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New York City Pension Watch: Hey, What if We "Delay" the Contributions?
Hey, Mamdani, why don't we "delay" paying your salary for a few years, while we're at it?
 • Mary Pat Campbell
Geeking Out: Census Numbers for Apportionment Released -- Let's Visualize!
NY lost by 89 people. That's quite the thin margin.
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Congressional Mortality Update 2026: RIP, Rep. David Scott, 80
The statistics roll on.
 • Mary Pat Campbell
U.S. Lightning Strike Deaths: First Reported Death in 2026, and Final Count for 2025
Highest count in many years: does it mean anything? (Maybe more people outdoors)
 • Mary Pat Campbell
Tax Day 2026: Meep Files Her 2025 Taxes
The return of SALT! Plus other tax day stories
 • Mary Pat Campbell
Mysterious NASA Deaths! (Or Maybe Not...)
Let's do a few calculations and look at "mysterious" deaths of the past
 • Mary Pat Campbell
April 2026: Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
Screening tips (for those who can use them)
 • Mary Pat Campbell
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Problem Gambling: Addicts, Lotteries, Sports, and Pensions
There's church Bingo... and there's something more toxic in apps now
 • Mary Pat Campbell
The Week in Meep: Palm Sunday Thoughts
St. Matthew Passion, Sumo, and Art!
 • Mary Pat Campbell
STUMP - Meep on public finance, pensions, mortality and more
STUMP - Meep on public finance, pensions, mortality and more
Public finance, pensions, mortality trends from the perspective of Meep (Mary Pat Campbell), a life-annuity actuary. Less frequent topics: data visualization, actuarial politics, literature, opera, and sumo.
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