Quickies: Concert industry oh-noes
- We were talking about the Alerus Center and its concert industry woes and, looky here, here’s some woes for the industry, too.
- A colleague passed along this story about the reliability of unmanned aircraft. We’ve talked about the reluctance of federal regulators to let unmanned aircraft operate in civilian space for fear of accidents. Stories like this one seem to make a case for that point of view.
- Sometimes we don’t appreciate how good it is to live in a country where government actually works most of the time. I stumbled on these photos recently and it doesn’t seem to be made up. This is a group of residents of Vladivostok in the Russian Far East fed up with the city’s failure to maintain what appears to be a main thoroughfare; they decided to fill one of the potholes themselves to shame City Hall. I like the girl directing traffic in fishnet stockings.
- Kimberly Hess, the florist I talked to the other day, is getting more mileage out of my story. I got an e-mail Friday from an industry group that saw her story on this blog.
Regarding UAV and your comments: The demand for UAVs is increasing expoentially in this country – mostly for security and crime fighting. The Feds may as well get it together regarding a shared airspace because they will never be able to freeze or close out airspace solely for the UAV operations which will ultimately occur over large cities and populated events involving the masses.
As UAV technology continues to improve and human experience with it grows, it’s likely to become safer, not more hazardous. The military’s experience seems to bear this out.
Where is the discussion about retooling The Alerus? Throwing more money at the property is not the solution. Kicking the can down the road just prolongs the agony and digs it deeper and further away from a long term solution.
I chuckle when righties moan about broken government. How many places are there where you can reliably mail a letter 2000 miles and have it delivered in less than 4 days for less than $.50. Social Security and medicare are much more efficient, and compassionate I might add, than private healthcare. These programs are running out of money because of an aging population, not because of mismanagement.
Guess you missed the part where Medicare & SS are almost broke. Medicare is full of fraud. And don’t forget that the majority of a private healthcare expense is government paperwork.
Guess you missed the part where Medicare & SS are almost broke. Medicare is full of fraud. And don’t forget that the majority of a private healthcare expense is government paperwork.
Guess you missed the part that MOST of the reason SS and Medicare are broke is because of population trends and not fraud and mismanagement, i.e., namely the baby boomers. To ignore this in favor of political ends, is a distortion.