• Why are we waiting? Protest for longer green times

    Why are we waiting? Protest for longer green times

    Originally posted on BICYCLE DUTCH: A little over a week ago, there was a protest for longer green times of the cycling traffic lights in Utrecht. The local chapter of the Cyclists’ Union (Fietsersbond) and the organisation Kracht van Utrecht (Power of Utrecht*) offered people waiting for the lights to turn green a sweet roll…

  • Ever Wished That Calvin and Hobbes Creator Bill Watterson Would Return to the Comics Page? Well, He Just Did.

    Originally posted on I'm Too Stupid to Travel: Bill Watterson is the Bigfoot of cartooning. He is legendary. He is reclusive. And like Bigfoot, there is really only one photo of him in existence.  Few in the cartooning world have ever spoken to him. Even fewer have ever met him. In fact, legend has…

  • Expansion of Democracy

    Originally posted on In:Action: If, instead of referring to the movement as the civil rights movement, we spoke in terms of the expansion of democracy, then each new generation would recognize that they have a responsibility to expand democracy beyond the way they found it. This duty is an ongoing task that each new…

  • Sorry, Progressives – Supply Matters

    Originally posted on Let's Go LA: The discussion on housing affordability in California has taken a turn for the bizarre lately. In response to calls for allowing increased construction of new market rate housing, some progressives have argued that supply and demand doesn’t apply to urban housing. This has often been implied in the…

  • Headlines – April 15, 2014

    Headlines – April 15, 2014

    I took a moment today at 2:49 pm to offer prayer for those 3 people who lost their lives one year ago today and for the health and continued recovery of the 260 or so injured in the Boston Marathon Bombing of just one year ago.  While praying I remembered the police officer as well as one of…

  • Salt Lake City – Sustainability Front Runner?

    The large and historical metropolises tend to get the news coverage, mostly because, well, they’re large and historical.  Coming from a Mountain state–Colorado–we were considered “fly over” territory and therefore reporters spent little time telling the stories that come out of our region. So, today I’m doing my bit to rectify that and sharing a bit about what’s going…