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Columns
Passing
the Baton
After
six great years, the time has come to step down from the
Bacon's Rebellion e-zine. It's been fun,
rewarding -- and exhausting.
by
James A. Bacon
Who
Will Report the News?
How's
this for irony: The knowledge economy craves information
more than ever, but newspapers and print media are
imploding. Where will Virginians get their news in the Internet
age?
by
James A. Bacon
Katrina
Yet Again
The
hurricanes keep coming -- and they always will. We can
continue Business As Usual, making ourselves more
vulnerable, or we can evolve safer, better protected
human settlement patterns.
by
EM Risse
A
Picture is Worth a Thousand Lies
One
reason it's so hard for people to envision
functional human settlement patterns is that the
images peddled by the Business-As-Usual crowd are
so deceptive.
by
EM Risse
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes
Turn
and face the strange: An African-American from
Illinois and a woman from Alaska have infected
millions of Americans with a thirst for change.
Will Virginia heed the call?
by
Michael Thompson
Making
the World a Better Place -- with Other Peoples'
Money
We
all want change. The question is, whom do you trust to
deliver it -- a government run by self-appointed
elites, or friends and neighbors working as volunteers?
by
Norman Leahy
The
Numerati
In
the land of the mathematically challenged, the "numerati"
rule as kings. These inscrutable geniuses massage the
data that drives business decisions -- and,
increasingly, determines who wins elections.
by
Peter Galuszka
Departments
Nice
& Curious Questions
A
Rocky Business: Quarries in Virginia
by
Edwin S. Clay III and Patricia Bangs
Bacon's
Rebellion - the Blog
Read
the Bacon's
Rebellion blog daily. Here
are the blog posts that have been generating the most commentary:
1.
The
Transmission Line Saga Continues
2.
FANNIE
AND FREDDIE
3.
Climate
Change Commission Ponders Recommendations
4.
Traffic,
Humans and Culture
5.
Taming
Virginia's Hardened Landscapes
6.
A
Mighty Wind (Farm) in Virginia Beach
7.
Salvaging
Tysons
8.
How
Much Profit at Carilion Is too Much
9.
The
Liberal Intelligentsia and Race
10.
Tough
Spending Medicine
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