Celebrating the meaning of the day As we stand by the graveside of a fallen soldier we are moved. That soldier may have been a casualty of a war but more likely he is a survivor that died later, as did my father. In either case that soldier served his country when summoned to do…

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…