“Such highly realistic drills can do more harm than good, and traumatizing students is not the way to protect them…”
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Our Electric Destiny, Part Five
You cannot drill into the ground and find ‘electricity’… the way you can drill a well, and find oil or natural gas. But at the same time, we have a theoretically unlimited supply of electricity…
OPINION: Defining ‘Social Justice’
I have an acquaintance who grew up in Russia when it was part of the USSR. She lived there through the fall of that regime…
LETTER: Say NO to Bloomberg
Throughout his political career, he has bought endorsements by heavily funding both high-profile NPOs and political allies’ campaigns….
EDITORIAL: Our Electric Destiny, Part Four
Governments have various clever ways of providing economic benefits, however. Tax credits are merely one technique. Restrictive or permissive regulations are another…
EDITORIAL: Our Electric Destiny, Part Three
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is loosening regulations to allow cars to burn more gasoline… only to get push-back from the same auto companies that would seemingly benefit from such relaxed regulations…
LETTER: The Ups and Downs of an Electric Car
Firstly it is so quiet, the acceleration is quite exciting, and whenever you go down the hill or come to a stop sign the regenerative braking recharges the battery…
EDITORIAL: Our Electric Destiny, Part Two
The situation is a bit more challenging if you’re a tourist, and you’re planning to travel 250 miles in your EV… because you will pretty much drain your battery…
HMPRESENTLY: Well Spent?
A “400 metre long wall” is being built. Does this sound familiar? But instead of keeping out immigrants, the function of the wall is to block from Trump’s sight the slums…
EDITORIAL: Our Electric Destiny, Part One
“The goal is to have all the stations installed by June 30, 2020. So it is a tight timeline…”
EDITORIAL: On Our Own, with No Direction Home… Part Seven
I have the sense that Jim and Nancy ended up with a completed house, without any debt or mortgage to pay off, but I can’t say for sure…
LETTER: Who Will You Vote For?
Then of course you have the see-no, speak-no, hear-no evil old line GOP members… trying to stay above the fray, hoping the Trump nightmare will just go away…
EDITORIAL: Is it News… or Opinion… or PR?
“My question would be whether the newspapers running this kind of thing, especially as news and not opinion and without disclosures, are thinking it through completely when they do….”
EDITORIAL: On Our Own, with No Direction Home… Part Six
“That sounds like a lot of money. And it is,” she told us. “But it’s only enough to build one 45-unit apartment building…”
HMPRESENTLY: Waaaay Toooo Much
Putting redundant letters in words, like capitalizing every letter in certain words, evidently is a marketing strategy aimed at stirring emotions…
EDITORIAL: On Our Own, with No Direction Home… Part Five
HomesFund believes that a community that has healthy and happy homeowners is a vibrant and thriving community…
EDITORIAL: On Our Own, with No Direction Home… Part Four
“Someone had a three-bedroom condo, and they wanted us to rent out all three rooms for them. But they don’t live there, so that’s outside our scope…”
EDITORIAL: On Our Own, with No Direction Home… Part Three
“One of the things we heard about at the 2019 conference, and that we’re investigating and trying to learn more about, are Community Land Trusts — and what that could possibly mean for housing…”
EDITORIAL: On Our Own, with No Direction Home… Part Two
This massive MID tax giveaway to mostly very wealthy families has been staunchly defended, since the 1950s, by America’s real estate industry as necessary to keep real estate prices headed upwards…