The national debt is fascinating to watch. I’m talking about how fast it grows, and how our elected leaders profess to be unable to slow it down, let alone stop it and shift into reverse. Their failure so far, even in the face of what almost everybody says will be the disaster of the fiscal […]
A brief period of sunshine on Dec. 27, 2012, in Albany: Is it an omen of something good?
Here’s a little example of oil or gas pollution from parking lots and city streets that might end up in our rivers unless cities find a way to treat urban runoff.
So we’re still here, more or less. What did the ancient Mayans know anyway? If they had been as smart as their calendar implies, they might still be around. Then they could explain the apparent ending date of their cosmos, or at least their way of reckoning time. But alas, they didn’t endure nearly as […]
Everywhere you turn now, on the air and in print, there is talk about new efforts at more “gun control.” Nobody so far has explained what that would mean in detail, and depending on the details, how it would prevent shootings in places where there are a lot of people, whether it’s an assembly hall […]
That’s what climate change looked like in North Albany on Tuesday morning, Dec. 18, 2012 — if that’s what it was. Actually, it looked morer like a common December morning when a cold front moves through.
As long as our public services are supported by the property tax, losing some of that income is not a welcome move, especially when the taxes are paid by a big multinational company based somewhere else. I was thinking this when I read that the Linn County Board of Commissioners had just decided to […]
