Parklands Foundation - Merwin Preserve (Photo Diary)
Parklands foundation is a private, non-profit organization that has protected and preserved over 3200 acres of woodland along the Mackinaw River through Tazwell, Woodford, and McLean counties in...
View ArticleHow regulation came to be: Bhopal
When Mrs. d and I bought our first house in the late seventies, a run down farmhouse out in the country about a mile east of town, it seemed as if we had scarcely signed on the dotted line when it was...
View ArticleWhodunit?
Okay, I admit I am not the most observant person walking the planet. I'm probably not far removed from the absent-minded-professor -- sans the "professor" part in both credentials and education -- who...
View ArticleOh, it's on!
Late in December, the daily newspaper that lands on my doorstep each morning, the Bloomington (IL) Pantagraph ran an editorial highlighting a policy paper by the Illinois Policy Institute titled Still...
View ArticleThe Illinois Policy Institute -- now I see the light
I diaried a few weeks ago about the LTE exchange I had with the Illinois Policy Institute, one of thirty-some state-level, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)-affiliated organizations pushing...
View ArticleHow regulation came to be: The Buffalo Creek Act of God (repost)
This is a repost of a diary I wrote in 2010. Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the Buffalo Creek, West Virginia dam collapse that killed 125 people, many children, on a rainy Saturday morning in...
View ArticleHow regulation came to be: Pasteurization
I never met Clifford. No one in my family alive during my lifetime ever did, save for my grandmother. But if she remembered him, if she harbored any dim, shadowy two-year-old's memories of Clifford,...
View ArticleHow regulation came to be: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
I saw G__ on a number of occasions, though I never formally met him face to face. He frequently drove by our house when he escaped the Chicago area, where he lived most of the time, for his “retreat”...
View ArticleThe perpetual infancy of humankind: Echoes of the Triangle, 2012
Sadly, it’s not history from March 25, 1911: Witnesses said the workers, mostly women, ran for safety as the fire engulfed the plant but were unable to get through narrow exits. "Many jumped out from...
View ArticleHow regulation came to be: The Truman Highway Safety Conferences
There’s a factoid I once saw… Before I go too far, though, perhaps I should explain ‘factoids’ for the younger crowd. In the days before computer technology and publishing software made it possible...
View ArticleHow regulation came to be: The Cincinnati Who concert tragedy (repost)
When the Who (part of them, anyway) play the Dunkin'€™ Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island this coming Tuesday, February 26, 2013, promoters will be honoring tickets from a previous Who concert...
View ArticleHow regulation came to be: Monongah
The United States at the dawn of the twentieth century was a nation transformed. The rural, agrarian nation of Jefferson's time and Jefferson's vision had embarked on a Hamiltonian evolution, the...
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