When I woke this morning, I scanned social media, brewed some coffee and shortly after checked email. I was saddened and shocked to discover in my inbox a news alert that at least 50 people were dead and more than 50 wounded in a mass shooting in a gay nightclub hours earlier in Orlando. The […]
On politics
Let me be optimistic about the times we live in. Perhaps the silver lining to this insane election year is that more people are getting engaged in politics and awakening to the importance of it. Every other week it seems another person in my social media circle posts something starting with “Okay, I don’t post […]
Bernie Sanders, Sweden and New Zealand
I survived socialism. So it’s always surprised me that Bernie Sanders is fond of saying America should look more like Scandinavian countries such as Sweden. Because what’s made Sweden the success it is on many of the metrics Sanders loves to point to aren’t the policies Sanders espouses. On the contrary, the reforms he wants […]
Keep your schedule ideas to yourselves
Two Seattle council members, Lisa Herbold and Lorena González are proposing regulating employees’ schedules in the city. Some are calling the idea “livable schedules” and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer supports it because he argues: “Most workers in our economy have very little leverage or bargaining power and owners and people like me have enormous amounts […]
Pumping up freedoms in Oregon
Two cheers for a tiny wave of liberty rippling through the state to our south. Beginning January 1, some Oregonians will have their right to pump their own gas restored to them. A whole host of reasons are cited for the law that has made pumping your own gas in Oregon punishable by a fine […]
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