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California Governor Newsom's Energy Policies Biased Against Those Who Voted...
It has been a tough year for everyone during the pandemic, but more so on the lower income portion of the population. As we emerge from an emotionally and financially challenging year, we are seeing...
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Historically Black and White Neighborhoods Share Opposition to Affordable...
The Dallas Morning News editorial, A Blow to Affordable Housing, illuminates the opposition to the affordable housing apartment complex by the historically Black neighborhood, Hamilton Park. They are...
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Protect Neighborhoods by Saving Zoning
Atlanta, your city government is trying to trick you.Now that sentence, all by itself, may not seem to you like a “man-bites-dog” lead.But it is the truth, and you deserve to understand what your city...
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Who Will Control the 21st Century? Whoever Controls Space
It's impossible to predict the future. But one thing you can be sure of: Few things will be of more important to the lives of our children than who wins the emerging, epoch-defining struggle for...
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Glad to See Home Team Win Kohl's Struggle with Activist Shareholders
No, I’m not very happy that Kohl’s CEO Michelle Gass ended up taking more home in total compensation for 2020 than she did for 2019, for a year in which the company furloughed about 85,000 employees...
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Florida Downtown Commutes Fall the Least from COVID, Recover the Most
Mass transit may have taken the biggest hit from Covid-19, declining by declined 55% in the New York urban area, 43% in Los Angeles and 57% in Chicago, but car commutes also suffered. The latest INRIX...
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The Looming Democrat Civil War
The Democratic Party has always been a loose confederation of outsiders — poor farmers, union members, populists, European immigrants and southern segregationists. As the actor Will Rogers said in...
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Economy Thrives While CBDs Dive
The argument that central business districts (CBDs) are the engine rooms of the Australian economy is being tested right now.Many Australian CBDs continue to languish, with major CBDs only at from one...
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No Silver Bullet on Energy Issues
With some energy literacy, folks may realize that there may not be a silver bullet answer for all of humanity’s energy needs. Whether you ultimately drive an internal combustion engine vehicle or an...
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The Green New Deal will Impoverish America
‘The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all… Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a...
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The Cleveland Joke
I grew up on a Rust Belt street in a Rust Belt city: Colgate Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. The street had an alley. It had working-class kids born to working-class parents. Life on the street wasn’t...
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Telework: Huge Greenhouse Gas Reductions Per Statistics Canada
Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced as much as 8.6 megatonnes (metric tons) if “all potential teleworkers would work from home most of the time,” instead of physically commuting...
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Could COVID Exodus Speed the Heartland Revival?
Over the past two decades America’s largest urban areas enjoyed a heady renaissance, driven in large part by the in-migration of immigrants, minorities and young people. But even as a big-city...
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America Pursues Expensive Electricity While Much of the World Lives in Energy...
With many still living with little to no access to electricity, American politicians are pursuing the most expensive ways to generate intermittent electricity with offshore wind turbines on the East...
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America's First Infantada
The national consciousness regresses to the level of the toddler, casting everything in stark terms of good and bad.We are here to guide public opinion, not to discuss it.Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte,...
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What Happened in the 2020 Election? An Interactive Exploration of the Outcomes
We search for prima facie evidence of vote-count irregularities in the 2020 presidential election, by the very simple device of looking for anomalous patterns in the vote counts at the county level. We...
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Here's to Next GM Revolution in Spring Hill, Tennessee
Remember how states and cities breathlessly pursued Tesla’s battery “gigafactory” in 2014 and Amazon’s “HQ2” in 2018? In the 1980s, localities went after General Motors’ Saturn project with much the...
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Yeomanry's Global Decline
For much of the last part of the 20th Century, the world’s middle class was ascendant, expanding and, in most countries, firmly in control of national politics and culture. Yet in more recent decades,...
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Senator Scott Weiner (D) Introduces Bill That Would Further Increase Energy...
California Senator Weiner has taken Governor Newsom’s recent Executive order to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles and hydraulic fracturing one step further with his introduction of SB 467 to...
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The Idaho Boom
Idaho has recently been the fastest growing state in the country, with population growth of 2.1% last year. Of course it is easy to get high percentages on a small base, but the Idaho growth story is...
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