Backroads California

Radio

San Jose          Talking about my planned visits to some of the California cities where we had assisted communities in applying for low power FM radio stations, my friends could only shake their heads.  There was unanimous consensus that this was a crazy idea, with too much driving and traffic that would kill the best made …

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Divorces and Philanthropy

Philanthropy

San Francisco       No question that Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Microsoft’s Bill Gates have made a ton of money from their various businesses.  Both go up and down on the list of richest people in the world, sometime first, but always in the conversation with a gazillion billions each.  But, as the song goes, “money …

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FERC Has More Work to Do

Energy

San Francisco        The headlines were clear.  There is finally going to be a new federal rule that prods the vast network of utility companies that produce and transmit the power to business and homes across the country to make and begin to implement long term plans to upgrade the US electricity grid. Like much …

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