Current theory says that a city's walkability promotes health and will impact the fight against obesity. The claim is that America's weight problem can be helped by making cities more pedestrian-friendly [http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/what/communities/topic_built_environ_walkability.html]. It should
The libertarian magazine Reason has published a list of the biggest nanny cities [http://reason.com/news/show/127481.html] in the country. The results for the big cities on the Pacific Coast are interesting. Portland is caught in a kind of "nanny sandwich" between Seattle and San Francisco. Apparent
Is beer the sleeper issue of the 2008 election? The folks at FiveThirtyEight seem to think so [http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/07/sleeper-issue-of-2008-beer.html]. Apparently, Cindy McCain's company, Hensley & Co. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hensley_&_Co.], is set to make at least a million bu
A number of bloggers have been looking into the Southern California habit of putting "the" in front of freeway numbers, as in "don't take The 5 because it's really backed up." People in other parts of California are alarmed at the spread of the habit throughout the state, and I've heard it creeping
Like the neighbors I rarely see until July, bats are making their appearances during the drawn-out summer evenings here in the Northwest. Flitting in the dusk, these nocturnal and flying mammals that use ultrasonic calls outside of our hearing range inhabit a world quite separate from mine. But Bats
