In early March, US president Donald Trump upped the stakes on his previous musings about purchasing Greenland from Denmark. “We need it really for international world security,” he said in a speech to Congress. “And,” despite disinterest in the notion from Greenlanders and Danes, “I think we’re going to get it. One way or the other, we’re going to get it.”
Kansas GOP legislators, overflowing with ambition but constrained by a shortened schedule, have decided to throw caution to the wind.
Some numbers popped into my eyes that opened them in a way that has rarely happened before.
This week, Kansas Secretary of Transportation Calvin Reed kicked off KDOT’s annual Transportation Safety Conference in Wichita by emphasizing the key components of decreasing fatalities on Kansas’s streets and highways: safer drivers, safer vehicles, safer speeds, and safer roads. He was immediately followed by the conference’s keynote speaker, Charles Marohn, the founder of Strong Towns, an organization dedicated to helping America’s cities manage their finances and built environments better. Chuck made the case that, practically speaking, Kansas’s cities should just ignore the first three factors and focus on the last. He’s right.
“What noted conservative advocates jailing people to prevent the spread of their ideas?” If David Friedman’s The Machinery of Freedom was written nowadays, he could challenge readers to think of one who doesn’t.
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It falls to me to write with official notice of what you likely already know from news coverage--the death of James F. (call me Jim) Hoy on 23 February, following the death of his son Josh on the 22d. I need to cut through personal grief for a moment to take care of business.
Let’s visit all the nation’s national parks – and do that in a day.