Call Now: Vote Imminent on WCID No. 3
by Laura Brayfor the "Progressive Views" column, Boerne Star, February 8, 2019 "I Just Called To Say" by Jeremy Brooks is licensed under CC-BY-NC 2.0 This newspaper has been full…
Community Vision
by Kevin Henning, KCDP Chairfor the "Progressive Views" column, Boerne Star, January 4, 2019 Photo credit: Leah Rosenberger. Used by permission. Creating a Community Vision would be an excellent step…
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Progressive Views: DEI: What’s Going On
DEI initiatives are the right thing to do, but the current administration is using them as an cynical excuse for almost everything that goes wrong in the country and to distract us from ongoing efforts to willy-nilly dismantle government and government regulation. DEI efforts are needed as extremists strive to give the executive branch unchecked power.
Progressive Views: “The Economy Stupid”
Many U.S. Republican presidents in recent history have handed struggling economies to incoming Democratic presidents. Since the end of WWII, the U.S. economy has been better under Democratic leaders. Under Republican leaders, the rich have gotten richer and the poor, poorer. It’s time to vote for Harris and choose a president worthy of the position whose policies will reverse income inequality and push high-wage jobs and sustainable manufacturing.
Progressive Views: High Gasoline Prices – Who Should We Blame?
World markets determine the prices for most energy commodities with oil being the most important. The price of oil is the main factor affecting the price of gasoline and makes up about 50% of the cost of a gallon of gasoline. The other significant factors are margins, transportation, taxes, and refining operating costs. World crude demand is now about 102 million barrels per day and still growing slightly. We must move to renewables without forgetting the petroleum work
Progressive Views: COP 28 Climate Conference Yields Progress
COP 28 was held in Dubai and was chaired by the head of a national oil company. In addition to transition away from fossil fuels language, progress was made in a number of areas, including reduction of methane emissions (which account for about 30% of the Earth’s warming), increasing renewable energy, accelerating a switch to electric vehicles, and promoting carbon capture. Nuclear fusion is in the news and may be a silver bullet longer term. Of course conservation could help a bunch.
Progressive Views: Texas is My Home, Let’s Keep It Sane
Author relates his history and love for Texas and America with a plea to people to end the culture wars, the secession movement, and attacks against libraries with a particular indictment of Kendall county officials for their lack of knowledge of what the county libraries do.