December 2008
10 posts
Time to Reboot America →
Taiwan’s Former President Is Indicted →
Obama’s ‘Secretary of Food’? →
“We’re subsidizing the least healthy calories in the supermarket … and we’re doing very little for farmers trying to grow real food… . One study suggests that [] large [industrial farming] operations receive, in effect, a $24 subsidy for each hog raised. We face an obesity crisis and a budget crisis, and we subsidize bacon?” (internal quotations omitted)
While Detroit Slept →
“Just last week, [Better Place electric car network], based in Palo Alto, Calif., announced a partnership with the state of Hawaii to road test its business plan there.”
Great news.
As More Eat Meat, a Bid to Cut Emissions - NY... →
“The trillions of farm animals around the world generate 18 percent of the emissions that are raising global temperatures, according to United Nations estimates, more even than from cars, buses and airplanes.”
The verdict is in: Job market tightens for law... →
“[T]he 150,031 students who were in enrolled in law school last year face a job market that is contracting for the first time in recent history.”
The death on Black Friday →
“[Consumers] have made [Wal-Mart] the largest employer in many states… . They wonder what happened to the good jobs their parents had and they blame unions.”
Where Would You Relocate for a Job? →
New York tops the list of American cities to which people want to relocate.
Interestingly, it also tops the list as America’s least desirable place to live and work.
That sounds about right.