Blue skies have finally arrived over New Albany, and the snowfall has stopped. That can mean only one thing: time to shovel the driveway and help the neighbor dig his car out and give it a shove as he guns it up his driveway and into his garage. The blue skies and sunshine, though, make [...]
Archive for February 6th, 2010
Blue Sky, White Snow, Clear Ice
Posted in weather, tagged New Albany, Snow, Snowstorms on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Making Hard Budget Choices: A No Doubt Boring Look At NHTSA
Posted in America, Politics, tagged 2010 Federal Budget, America, Budget Deficit, budgets, Federal Debt, Federal Government, Making Hard Budget Choices, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, NHTSA, Politics on February 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The President recently released his budget proposal for 2010. It is a complex, difficult proposal to grasp, contemplating trillions of dollars in spending and trillion-dollar deficits extending, unbroken, into the foreseeable future. One of the problems for American taxpayers is that the federal government is so large, so sprawling, and so unwieldy that it is [...]
World Of White
Posted in Penny, weather, tagged house and grounds, New Albany, Penny, Snow, Snowstorms, weather on February 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A few snowflakes continue to drift down, but the first day of the big storm is over, leaving behind a world of white. We are guessing we received more than a foot of snow here in New Albany. On the morning after a big overnight snowstorm, stepping outside becomes an eerie, monochromatic experience. It is [...]