will be ending June 30,” with the financial damage concentrated in the last few months.

Read that carefully—the plunge since March has been steep enough to take the results for the entire fiscal year down by 6 percent or more.

On this episode of Meraki Radio- Perspectives, Alonna Shaw returns and we fill the time with poetry and musings thereof. A bit of commentary on animals interspersed, as well as other meanderings.

Words Cited:

"Fool's Gold" by Tim Mathys: https://poets.org/poem/fools-gold

"Part of Eve's Discussion" by Marie Howe: https://poets.org/poem/part-eves-discussion

"Red" by Mary Ruefle: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/153198/red-5e83d38...

"The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45502/the-red-wheelbarrow