Who Do You Trust

The Tax Rebate Was a Flop

An interesting perspective in the Wall Street Journal about the Bush tax rebate and the potential for the stimulus plan.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121798022246515105.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

Democrats Set Principles to Guide Climate Change Bill

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday unveiled a set of principles that will guide their efforts to craft legislation aimed at slowing global warming, firing an opening salvo in what is likely to be one of the year’s central legislative debates.
The document released [...]

The Stimulus Bill

The Republicans released a list yesterday of what they deem wasteful in the stimulus legislation. I do not agree the spending is wasteful. It is, however, not equitable….for all practical purposes it might as well be a pork bill.
It is a wish list…and unfortunately only a very small percentage of folks were asked for their [...]

How to Spend a Trillion Dollars

A very insightful article by Michael Grunwald of Time Magazine.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1871769,00.html

The Economic Impact of the Interstate Highway System

Since we’ve heard a lot about infrastructure improvement, I thought it might be interesting to look at the economics of interstate highways and where enviromental impacts are considered.
Here’s an interesting paper published in 2006.
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:B-QN7iVxKC8J:www.interstate50th.org/docs/techmemo2.pdf+interstate+system+economic+benefit&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us&client=firefox-a

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Below is a link to the stimulus bill….647 pages. Last week I was becoming a “Republican” about stimulus money…thinking broad tax reductions are better than trying to get huge spending in place. Then I read the Act. First, I’m impressed…with the breadth and complexity of it. If nothing else, it is an amazing concentration of [...]

The Politics of Climate Change

The Guardian yesterday published an article quoting Jim Hansen, head of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, as saying Barack Obama only had four years to act to avoid an ecodisaster….and that cap and trade markets for carbon have failed….quite the statement!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/18/jim-hansen-obama
There have been over three hundred comments published on the article and many of [...]

Global Warming and the Internet

Here is an article on a trend in use of the Internet and information on global warming….I’m not sure I see it the way the author does….but there are some interesting observations.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kevin-grandia/a-troubling-trend-in-glob_b_158288.html

Obama Climate Change Agenda

An interesting short article on the Sierra Club’s list of suggested day one environmental actions by the new administration.
http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE50C5RN20090113