The oil and gas fracking industry has met its match in New York.  They have been stopped by NIMBY-ites, a coalition of interest groups opposed to horizontal drilling and rock fracturing.  Thus far, the group is winning against the combined money and power of the drillers.   One can look at this in three ways. […]

Posted on July 8th, 2013 by admin
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Russia is playing a balanced PR game in its decision to allow Edward Snowden to remain in the Moscow airport transit area.  On the one hand, it is giving him ersatz asylum   On the other, it is telling him to go publicly.  It is tweaking the US and not in the same gesture.  One would think […]

Posted on July 5th, 2013 by admin
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This story is amusing.  It seems a magazine editor has admitted that his publication used interns to avoid paying journalists.  It has always been so.  Decades ago when I worked in TV news, the station prided itself on its liberality except in the matters of pay.  Ask for a raise and there “a thousand others […]

Posted on July 4th, 2013 by admin
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When you are a manufacturer of high-performance tires, the last thing you want is for the tires to fail — in races — before millions of spectators. That is just what has been happening to Pirelli.  its tires have been disintegrating and exploding during F1 competition  the largest racing circuit in the world.  Why, no one […]

Posted on July 3rd, 2013 by admin
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The Zip Code has turned 50.  It seems like it has been around longer than that.  It is obvious today to have numerical identifiers for zones in which the mail is delivered.  It wasn’t apparent  in 1963.  The US Postal Service would have drowned in mail had it not been instituted. Today, of course, mail […]

Posted on July 2nd, 2013 by admin
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