Eavesdropping on Business-Speak, by John Stodder
Posted in Energy, Environment, Politics on Jun 17th, 2008
I liked this column by Robert Samuelson. I suspect that’s because, unlike John McCain and Barack Obama, he’s not running for office or trying to advance a party’s agenda, so he can afford to think about the shocking 90 percent increase in oil prices in less than two years in practical terms. Like this:
There’s […]
Posted in Employees, Environment on Jun 3rd, 2008
In the 1990s, I was part of a task force designed to increase telecommuting in the City of Los Angeles. At that time, oil was cheap, but traffic was horrible and air quality still (then as now) the worst in the nation.
We were mindful of the 1984 Olympics traffic experience, when just an 8 percent […]
Posted in Dolan Media, Energy, Environment, Law, Retail, U.S. Government, weather on Dec 17th, 2007
Before you break out your favorite Christmas movies, here’s a delectable selection of news morsels from around Dolan Media….
Shell Oil Company wants to extract oil from the Green River Formation, which contains one of the largest oil shale deposits in the world. According to the Colorado Springs Business Journal’s Amy Gillentine, the government’s […]
Posted in Dolan Media, Energy, Environment, Fiscal Policy, Health Care, Housing, Insurance on Dec 3rd, 2007
Sorry to have been such a quiet poster the past few days…been under the weather.
Here are a few stories from Dolan Media I wanted to get out of bed for.
The state-run Healthcare Group Arizona was supposed to be a self-sufficient health insurance plan for small businesses. Instead, “it’s in financial meltdown,” according to a […]
Posted in Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Trade on Nov 7th, 2007
The biofuel kick, prompted by concern for global warming, is driving up the cost of food in developing nations to the point where the trade has become “a crime against humanity,” according to a UN official quoted in this story from the UK Guardian. Writer George Monbiot begins with a painful allusion to Jonathan […]
Posted in Dolan Media, Employees, Energy, Environment, Technology on Nov 6th, 2007
Here are a few interesting stories our reporters have picked up the past day or two….
Portland’s one of those towns with some tasty microbrews. In fact, its unofficial nickname is “beertopia.” Today we learn from the DJC’s Libby Tucker that three local breweries are investing–a lot–in energy conservation schemes, including recovery of the intense […]
Posted in Dolan Media, Energy, Environment, Tourism on Oct 23rd, 2007
“Global warming is here.” That’s how Richard Kessel, until a few weeks ago the chief of the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA), greets Long Island BizBlog’s David Reich-Hale and Henry Powderly II when they meet at Kessel’s favorite breakfast spot, Mary Bill Diner in Merrick, N.Y. It’s mostly a chat about his personal plans, but Kessel did speak out […]
Posted in Dolan Media, Employees, Energy, Environment on Oct 22nd, 2007
Some gritty Dolan Media highlights for a Monday morning…
Despite recent passage of a new state law, anti-immigrant activists and business interests that benefit from immigrant labor are both turning to the ballot box to get their preferred fix, according to the Arizona Capitol Times’ Jim Small.
Neither measure has qualified yet, but a war of words […]
Posted in Dolan Media, Energy, Environment, Law on Oct 20th, 2007
If you want to keep track of how the environmental ethic is being translated into office building construction, you can’t do better than to read our Daily Journal of Commerce in Portland, Oregon. In fact, they’ve created a special “Sustainability Feed,” if you want to keep track of green developments in the Rose City.
How […]
Posted in Agriculture, Dolan Media, Environment on Oct 16th, 2007
Colorado Springs Business Journal reporter John Hazlehurst is almost finished with his comprehensive, six-part series about the Colorado River and how western states’ dependence on it is increasingly untenable due to persistent drought.
Part 5 is about Southern California, the bête noire of water geeks. For years, the region’s water wholesaler, the Metropolitan Water […]
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