New Orleans I won’t say it’s a sea change, but there are starting to be some encouraging signs of change among the elites and critical chattering classes on the issue of more equitable taxation, particularly the need for the rich to pay their fair share. In a recent issue of the New Yorker, surely a …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Geography of Decline in USA Jobs
New Orleans This slideshow was sent to me by a friend from Hamilton, Montana. It vividly and graphically shows the more than doubling of the unemployment rate, county by county, state by state, over a little more than two years from January 2007 when unemployment was 4.6% to June 2010 when we were at 9.7%. …
Meth and Abortion in the West
New Orleans In the up and down saga of getting the truck out of Laramie, my buddies at Laramie Time Company (big ups to Troy Trujillo!) managed to square me away and out of Wyoming on Monday evening around 6 PM. I’ve rarely seen a more welcome sight than the sun shining in pockets through …