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How the next generation will live

Conventional wisdom says this next generation will be the first “not to live as well as their parents.”
I think that’s too subjective. Who says to live better you need a larger house, fancier car, nicer clothes, and affordable health care to remove genital warts… well, the last one they’ll need…
The fact is, the “next generation” [...]

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Streetcars off on the wrong track

There’s been lots of talk about streetcars in Columbus. This is a case where the romanticism of streetcars isn’t so practical in today’s world.
I read a letter in The Dispatch from someone who was around when the last streetcars were in town, and he rattled off all kinds of practical problems for electric streetcars today’s [...]

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008