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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | JAMES COLEMAN |Tom Elia
Palm Beach County voters elected three mayors in municipal elections Tuesday night. In Boynton Beach, Rebecca Shelton defeated three opponents to win the seat, which had been held by Ty Penserga, who has served three years and is term-limited. In Jupiter, Jim Kuretski was reelected, defeating council member Cameron May with about 57% of the vote.
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2 months ago | 
aei.org | James Pethokoukis |JAMES COLEMAN
Energy, transportation, housing — pro-growth advocates from Washington to Silicon Valley are calling for a revival of American infrastructure. They say, “It’s time to build.”One massive problem, however: decades of environmental regulation, such as the National Environmental Policy Act, have slowed these efforts to a snail’s pace, if not halted them altogether. Today on Political Economy, I talk with James Coleman about the kinds of policy reforms need before we can build.
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2 months ago | 
cityfarmer.info | JAMES COLEMAN |Michael Levenston
“One, we want to help people grow food, also be a little bit more sustainable and bring communities together,” Sarah adds. By James ColemanRiotact19 January 2025Excerpt:While many Canberrans might be painfully aware of the rule that forbids parking on the nature strip outside your home – known by the ACT Parking Infringement Guide as “stopping on a path/strip in a built-up area” – it turns out there are other uses for it. Vegetables, anyone?
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
aboutregional.com.au | JAMES COLEMAN
Technically, yes, we invented the ute. You probably know the story about how a Victorian farmer’s wife wrote to Ford in the 1930s, asking for something they could use to go to church on Sunday and take the pigs to market on Monday. But it took the Americans to inject it with a Big Mac dose of steroids and call the result – quite aptly – a ‘pickup truck’. And in recent years, they’ve been bringing them over here to show us the handiwork.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
regionriverina.com.au | JAMES COLEMAN
Should I be concerned? Yes, I turn 26 next year, which means that if I were Leonardo di Caprio’s girlfriend, I should expect him to start flirting with the waitress the next time we go out. I’m also married and have two kids, and I have an air fryer on the kitchen bench. I already make noises when getting out of chairs. And a few months ago, I bought potting mix from Bunnings. For my lavender plants. But this week, my age really caught up with me: I was left very impressed by a Toyota Camry.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
aei.org | Brian Potter |Alec Stapp |JAMES COLEMAN |Michael Strain
Critics contend that the current policies and regulations for building physical infrastructure in the US are too time-consuming, limiting both public and private investment and hindering projects aiming to produce and deliver energy in particular. While Congressional interest in potential permitting reforms frequently focuses on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), NEPA is just one of many federal, state, local, and tribal permitting requirements.
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Dec 24, 2024 | 
thisiscanberra.com | JAMES COLEMAN
Bunda Street in Civic is not exactly known for its serenity at the best of times but the atmosphere was pierced with an extra dose of noise when the 2025 Canberra Festival of Speed launch hit town. ‘Delicious symphony’ would be a better way of putting it – composed by the collective exhaust pipes of a Lamborghini Aventador, Ferrari P4 (of Ford V Ferrari movie fame), Ferrari 360, Porsche Cup car, Formula-3 Mercedes, and last but definitely not least, Harry Bates’ rally-spec Toyota GR Yaris.
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Dec 21, 2024 | 
thisiscanberra.com | JAMES COLEMAN
The first public access point to the Murrumbidgee River on Canberra’s northside in 20 years has opened, as part of a new bushwalk in the Ginninderry development in the ACT’s far northwest. The ‘River Descent Track’ joins more than 10 km of existing trails constructed in the backyard of the up-and-coming suburbs of Strathnairn and Macnamara by local environmental group Ginninderry Conservation Trust.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
the-riotact.com | JAMES COLEMAN
For many Canberrans travelling home from work yesterday, the day’s heat had one final nasty card to play. Several major roads across the ACT, including Drakeford Drive in Tuggeranong, Hindmarsh Drive in Woden and William Hovell Drive in Belconnen, turned to sticky mush on 16 December as temperatures soared to a high of 38 degrees Celsius. “I drive carefully … on Drakeford Drive and … there was stuff stuck to my tyres,” one person posted to the Canberra Notice Board Group on Facebook.
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Dec 13, 2024 | 
thisiscanberra.com | JAMES COLEMAN
In the 1970s, scientists claimed cocaine and heroin were intrinsically addictive after a study that involved placing a rat in a cage. They connected the rat to a drip and injected the subject with the drugs whenever it pressed a button. But a few years later, another researcher argued this original study was rigged because it had isolated an otherwise social animal in a cage and given it nothing to do except press a button. Was it really a surprise it pressed the button?
