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Site Updates.
Launch notes and editorial posture pieces for new tools and case studies on the site.
Launch notes and editorial posture pieces for new tools and case studies on PatrickNeilBradley.com. These are not promotional posts — they are the cover letter for each new piece of work, explaining what it does, what it cannot do, and why it was published.
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Entry 1 of 2 · May 9, 2026
Why I Published the Veteran Livability Index
A note on what the new county-level decision tool is, what it cannot do, and the editorial posture behind putting federal public-domain data on the Foundation's surface. Honest attribution to the upstream CVAI bundle, plain talk about proxy inheritance and vintage drift.
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Entry 2 of 2 · May 12, 2026
Why I Published the True Cost Basket Index and the Shelter Index
Two new household-cost decision tools join the analytics portfolio. The TCBI publishes a weekly basket cost down to the census tract. The TSCI publishes the fixed monthly shelter and family-cost nut at the county grain. Both are federal public-domain data, fully attributed, free to use — with the same honesty about clamps, state inheritance, and vintage drift that the VLI carries.
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