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Know when to run
Continued from “Know when to walk away“ Knowing that there were a few more items we needed to procure for the rest of the project, my father-in-law and I hopped in the car and headed over to Home Depot ourselves. Since we were already there, we figured that we’d spend a few more minutes looking…
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It’s all “for the children”
Do you believe politicians when they say they’re making changes “for the children”? Think again. Our children face a future of rising taxes, squeezed — and perhaps falling — public services, and aging — perhaps deteriorating — public infrastructure (roads, sewers, transit systems). Today’s young workers and children are about to be engulfed by a…
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Didn’t they know it’s for the children?
I thought it was quite interesting to read this story about how the Holland School Board actually cut $1 million from their budget. Their reason? Simple. Welk said the goal to cut 5 percent from the budget stemmed from a shrinking school population that had shrunk from 1,450 to 1,050 over recent years — with…
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Despicability rating: 10
Generally I’d leave the analysis on Mary Kunz Goldman’s weekly typeset diarrhea to BuffaloPundit, but she blurted out something related to my beloved Terminal. With a shooting on Chippewa and gangsta rap in the Tralf, we wonder: How can we become an even bigger, badder Buffalo? Luckily, the Buffalo Central Terminal is stepping in, with…
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Buy American, er… Indian
So GM announced today that they’re investing over $300,000,000 to construct their second plant in India. “GM India’s Chaba said the company chose Maharashtra as the site of the new manufacturing facility because of advantages over labor skills, costs, infrastructure and geographic location.” I’m curious as to what UAW workers think of this. What’s worse…
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Distance: 48,000,000 mi (about 738,461.5 hours)
From the makers of Google Earth comes… Google Mars! Click on Spacecraft at the top to have it overlay all the touchdowns (successful and not). Sweeeeeet.