Steve Goldstein (Twitter) hosted a conversation Tuesday on KJZZ’s Here and Now program with Ben Casselman about the “narrative”being advanced by “the media” (and developers) about the economic impact of the millennial generation, particularly their supposed preference for urban living. Casselman is the chief economics writer for Nate Silver’s Five ThirtyEight website (Twitter). You may […]
Scottsdale Chamber: Prominent Contradiction
A friend forwarded me this call-to-action from Rick Kidder at the Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce. It couldn’t have been better timed, given my multitude of recent articles on the issues to which this pertains, especially, “Logical Fallacies.” I’ve added some notes of my own here and there. Hello, For too many years, Scottsdale has […]
Scottsdale Civics Test
In a recent column in what is left of the Arizona Republic (Legislature OKs civics test, public education is saved) Laurie Roberts says, …Republican state officials who detest federal mandates in our schools are now not only embracing a test written by the feds but making it a graduation requirement. In the opening act of the […]