Posted in Economics & Globalization, Politics & Public Policy, Technology & Science, tagged advancements, alternative, balance, Big Oil, blame, brown energy, bullet train, buzzword, capital, clean, collaborative, commodities, cooperative, crisis, debate, drilling, Economics & Globalization, efficient, environmentalists, food, food insecurity, fuel, future, geothermal, gouging, Green, highway, history, hovercraft, imagine, incentives, inflation, infrastructure, innovation, invention, Iran, jobs, market, myths, not in my backyard, oil, partisan, partnership, petro, petro hoarding, political, Popular Science, power, price hikes, prices, private, privatize, profit, progress, public, pump, railroad, renewable, renewable resources, resource, rhetoric, risk, scarcity, solution, space, speculation, subsidy, surge, sustainable, tax break, Technology & Science, transportation, truth, values, venture capital, vision, water, wind, world, WPA on March 18, 2012|
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Quick! What type of world did you imagine when you were a kid? Did you foresee yourself darting about in a hovercraft much like the cartoon family in the Jetsons? Vacationing on the moon? A lean, mean greener world? How is it that we find ourselves these many years, decades even, down the road and we’re still looking at a society that in so many ways is what it once was: the world that petroleum built? Decades after the Carter-era gasoline shortages, now with the prospect of $6 gasoline looming before us, we have little to show for our grand hopes and great visions. We’re still talking about moving off foreign oil even as the buzzword “energy independence” has become firmly entrenched in our lexicon. So little, so late.
What happened? (more…)
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Posted in Politics & Public Policy, tagged 911, balance, ballot, bankruptcy, bitter pill, blame, bonds, budget, California, Californians, conservatism, conservative, controversy, crisis, deficit, Democrat, early childhood development, economic, election, electorate, fifth largest economy, fiscal, foreclosure, funds, general fund, George Skelton, Golden State, governor, Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association, initiatives, irresponsible, Jon Coupal, LA Times, lawmakers, liberal, lottery, May revise, measures, mental health, Michael Rothfeld, newspaper, Official Voter Information Guide, operating, opinions, overextended, owe, pain, pay, peter to rob paul, piper, policy, political, politicians, polls, pragmatic, President Reagan, prisons, problem, program, property values, propositions, receivership, recession, recovery, red, Republican, revenues, Sacramento, salaries, Schwarzenegger, settling the books, social, special election, special interests, spending, state, taxation, taxes, three strikes, unions, vote, voting booth on May 19, 2009|
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Remember when, on some rare occasion, the correct answer to a test question in school was “all of the above”? I happen to believe that much of life outside the confines of a classroom is like that. Each of us perceives an aspect of a given political or social problem on which we base a set of mostly valid observations. What we have less time and patience for are the dots we have yet to connect.
Take California’s special election. (more…)
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