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Cut off the demand and there will be no need for heroin. Or think about it this way: you are paying to house, feed and clothe all of those addicts in jail. Why then not pay for these addicts to get help instead?If you still are not convinced, just listen to your better selves. Parkland […]

TH IS EACH OF THOSE THINGS HE WAS TRYING TO PRIVATIZE OURSELVES, CONSOLIDATING THAT POWER IS A POWER GRAB. WE WILL CORRECT IT AND GIVE IT BACK TO THE PEOPLE. MIKE: I WILL GIVE YOU MOMENT, YOU ARE ITCHING TO GET IN, ONE MORE QUESTION/ DO YOU THINK THE COUNTY BOARD, BASED ON WHAT YOU […]

Private companies and nonprofits are tapping into an enormous global need. An estimated 1.6 billion people, or more than one fifth of the world’s population, don’t have access to a public electricity grid and instead rely on other means of lighting such as kerosene and candles. Nearly 600 million of the energy poor live in […]

Sooner or later, in any complex system, something will go wrong. Systems can be made safer, but nothing can makes them safe. The shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, and the shuttle Columbia disintegrated 16 years later. Obviously the post office wasn’t built with access to financial services for citizens in mind. But by virtue […]

Phase I involved building a parking area and completing a multipurpose trail from Route 6 to the old Afton depot on the Nelson County side. Phase II is a bit more involved, removing two bulkheads installed in the tunnel in the 1950s. Once those are removed, then there will be some renovation work done in […]

The projects are of a different nature and come with larger budgets. My duties are more client facing, which involves management of internal resources, design schedules and budgets. Previously I was part of architectural production with most of my time spent at the drawing board.. With its lack of a sign, abundance of tasteful carpentry, […]

Quite a few American manufacturing jobs did go abroad in early stages of globalization, in the 1980s and 1990s, but that’s old news. Eighty five per cent of the almost six million American manufacturing jobs that disappeared between 2000 and 2010 did not go anywhere; they evaporated. Workers were replaced by tireless, uncomplaining machines that […]

This overpriced and ungainly hatchback was the low point of Honda’s recent product planning woes. Anybody even vaguely familiar with American automotive taste could have told Honda we didn’t want a large and expensive hatchback with a tiny cargo space as its flagship model, but Honda wasn’t listening. The Crosstour debuted to widespread dismay in […]