I have long advocated for the introduction of Maglev, but the present dysfunctionality of air travel helps me make the point that air travel is not, and cannot meet the needs of our modern society. Snow storms of the magnitude we have seen lately makes airports dysfunctional. It also renders conventional rail useless. You may…

Whenever you read the news, you realize that the world suffers. This is nothing new. It has been going on for as long as I have been alive and of course throughout the history of the world. While this true, I like to recall the words of Dr Martin Luther King when he said “The…

There is no wealth in the world that did not emanate from working hands of the craftsman and/or the intellect of a worker. The portent of that observation should be obvious. As a young man I had the opportunity to be an elected official in a union. In the course of that work I made…