Lynne Kiesling OK, I’ve migrated over domain hosting for KP and email to a combination of WordPress and Google Apps … so all of the legacy www.knowledgeproblem.com addressing, RSS feeds, and Google ranking should be intact! Yay. And thanks to Adam from Market Urbanism for his prompting on this item. BUT it may take a …
Lynne Kiesling Via Ron Bailey at Reason: the biofuels industry asks where their bailout is. I had to chuckle when Ron pointed out that the Renewable Fuels Association says that they, unlike other lobbying organizations, are offering ideas instead of just asking for a handout. OK, I did more than chuckle … Ron quotes a …
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Lynne Kiesling I’m gonna beat Mike to the punch on this one: Weekend 1 of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will include Wynton Marsalis & the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, as well as my local band Wilco! It’s 24-26 April … hmmm, right now the calendar looks open. Have to see if I …
Lynne Kiesling I’ve been blogging for almost six years now (yikes!), first using Blogger and then under the Knowledge Problem brand using Movable Type. Movable Type is great, and it has served me well. But the programming environment has gotten more complicated over those six years, and while I am of a geeky bent, I’m …
Michael Giberson On the greentechmedia site: “Texas Wind Farms Paying People to Take Power“: A power producer typically gets paid for the power it generates. In Texas, some wind energy generators are paying to have someone take power off their hands. Because of intense competition, the way wind tax credits work, the location of the …
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Michael Giberson A news release recently put out by the New York ISO – the organization that manages the electric transmission grid and the integrated wholesale power market in the state – observes that electric power prices are dropping along with fuel prices. The statement noted that power prices had increased as natural gas prices …
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Michael Giberson Gasoline prices are making the headlines across the country (these headlines found via Google News): Salt Lake City Tribune: When gas prices fall, retailers rejoice, too. Why do they rejoice? See our post on Rockets and Feathers. An Associated Press story: Price of gas hits lowest point in nearly 5 years. Hartford Courant: …
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Lynne Kiesling While you are at the Chicago Tribune editorial page reading the local media commentary on our [sarcasm]humble and noble public servant Governor Blagoevich[/sarcasm], take a look at the sales tax calendar: Here’s the story: our Cook County government is allegedly full of a lot of the types of patronage politics that we’ve been …
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Lynne Kiesling In the comments on Will Wilkinson’s post to which I just linked, Ed Lopez offers a statement of philosophy that expresses my own beliefs more clearly and eloquently than I am capable of doing: Your post is why I consider myself a philosophical anarchist. I would love to have a government to which …
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