The City Council held a meeting Monday night at which there was long and heated discussion about undoing the 4-month moratorium on data center projects before Planning & Zoning has had a chance to do their jobs. The attempt failed, thankfully, but I learned a great deal from the ...
President Trump's performance at last Friday's retooled White House Correspondents' Dinner made me nostalgic for the days of Vice President Spiro Agnew, President Richard Nixon's media attack dog. In a speech, Agnew called politicians critical of Nixon administration policies "nattering nabobs ...
Novelist Charles Dickens poked his quill pen at government bureaucracy 175 years ago with his accounts about a fictionalized department he called the "Circumlocution Office.” “Circumlocution” often is used with disdain to describe writing or speaking that is intentionally vague, ...
The 2026-27 hunting and trapping seasons will soon be upon us. There are several regulation changes heading into the upcoming seasons that I want to highlight in this article. Deer hunting licenses will now go on sale at 9 a.m. on Aug. 15, 2026. Online deer and turkey licenses sales will ...
When I sat down to write about data centers a week ago, I thought I was just writing about technology and communities — and especially, how communities can shape decisions about technology to provide benefits to the people who live there. And I still firmly believe that is possible. But ...
My son was furious when I picked him up from day camp, slamming the door when he got in the car. He had been downgraded from a "yellow" swimmer to a "red" swimmer. He hadn't forgotten how to swim. The YMCA had simply changed its policy. My son loves to swim. He likes donning goggles and ...
