Month: June 2010

We can’t impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity. – Meg Whitman As we...

You can read the president’s remarks to the nation here. The only part I care about it this: When I was a candidate for this office, I laid out a set of principles that would move our country towards energy independence....

Bloody Sunday was for me one of those life defining events, to be remembered a bit like the day JFK was assassinated, Nelson Mandela was freed, and I first heard Neil Young’s “Harvest” and “After the Gold...

It looks like retiring House Appropriations Chair David Obey (D-WI) is going to play hardball with the White House and Pentagon to protect teachers from massive layoffs. It shouldn’t be so hard to get Congress to...

By and large, mayors are pragmatists.  They’ve got snow to remove and potholes to fill, schools to run and crime to fight.  Literally and figuratively, they must keep the trains running on time, or hear loudly...