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NIMBY Needs a Lot of Defending
NIMBY stands for Not In My Backyard. It's often employed as a shaming tool to portray those unwilling to turn their neighborhoods over to developers as selfish or even racist. It's a weapon in efforts to plow through zoning laws put in place to preserve a sense of community and the comfort of continuity.
Some peddlers of builders' interests ...Read more
Why Is Trump Sabotaging the U.S. Auto Industry?
If Chinese leader Xi Jinping wanted to take down the U.S. auto industry -- and he probably does -- he couldn't have a better helper than Donald Trump. The American president's tireless efforts to slow America's shift to electricity-run transportation is a dream come true for China as it leads the world in that transition.
Electric vehicles ...Read more
Trump Clearly Prefers Billionaires to His Base
Will the MAGA base ever figure out they've been played?
Farm country provided Trump with some of his most fervent support. Farmers are now being tossed aside by Trump policies, none of which he seems interested in dialing back.
A trade war would be disastrous. Farm products are a major U.S. export. Last year, the U.S. exported more than $30 ...Read more