No less a business giant than Henry Ford was for the $15 movement (inflation adjusted) Photo Courtesy PBS.
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…
Political Voyeurs in New Hampshire, February 2000
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, Colo., also).
It occurred 16 years ago, before I wrote for a…
Solar panels tend to generate substantially less electricity when in garages.
Given the success of the global climate talks in Paris, it's time to post a hyper-local piece on our household's greatest carbon-mitigation endeavor: our solar panels.
Specifically, I got a wild hair to compare the volume occupied by the stack of solar panels to the volume of the…
Jack Galvin, taken in his Fletcher School office on October 18, 1999.
John R. “Jack” Galvin, the son of a bricklayer who rose to become NATO supreme allied commander of European forces and dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy died on September 25, of complications of Parkinson’s disease.
New York Times and Washington Post…
Google's driverless, autonomous vehicles portend a radical chance in how we get around. (courtesy Google)
AVs (not audiovisual, but rather autonomous vehicles) are poised to change the developed world. It seems that about everyone who looks at transportation comes to the same conclusion. It takes a bit of explaining as to why, and a recent piece I wrote for…