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Keep government out of preschool

October 22, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

<Originally posted at Sound Politics> Government funded preschool is one of the latest public policy fads and unfortunately Seattle might catch on to it this election with two initiatives on the ballot. Although the Seattle Times editorial board got it right in recommending a no vote on Proposition 1A, it recommended we “hop on the […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: preschool, seattle

It’s not Ebola that scares us, it’s our government – or Bruni vs. Bruni

October 18, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

Frank Bruni wrote an Op-ed in the New York Times on October 14 entitled “Scarier Than Ebola” in which he argued that we should be more worried about things such as the flu, car crashes and skin cancer than Ebola. His argument immediately began to fall apart when I applied the lessons in logic I […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: CDC, Ebola, Frank Bruni, Government, New York Times, Obama

An inconvenient study part two

October 6, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr 1 Comment

(This post was originally published on Sound Politics and is a follow up to “An Inconvenient Study?“) My September post on the recent climate study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which concluded the rise in West Coast temperatures since 1900 was due to natural forces, generated some good comments from readers, some […]

Filed Under: Policy Rants Tagged With: climate change, global warming

The future of Hong Kong

October 2, 2014 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

The following is from my pre-blog archives. When I lived in Hong Kong in 1997, I was asked to write a semi-regular column under the banner “Postcard from Hong Kong” for a university newspaper in New Zealand. This article appeared on July 4 1997, three days after the United Kingdom transferred sovereignty of Hong Kong back […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: Hong Kong, journalism, new zealand

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I’m Nicholas, a marketing consultant and dad in Dallas, TX. I like to follow policy debates, chat about parenting and share stories. Read More…

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