Vermont is handling their heroin problem the right way

Heroin

Vermont (and many other rural states and areas) have a serious heroin problem, much of which was caused by our pill-happy federal government and a pharmaceutical industry who thought giving addictive opiates like Oxy for everything from hangnails on up…

Casinos increase percentage from slots, revenue drops

Video poker

A cautionary tale about being greedy and treating customers badly, casinos across the county have been increasing their hold, the percentage they keep, on slot machines. This has the contrary effect of lowering slot revenue because customers feel cheated and…

Using desalination to create desert cities from salt

Salt buildings in desert

This is thinking way outside the box. Use solar-powered desalination to create fresh water to grow crops in deserts and use the leftover salt mixed with epoxy to create buildings. Thus, no brine is pumped back into the ocean and…

California class action suit against Uber can proceed

Uber can whine all it wants about how innovative and world-changing it is but that doesn’t negate that under existing tax law, Uber drivers are almost certainly employees not contractors. A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled a class…

Company wants to ship water from Alaska to California

Alaska Bulk Water joins the parade of companies with hare-brained schemes to ship water to California, cost be damned. These have included building a pipeline from the Great Lakes, towing icebergs, and their idea to fill tankers with lake water…