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How to Reform the Electoral College

  • Politics
December 13, 2024December 16, 2024
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Many have suggested that it’s time to do away with the Electoral College.  I’m concerned, however, about how that will work.  So, I have some suggestions for making it more ‘democratic’. Since the problems of the year 2000, I have […]

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Building on Greenfields

  • Culture
December 9, 2021December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Some say that one of the solutions to our housing problem [indeed, their favorite solution] is building on land that has not been built on before.  There are a lot of issues surrounding this, however.  There are two ways of […]

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The New Southern Democrats

  • Culture,
  • Politics
December 16, 2020December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Large parts of the African American and Latino elements within the Democratic Party are the most moderate elements within the party, playing the same role as the mostly white Religious Right played within the Republicans.  A surprising new force has […]

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I Got Into a Traffic Accident in a Black Area, and Nobody Played the ‘Race Card’

  • California,
  • Culture
July 8, 2020July 14, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A story in which my own experience in a black neighborhood convinced me that the hope for reconciliation is not dead It was late February, and I was on my way to a men’s retreat in Malibu, California.  And I […]

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On the Urbanist Classic, “Crabgrass Frontier,” by Kenneth T. Jackson

  • Culture,
  • Economics
May 12, 2020July 7, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

One of the classic books on the history of suburbia is Kenneth Jackson’s Crabgrass Frontier. It came out in 1985, two years before my personal favorite, Bourgeois Utopias, by Robert Fishman.  This book notice discusses Crabgrass Frontier in view of […]

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Coronavirus and the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755

  • Culture,
  • Religion
March 28, 2020May 27, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Many of us are trying to figure out what God is trying to do by allowing this Coronavirus plague to circulate around the world so dramatically.  As I thought about this, I was reminded of a passage in Luke’s Gospel […]

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A Recent History of ‘Skinny Fat’ or How Fit Were People in the Old Days? 

  • Culture
June 14, 2019May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Recently in an airport, I saw and bought a rather provocative issue of Scientific American.  The cover declared that humans ‘evolved’ to exercise, while the most similar forms of life – chimpanzees and bonobos –  function very well as couch potatoes, according to […]

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Thoughts About Safe Encampments for the Homeless

  • California
October 3, 2018May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Sometimes we are inclined to overlook the economically homeless who actually have, or could have, jobs.  We may not be able to afford to get them all under a roof, but I think at the very least they deserve encampments […]

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Proposition 47 and the $950 Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card

  • Politics
September 28, 2018May 19, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Proposition 47, which was adopted by Californians in 2014, has been described as a ballot initiative with ‘unintended results galore‘.  It was based on a laudable desire to reduce the number of people in California’s overcrowded prisons who don’t necessarily, […]

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Unease about Self-Driving Cars

  • Culture
April 3, 2018August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Just recently, Arizona [a more progressive state than California, in the non-political sense] experienced its first pedestrian death at the hands [pardon the expression] of a driverless car.   My unease was thereby justified.  Computers and machines, for all their […]

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