I recently found myself in the middle of an on-line debate about the Wall Street Journal (nerd alert!). I cast a disparaging remark at the paper and called it a Republican rag. I was rightly rebuked: “It’s a good paper, with good writers, and the editorial desk is separate from the reporting desk”. All [...]
Nuclear energy may not be so bad after all. That’s right. As we wait for water, solar, and wind industries to take advantage of their recent growth opportunities and achieve necessary mass-output requirements; perhaps we should revisit our present situation. This would be burning coal in the multi-billions of tons, and it all has to go [...]
FDR’s 1935 Works Progress Administration was the mother of public infrastructure programs. The country was in the toilet and this program employed all comers. If there’s something really amazing and built out of stone in your town, look for the WPA letters carved into it somewhere. This is true of the bridges in Pittsburgh that I [...]