September 2005

Professor Sullivan Rocks!

Lynne Kiesling Congratulations to Dennis Sullivan, my former undergrad professor (to whom I owe my undying gratitude for, among other things, having me read Sen’s Paretian liberal paradox argument), who has been named the 2005-2006 Miami University Alumni Association Effective Educator. I concur; he’s been an inspiration to me for (gaack!) decades, both in and …

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Resource Adequacy, Investment, and Capacity Markets in Electricity

Lynne Kiesling Resource adequacy is the current hot topic in electricity policy. Fueled by the glacially incremental restructuring process in the states and concerns about service reliability in this persistent policy limbo, states and regional system operators have explored a variety of means of providing forward-looking reliability incentives in the absence of the regulatory mandate …

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Change of Case

Lynne Kiesling As you’ve by now inferred, we’ve made the exec-you-tee-vo decision to change to Title Case on titles at KP. Many thanks for the input I got from several of you, public and otherwise. I think what swung the decision was the ability to reserve all caps for times when we want the emphasis, …

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Price Wars: Attorneys General Strike Back

Michael Giberson Rainbough Phillips amusingly tags price gouging as “the Phantom Menace” in a post on Catallarchy. She also provides a neat insider’s look at the supply and demand for emergency supplies, viewed from the returns counter at an Austin-area big box hardware store. Meanwhile, back in Houston, authorities are urging the city’s gasoline station …

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E.e. Cummings

Lynne Kiesling That is how much I like him, that I am willing to break from KP title protocol … I’m putting the whimsically allegorical poem that Kurt Elling read on Wednesday after the cut, if you are interested. Here’s the first stanza as a teaser: here is little Effie’s head whose brains are made …

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