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Yearly Archives: 2016

HomeYearly Archives: 2016

Regs not the problem for oil business

The incoming Trump administration and the oil and gas industry like to talk about the burdens of environmental red tape. But in Deloitte’s “reality check” of the top six issues facing the oil and gas industry in 2015, regulatory burden is absent...

December 21, 2016 toddneff 0 Comments

For open primaries (and maybe avoiding the next Trump)

My wife and I got a letter from a woman named Laura Chauncey Mullins the other day, from 574 S. Broadway Blvd. in Denver. The addresses, both the return and ours, had been mail-merged onto standard Avery stickers. Knowing enough about Broadway to...

October 21, 2016 toddneff 1 Comments

A new political vocabulary for a new political reality

As this 2016 presidential race has shown, 21st century America could use a new political vocabulary. We need some shiny new words, ones capable of capturing the subtleties and not-so-subtleties of candidate as well as voter behavior more...

October 17, 2016 toddneff 2 Comments

Donald Trump and the O.J. Simpson playbook

Donald Trump is coming to our Denver Lowry neighborhood today, to a rally at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum. Denver. A buddy of mine joked that we should maybe build a wall around the neighborhood. I said maybe we could get...

July 29, 2016 toddneff Donald Trump, George Saunders, Lee Child, OJ Simpson 1 Comments

Brain Bar Budapest via blog posts

An old friend of mine touched base a couple of months back, wondering if I’d like to do some writing for Brain Bar Budapest. My first question was: for Brain-what? As freelancers tend to do, I said yes. They were looking for blog posts...

June 22, 2016 toddneff 0 Comments

Highest and best use of cassette tapes in 2016

I picked up my seventh-grade daughter at the Hill Campus of Arts and Sciences (nee Roscoe C. Hill Middle School) in Denver early today. Waiting in the lobby, I perused art. I am always struck by the creativity of the average middle-school kid. In...

May 13, 2016 toddneff 0 Comments

$15 an hour is $5 a day (inflation adjusted)

While I’m personally all for a $15 minimum wage (economic theory be damned), I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about it. But just now, I was chaining away, mentally speaking, and came upon an interesting comparison. The initial...

April 15, 2016 toddneff 0 Comments

Political voyeurs in New Hampshire, 16 years back

With the New Hampshire primary happening today, I figured it’s time to dust off some of the only presidential political reporting I’ve ever done (I covered George W. Bush’s visit to the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden...

February 9, 2016 toddneff 2000 election, Bill Bradley, Fletcher School, George W. Bush, John McCain, New Hampshire Primary, Steve Forbes 1 Comments

Microsoft Band 2 and heart rate

I bought  Microsoft Band 2 a few weeks back ($200). I’d looked at the Band 1 a year ago and was a bit scared off by its extreme flatness; the Band 2 has a nice arch. I jumped on it. This post is about heart rate monitoring accuracy, but...

January 29, 2016 toddneff fitness tracker, heart rate monitor, Microsoft Band 2, running 0 Comments
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