West Mifflin Area School District

August 1, 2016 by

Christmas in Europe Coming Under Leaden Skies

AGRINIO, Greece — There is not a dark cloud hanging over Europe. There are a bunch of them. Taken together they account for a sense of foreboding, not quite despair, but a definite feeling that things are unraveling and, worse, that there is no leadership — second-raters at all the national helms. That was the […]

Time for a Little Trumpish Positive Non-Believing

Llewellyn King

I’d like to introduce you to the power of not believing. There is, as President Trump has pointed out, too much believing going on and it is time for a national re-evaluation. Take, for example, all this erroneous believing about sea-level rise. Guru Trump doesn’t believe in that, so it’s not happening. Billions of dollars […]

Blockchain, Smart Cities and the Urban Revolution

Llewellyn King

Blockchain, the decentralized, open-ledger system which can record permanently multiple transactions, is about to come into its own as the world’s cities move towards digitalization. It portends the kind of urban revolution that cities haven’t seen since water-borne sewage enhanced city livability. These “smart cities” of the future, big and small, will compete to be […]

As in 1986, A President Has Tainted Thanksgiving

Linda Gasparello

Thanksgiving was usually a happy time for the elegant British-American broadcaster Alistair Cooke, whose “Letter From America” series on BBC Radio 4 captivated his millions of listeners for over half a century. Cooke summed up his talent as “associating something quite tiny with something big. In other words, just looking at the way humans behave.” […]