Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown scaling back Delta Tunnels proposal

After seven years of resistance and fightback against the Twin Tunnels boondoggle that would shunt water from the Sacramento Delta southward to the Central Valley and Southern California, California Governor Jerry Brown is thinking of scaling it back to just…

Municipal broadband. Ammon, Idaho leads the way

The small town of Ammon, Idaho needed broadband. Rather than going with big cable or big telco, they did it themselves. They used existing budgets for water, school, fire, and other municipal services to build the grid then – and…

Iran protests are genuine, huge, deserve support

Saying the Iran protests are somehow stage-managed by Washington is American Exceptionalism. It implies the US somehow controls the planet and that protesters, some of whom have been killed, are unknowing puppets. Which is really kind of insulting to the…