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After High School

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:January 10, 2020
Post Category:Social

Is the college dream still what it was cracked up to be? How many young people go to college, get bogged down in debt, and never really use their college…

Radon

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:January 5, 2020
Post Category:Science

New Hampshire (my home state) is currently having an argument about what the safe level should be for indoor air radon concentrations. Radon is a fascinating environmental issue as I…

Guns

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:November 20, 2019
Post Category:Social

The NRA funded over $2 Million last year for high school shooting clubs. There are more guns in America than people. US gun violence is 50 times that of the…

A Real Public Service

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:October 10, 2019
Post Category:Politics

More useful than the Hunger Games reality TV “debates”, would be some kind of central clearing house (e.g., website) that lists each candidate’s position on pertinent topics. Let the candidate…

Lies

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:September 20, 2019
Post Category:Politics

Fact-checkers note that the US president has lied publicly well over 10,000 times. It is ironic that this same fellow invented the term, “fake news” – a reprehensible concept that…

Poor Representation

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:September 10, 2019
Post Category:Politics

One of the great battles of the Constitutional Convention was about government representation among small states vs big states. The Electoral College was one outcome of that issue. So was…

Last Chance

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:July 4, 2019
Post Category:Politics

NBC’s “Democrat Debate” looked more like the Hunger Games than a public service to sort out the candidates. The moderators gave uneven time to the candidates, the candidates interrupted and…

Judge-Maker

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:June 20, 2019
Post Category:Politics

Although most of his departments lack permanent leaders and he has no coherent policies, the one thing Donald Trump is accomplishing is judge appointments, including two to the Supreme Court. …

Eye Opening

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:June 10, 2019
Post Category:Social

A recent trip to Europe revealed a US left behind. Cranes rose everywhere, infrastructure gleamed, everything was clean, people were energetic, public transportation was effective, and space was used smartly. …

Not Really One Vote

Post Author:Shifrin
Post published:May 10, 2019
Post Category:Politics

American democracy is just that – its own version of democracy. This became clear when thinking about the Senate and the Electoral College. The basic definition of democracy is a…