Lynne Kiesling Lest you think that I’ve become a one-trick pony and can think of nothing else except Kelo, I offer this justification for my attention to it: this is such a big deal that even people who don’t normally pay attention to such things are paying attention and are outraged. All sorts of people …
Lynne Kiesling Spent a lazy Sunday morning doing some online housecleaning, including the following: -Subscribed to Feed Burner and added RSS feed links to the Syndication menu -Removing dead links, updating others, and adding some reads that are on my regular routine, notably The Glittering Eye and The Capital Spectator. Both are sites I read …
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Lynne Kiesling Not surprisingly, there’s lots of good, eloquent analysis of yesterday’s Supreme Court Kelo decision. Tyler says that the decision illustrates why he’s not a pure utilitarian. Will concisely says what I was too emotionally wound up and too pressed to get to a plane to say yesterday: That is, if you have something …
Lynne Kiesling I was disgusted to hear that cities may seize private property for private development. In February I posted this discussion of the Kelo arguments. As the AP article states: As a result, cities now have wide power to bulldoze residences for projects such as shopping malls and hotel complexes in order to generate …
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Lynne Kiesling I am flying home tomorrow after quite a spate of travel over three weeks. Very tired. And a little exasperated, but that too shall pass. Here are some cool things to read while we’re distracted here at KP: Courtney on the Highline, its history, and its impending transformation to a public walkway. Randall …
Lynne Kiesling I am in Portland, Oregon, in advance of a meeting with some colleagues from Bonneville and the Pacific Northwest National Lab on a project (more on that as it develops). This is the fourth time I’ve gotten to come to Portland; every time it’s been for work. I really like it. I spent …
Lynne Kiesling John Atkinson’s New Energy Currents post over at Winds of Change is up. What a great resource. Just the information on the biofuel technologies alone is worth the read. And thanks to him for his link here! I’m up for a KP speaking tour, we just need to find the bucks. California is …
Lynne Kiesling Hold on to your wallets; the Senate is debating the energy bill today. I actually just heard John Thune say that ethanol is a clean fuel that will lessen our dependence on foreign oil. Spare me. Ethanol is neither clean nor a silver bullet to make us self-sufficient in energy. Ethanol production is …
Lynne Kiesling OK, so ‘splain me this: when is selling tickets on eBay that you’ve purchased for a popular concert “profiteering from misery”? When it’s a charity concert organized by the befuddled anti-capitalist Bob Geldof. Bob Geldof is a good musician (the Boomtown Rats were one of my favorite ’80s bands), and I recall attending …
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