Lynne Kiesling Chicagoist reports that the Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicagoland’s “smart-growth” top-down planning elites, is proposing to reduce the amount of “free” on-street parking by installing more meters in business districts. They also propose to raise parking meter prices: The Metropolitan Planning Council has proposed to install more parking meters and raise meter rates in …
Lynne Kiesling John Atkinson’s got another value-packed and informative post on energy policy at Winds of Change. Note in particular John’s discussion of investments and mergers in Europe. I would also add that he is kind enough to link to my earlier post about “deregulation” and the politics that prevent it from happening, and the …
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Lynne Kiesling Heartfelt congratulations to my friend and colleague Joel Mokyr, who has been awarded the Heineken Prize in History. The link to the press release is broken, but I paraphrase it thus: the prize is awarded for his work in the understanding of the knowledge base underpinning modern industrialization processes.
Lynne Kiesling These pictures of the Pittsburgh skyline from various locations are wonderful. They highlight what a gorgeous city my hometown is! Hat tip to I heart PGH.
Lynne Kiesling Earlier this week I gave a guest lecture in a class in the Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy at Columbia University. The topic shouldn’t surprise you: using technology and pricing to engage and empower electricity consumers (the link is to my presentation notes). It was a blast. We talked about …
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Lynne Kiesling Today’s Wall Street Journal has an interview with Giorgio Armani about the business side of his vastly successful fashion house (subscription required). Coming to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s for soft, yet elegant, tailored fashions for men and women, Armani has extended his name brand to home furnishings, fragrance, makeup, and accessories. …
Lynne Kiesling A coda (pun intended) to our music week features comes from this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, which had an article (subscription required) about U.S. hip-hop band Gnarls Barkley. Their single “Crazy” entered the U.K. singles charts at number 1, making this the first song to do so that has only been released on …
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Lynne Kiesling Check out the always-excellent New Energy Currents from John Atkinson at Winds of Change. John’s roundups are a valuable source of energy science, policy, and commentary news.
Lynne Kiesling As a follow up to my snotty remark about Windows Media Player and IE in my prior post, I found Grant McCracken singing the same tune when trying to access the Sony “Connect” music web site with Firefox. I find this a lot with music players at AccuRadio, RadioIO, and other places. Xfm …
Lynne Kiesling In my music post from Monday I mentioned that I had purchased a Mute Math. In fact, of the 6 CDs I’ve listened to (the other two are still on backorder), Mute Math is the one I like the best thus far. They are really, really below the radar screen, and I admittedly …
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