Filling the News Hole: Advantage, Left

I’ve always enjoyed reading the lefty press—the honest-to-goodness lefty press, not the mainstream one that masquerades as impartial—because it tends to put a premium on information and sometimes reporting. If that side is indeed more informational than its right-wing counterparts, maybe that’s because the documentary instincts are stronger among the camp that sees its struggle

5 at Feed: Ozy, Vietnam, Vegan Virtue, School Counts, Pakistan

10/1/21 This busy week features a fivesome of punditry nuggets at Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) In reverse order, there’s the scandal that is overwhelming the once-adored (if unread) Ozy Media, the conflict that pits Vietnam’s quest for global commerce against its authoritarian state, the pretentious veganism of a star Manhattan chef, the latest

My Feed: Global Gig Slog, Syph Babies, Thai Visas, Freight Rail

Here’s the past week’s foursome from Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) –my mini-commentaries off the recent media. This assortment includes: A review of the plight of “gig”-app drivers and delivery people around the world that forgets what these souls were doing before; a startling look at an upsurge in births from mothers with syphilis,

3 At Feed: DHS & TSA, China’s Richest and Food Labeling

This week, Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) hosts a trifecta of mini-commentaries plucked from the pages of our working press. Any anniversary of Sept. 11 would not be complete without a pass at its bureaucratic legacy, the Department of Homeland Security. As well, there’s a thought about the future tycoons of China, now that

At the Feed: Ida’s Rebuild, ‘Traffic Violence,’ Gen-Z Invests, Vax Cards, Dailies in Distress

This week at Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) are *5* brief comments from items in the current press. Of course, the post-Ida storm response is one–should we keep tempting fate by restoring communities? Also: the alleged injustice of “traffic violence,” the reassuring aspect of Gen-Z’s bent toward equities (as opposed to equity), the tricky

At My Feed: Trains, Planes, Hospitals, Wall St. Touts

At Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) this week, you can read my quick observations on current topics: Commuter-train counts show how dreadfully slow is Manhattan office districts’ rebound from the pandemic pounding; airports such as LAX are rich public assets just waiting to be turned into funding sources to rescue indebted municipalities like Los

Week’s Feed: Henri Blows, Asian Negation, NYC Crime

This week at Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) is a trio of items touching on what the latest big storm (Henri) to hit the East Coast should remind us about living and building on the edge of cruel nature; on the latest disappointments in Covid-wracked Southeast Asia, which are not just economic; and on

Housing Boom? Not in Land of Lincoln

You’d think housing prices are rising everywhere in America, the way the current boom is discussed. And that’s nearly true, for lots of reasons: the low interest rates on mortgages; the bidding up of asset prices at a time of loose money; the desire for bigger and more distanced properties in the pandemic, and  the

At My Feed: Coffee Jolt, Gen-Z Blues, Ozark Immigration, Newsletters

This week’s quartet of mini-commentaries at Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) addresses the latest coverage of increases in coffee-bean prices; the costly lives of Millennials and Gen-Z (not just their joes!) and whether parents aren’t helping; the missing politics of an economic look at immigration in the Ozarks, and the popularity of digital “newsletters”

This Week at Feed: Student Debt, Homeless, Convention Centers

At Newsfeed – Tim W. Ferguson (timwferguson.com) are three new items this week, all on matters of big looming taxpayer obligations: The $1.7 trillion in U.S. post-secondary student debt, the seemingly intractable problem of people from living on America’s urban streets, and the vast convention centers that municipalities erected to try to attract a very