Eileen McNamara's column today "Put Transit on Agenda" is right on point. Too bad it took the tragedy in the tunnel and the prospect of $4 gas prices to get this important issue some statewide ink.See the opening and closing … [Read more...]
Archives for July 19, 2006
A political tour of the Berkshires
Anyway, Andy was impressed and asked Michael for advice on what to see on a weekend trip to the Berkshires. Iâm sure Michael is busy earning more windmills (âTeacher says, âevery time a bell rings, Michael gets a windmill!â), … [Read more...]
The Onion Sums It Up
"Listen, when the government spends $14 billion on anything, you are going to have to accept that an innocent person will die under a concrete slab." Read more. … [Read more...]
Romney raises Bechtel bucks
Is anyone surprised by this?Just 10 weeks before the roof came crashing down in the I-90 connector, Romney accepted generous contributions from both Bechtel and Parsons Brinckerhoff, made to the Republican Governors Association (RGA), of … [Read more...]
Happy Blogosphere Day!
According to the bloggers at Ned Lamont for Senate, Swing State Project, and other places, today 19 July is Blogosphere Day. These worthy folk argue, not especially convincingly in my opinion, that this day should be so commemorated because … [Read more...]
If wishes were trains
... then Eileen McNamara would ride. Gosh, I wish, I wish I could share her optimism that public transit will seem more attractive in light of recent events:Skyrocketing gas prices and the collapse of ceiling panels in the Interstate 90 … [Read more...]
Mit Romney: All for one or all for him?
When Romney jumped in to turn around the Olympics, the big event had not happened yet. In fact, Romney was brought in about 3 years before the big event. If things were not running well beforehand, then it looks like Romney did âturn … [Read more...]
Jeff Jacoby, GOP Waterboy At Your Service!
The Big Dig is indeed a monument to O'Neill. It captures perfectly the costly big-government sloppiness for which he was the poster child. Only in the public sector, where market discipline is nonexistent and financial losses are the … [Read more...]
Electricity don’t grow on trees
There are a few things to understand about electricity at this scale: 1. Generally speaking, you can't store it. Rare exceptions exist for variable flow hydro power, but with almost no exception, the electricity being used now … [Read more...]
A Bit of News From Iraq
T. was a 26-year-old civil engineer who worked with a group of friends in a consultancy bureau in Jadriya. The last time I saw him was a week ago. He had stopped by the house to tell us his sister was engaged and he'd brought along with him … [Read more...]