By: dt (Diary)  |  November 19th at 01:06 AM  | 

I recently came across a September 2009 New Yorker article (abstract is free subscription required to read the whole thing) written by James B. Stewart entitled “A Reporter at Large, Eight Days.” Though the article is an excellent and extremely detailed account of the eight days proceeding and immediately following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, one thing in the article really stood out to me.  | Read More »

By: dt (Diary)  |  April 9th at 04:54 PM  | 

This story brought a smile to my face.  It’s good to see that people haven’t forgotten that government isn’t always needed to solve problems that affect a local community.  Sometimes a better solution can be local people banding together to resolve a problem more quickly and efficiently than might otherwise occur. Our country was built with just this sort of can-do attitude, and its refreshing | Read More »