At the latest count, more than 100 people died in the Maui fire that also burned most of the town of Lahaina. read more »
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Unsold Electric Cars May Be Signaling a Death Spiral for the Auto Industry
With new EV inventories beginning to increase on dealer lots, the auto industry has many challenges such as locating the buyers that may have serious concerns about a wide range of issues related to EVs read more »
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Class, Nation, and the Future
“Politics is really downstream from culture.” Andrew Breitbart’s assertion, echoing the ideas of the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci, has become a watchword both for the Right and Left. This culture-first approach has fostered a politics read more »
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The Question of "Developed" Land -- And Its Impact On Housing
One of the often-used arguments from advocates for increasing housing supply in our nation's most expensive cities is that zoning policy, or the regulation of land use by local government, has kept an artificially low ceiling on housing development read more »
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Report: How Will California Solve the Housing Crisis?
This new report examines the housing crisis in California and strategies to create more housing at affordable price points. Below is a summary and a link to download the full report read more »
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New Jersey Challenges New York’s Cordon Fee Plan
With federal approval of New York’s environmental assessment, most of the federal, state, and local obstacles to New York City’s cordon pricing plan — which almost everyone erroneously calls a congestion pricing plan read more »
Massive Riots, Renewable Resentments
The warnings about the landscape-destroying sprawl of wind and solar energy have been coming for nearly two decades. The warnings have come from some of the world’s most prominent scientists, government agencies, and energy analysts. read more »
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Debating Gavin Newsom Will Boost Ron DeSantis
A potential face-off on Fox TV between Florida’s Ron DeSantis and California’s Gavin Newsom may not remind anyone of Lincoln versus Douglas, or even Kennedy and Nixon. read more »
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America: Moving to Lower Densities Post-2020 Census Data
Driven, at least in part, by the huge increase in the potential for remote work, US residents moved in large numbers to states with lower urban densities read more »
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Dear Sputla, Stand Up to NGO Industrial Complex
Dear Sputla, please burn more coal.
The Minister of Electricity, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, known fondly as Sputla, recently said that if he had his way, he would go and restart the Komati Power Station read more »
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