My local public library has perhaps the best marketing of a tax-provided service ever. Patrons who check out items there receive a receipt that details the savings achieved by using the library. In 2024, my wife and I “saved” close to $5,000, according to this accounting.
BESS stands for “Battery Energy Storage System.” The largest BESS in the US is located at Moss Landing in California. It is 3000 Megawatt-hours in size, and was built in sections.
It is my hope that there will be a complete expulsion of all people who have consorted with criminal gangs and drug cartels, including the… Login to continue reading Login…
The grant offered to Newton by KDOT for Sand Creek Trail is a very good thing, and the city did well to accept it on such short notice. It is to be used to close the Trail’s missing link between 1st and South 14th Streets West.
Over twenty-five years ago, our failure to adopt the metric system resulted in the loss of our Mars Climate Orbiter probe launched at Cape Canaveral on December 11, 1998. On September 23, 1999, communication with the orbiter was lost as it came too close to the surface of Mars. An investigation discovered the failure to be caused by a mismatch between the metric units used by NASA and the spacecraft’s builder Lockheed Martin that used the non-metric system.
Kansas cities, like all American cities—including all the blue ones that our new president regularly attacks—are not radical places. They may have more Democratic voters than the state’s rural counties, and those voters may prefer more egalitarian policies than will ever pass in Topeka, but their economies are just as dependent upon capitalism as the state and country as a whole.
On January 17, outgoing US president Joe Biden belatedly announced the ratification -- in 2018 -- of the 28th Amendment (the “Equal Rights Amendment”) to the US Constitution.
I remember back around 2006 reading a review of a new book by Timothy Egan about the Dirty Thirties (The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl). A few months later I saw an announcement that this book was the winner of a National Book Award. I thought to myself, “That’s a book I need to read,” but, like many things, it slipped by me.
In his last speech to the nation, President Joe Biden warned of a growing oligarchy in American politics, pointing the finger particularly at the “tech industrial complex.” It was hard to ignore that the wealthy are sharing a more prominent place in American government when President Trump’s inauguration ceremony showcased some of the richest people in the world as guests.
