I wrote an op-ed piece that I sent out to the local papers. Check it out here. My favorite paragraph is #3 — I could write a dissertation on my feelings about the corruption of the political system, from the local level on up. But as the saying goes, democracy is the worst form of [...]
This is going to be a totally non-partisan, unbiased, 100% fact-based statement: I just got our 2010 healthcare statement and our costs are going up 28%. There is no change in the number of insured or the age brackets they fall in. Nothing’s changed except the rate. Ok, here’s the somewhat-partisan, biased commentary: 28% in one [...]
I kinda nerded out tonight and was checking out where recovery funds have gone around Goshen. This is what I found on Recovery.gov. I’m not clear on what all this money is going to though. I mean, what’s “CONT RENEWALS ALL TYPES” mean? And how can you get a negative grant? Also, I’m pretty sure [...]
No matter what your politics, I think we can all agree that our healthcare system needs reform. The devil’s in the details, of course. It is super-shady that my insurance company, Anthem (owned by Wellpoint), sent me an email yesterday about how the current healthcare proposal is bad and encouraging me to contact my legislator [...]
Just approved by the county plan commission and headed to the commissioners for approval is a new county ordinance here in Elkhart County, Indiana, regulating outdoor electronic (and digital) signs. Here are the major stipulations: there are three zoning districts where the use of electronic signs and message boards will be permitted: business districts, or [...]
WalkScore is this nifty little website I blogged about back in 2007 — it gives you a numerical rating of the walkability of a location (our office is an 89, what’s your home/office?), with certain limitations, the main one being that it calculates distances based on how the crow flies, so, if there’s a lake [...]
Last week, I had the privilege (along with 900 other people) to hear Bill McKibben speak at Goshen College as part of the Yoder Public Affairs lecture series. For those of you in the green world, Bill’s a household name, for those of you not, you need to find out more about what he’s up [...]
I’m sitting at the airport on my way back from Texas to the great white north. So I figured I’d get a blog post in. The following is an op-ed piece I submitted to the local papers as well as some larger nationals. It’s based on this blog post. While the Washington Post refused it [...]
Yesterday, I attended the Goshen Redevelopment Commission’s monthly meeting where they opened for the first time bids for the River Race project, an area of about 22 acres, right behind my house, that is currently a brownfield and abandoned warehouse but that Redevelopment would like to see developed. There was just one bid, from All [...]
This post builds on my earlier one, titled Interesting Times, where I stated that “the seeds of the recovery and our economic future are being planted” now. A couple tidbits that I’ll connect (promise): Circumstances haven’t changed much since I wrote that post just over 2 years ago, other than that Elkhart County is making [...]
