Michael Bryan by Karl Reiner The lack of oversight tied with deregulation allowed the American financial industry to make a big change in how it operated. Over a short time, it switched from managing the allocation of capital to companies to an industry dedicated to making big commissions by flogging increasingly exotic and complex securities to investors … Read more
This may seem like blasphemy: the House Bill on energy known as The American Clean Energy Act is the most detrimental bill the House has passed since the Patriot Act. Like the Patriot Act, it is not what it says it is. It should never become law. It is not a clean energy bill. … Read more
This is what you should be watching. The WarningTuesday, October 20, 2009, at 9 P.M. ET on PBS In the devastating aftermath of the economic meltdown, FRONTLINE sifts through the ashes for clues about why it happened and examines critical moments when it might have gone much differently. Looking back into the 1990s, veteran FRONTLINE … Read more
By Michael Bryan Tucson's ballot initiative to peg the ratio of emergency personnel to population seems to me to be the latest iteration of populist discontent being cynically used to snatch at political power while denigrating and disempowering representative democracy. Too frequently over the past few decades we have seen progressive institutions such as the … Read more
By Karl Reiner The water level in the Colorado River’s storage lakes has been steadily dropping, leading to the possibility that Tucson will face a water shortage in the future. As consumers of local ground water and supplies from the Colorado, we need to start paying attention to the problem. The combined effects of population growth, drought and global warming trends are turning the region’s water future murky. … Read more