April 3, 2016
Commentary: Are we inducing demand for road projects? Posted: Friday, April 1, 2016 12:00 pm By John Diers “Induced demand” is economist speak for a phenomenon that occurs when increasing the supply of something makes people want to use it even more — like ice cream. First identified and applied to road building in the […]
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March 19, 2016
This will be a difficult election year. People are angry with government that is both unfair and unaccountable—government that allows special interests and millionaires to pay no taxes while working and middle class families struggle to send their kids to college and save for retirement and seniors on fixed incomes face property tax hikes and […]
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Commentary: It’s good to question need for large referendum amount
April 16, 2016Posted: Friday, April 15, 2016 12:00 pm By John Diers Growing up, most of us spent roughly 180 days a year in school. We loved it. We hated it. We had teachers both good and bad. There were moments of excitement and insight interspersed with hours of interminable boredom and pedagogy. We were given facts […]