Too Much Fun
There’s something about the metallic pink shimmer of Watermelon Four Loko that immediately sends a scissoring pain to your temple. As for its bouquet, imagine a Jolly Rancher hard candy drowned in a...
View ArticleGreat Recession Takes Its Toll on South Bay Expressway
The South Bay Expressway filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (reorganization) last week after falling traffic forced its hand to manage its debt more effectively. The SBE is one of two roads allowed to be...
View ArticleAn Act of Hubris
While nobody knows what effects the health care reform bill passed by Congress will have on health care in America, the battle around this legislation is very likely to have disastrous effects on the...
View ArticleRidding the Earth of Nukes, One Treaty at a Time
During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama pledged to seek “the peace of a world without nuclear weapons.” President Obama has now made a small but significant step toward keeping...
View ArticlePrivatization of Printing Services Jammed in Washington State
Following up on this post last month, the Washington state legislature seems to be dropping the ball entirely on the privatization of state printing services. You'd think that in a time of fiscal...
View ArticleAustin Tollroad Expands Based on Strong Demand
The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority has begun construction on a 5 mile extension of 183A, seven years ahead of schedule, thanks to its ability to use toll revenues to finance transportation...
View ArticleHousing Prices Going Nowhere Fast
Housing recovery news continues to be, well, "blahg" probably best describes it:U.S. home prices were mostly flat from a year earlier in January, according to the S&P Case-Shiller home-price...
View ArticleCorrection: Democracy Doesn't Create Jobs...Free People Do
Washington Post op-ed columnist Harold Meyerson takes America to task for allowing its democratic form of government to continue in a dysfunctional way. It's an interesting take on Democracy, but I...
View ArticleThe Disappearing Blood Stain
John Thompson spent 18 years in a Louisiana prison, 14 of them in a windowless, six-by-nine-foot death row cell. According to a federal appeals court, "There were multiple mentally deranged prisoners...
View ArticleIt's Not You, Mittâ??It's Me
Mitt Romney not only possesses an air of real-world know-how but also has mucho smarts. I've been a reluctant apologist for him for years now.And for those of you who believe he's out of touch with the...
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