I am continually amazed by how experts who make excuses for why certain problems
have remain unsolved overlook simpler and less expensive solutions to these
problems. For example, a whole population of advocates
During the course of determining whether I should invest in a documentary film
about dogs, I gained some quite interesting insights into the potentially new
role dogs can play in our health care
Recently, I saw a reference to a book entitled The High Cost of Free Parking by
Donald Shoup [https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking/dp/1884829988]. I
bought the book, which is lengthy, and
Is the Middle Class worse off?
As we celebrate Labor Day, there are many op-ed pieces being written about the
decline of the American middle class, particularly the “blue collar” jobs that
enabled
In the Sunday, November 23, 2008, New York Times, in the Connecticut and The
Region section, I was struck by the inadvertent juxtaposition of two articles.
The first, in the Town Green column
Vocational and Technical Education
As we just observed the Labor Day weekend, there is a tendency for the media and
for elected officials to reinforce obsolete views of labor and of vocational and