News out just before Christmas that Lime has pulled its e-bikes from Seattle means that Uber (with its Jump brand) now has a monopoly on bike sharing in the city. This follows the departure of Ofo in the summer of 2018 after the city raised its annual fee for operators to $250,000, far above what […]
Assorted links – August 2019
Toddlers Don’t Have to Go to School Last fall, Harvard researchers published findings in the New England Journal of Medicine showing that in states with a Sept. 1 cutoff for kindergarten enrollment, children who were born in August were 30% more likely to be diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder than their peers who were born in […]
Big little climate lies
In episode 3 of this season’s star-studded HBO show ‘Big Little Lies’, Renata (played by Laura Dern) explodes when her daughter, Amabella, is hospitalized after suffering a panic attack as a result of her second grade teacher’s discussion about what global warming might do to the world. This leads the principal to call a school […]
The Incredible Whiteness of Washington State’s ‘Progressive’ Policies
(This first appeared in National Review on May 27, 2019) Democrats in the state government are harming blacks and helping whites. Washington State progressives who like to position themselves as allies of blacks are failing to live up to their promises. In the state’s most recent legislative session alone, Democrats passed several measures that will […]
A response to a hatchet job in Crosscut
An opinion piece published this week on Crosscut by Walter Hatch, who lives in the Phinney Ridge / Greenwood area, was bizarre. In it he suggests that most of his neighbors who comment on Nextdoor lack any compassion and are profoundly contemptuous of the homeless. While his piece amounts to nothing more than a whiny rant, it’s […]
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