Families are gathering around the table together and travel is forecast to be at its highest level in decades. Even the anticipated turkey shortage didn’t materialize, according to the USDA. After three long years of socially distanced holidays, we’re back to merely worrying about who might . . . ruin the feast by shouting at each other about politics. . .
Wells are running dry in California at a record pace. Amid a hotter, drier climate and the third consecutive year of severe drought, the state has already tallied a record 1,351 dry wells this year — nearly 40 percent over last year’s rate and the most since the state created its voluntary reporting system in 2014.
Tom Edsall writes data- and research-driven columns in the New York Times that frequently make my head spin and my heart sink. Today he did both by talking about a chair . . . . Edsall: David Autor is an economist at M.I.T. who has written on the role of the trade shocks that have … Continue reading Quote of the Week: What (& Who) Makes a Chair a “Chair”?
CNBC- PERSONAL FINANCE How college became so expensive, and how we can turn it around, according to a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist PUBLISHED THU, OCT 27 2022 Annie Nova@ANNIEREPORTER KEY POINTS How college became so expensive, and its consequences on families and U.S. society, are the issues explored in Will Bunch’s new book, After the Ivory … Continue reading The U. S. Higher Ed Crisis: How it Happened, How to Fix It
Jamelle Bouie is increasingly a voice crying in the wilderness, and increasingly important to read and remember, as in these excerpts: Minority Rule Is Steadily Undermining Our Democracy — Again Jamelle Bouie, New York Times – Oct. 21, 2022: