Laniece Thomas of Chicago gets into a ride-share car at O’Hare International Airport on Feb. 14, 2024. The editorial regarding Uber and Lyft leaving the Twin Cities as a cautionary tale for Chicago contains a number of omissions and incorrect assumptions . The article describes how hydrogen could play a significant role in achieving a net-zero future. Hydrogen can be created by electrolysis without carbon emissions if the process is powered by wind, solar or nuclear.
The key is to have automatic small increases in the carbon fee each year and to rebate the fee back to every household as a quarterly dividend check. With this type of “cash-back” carbon pricing, households would be unharmed economically from fossil fuel increases, while job growth would accelerate in the new clean energy economy, and harmful carbon emissions would diminish.
How much better it would have been to rename Lake Shore Drive as Barack Obama Lake Shore Drive. Not only is Lake Shore Drive more prominent and well known than Columbus Drive, but also, it lies just east of the site of the Barack Obama Presidential Center.Banners announcing the Chicago Marathon hang along Columbus Drive in downtown Chicago on Oct. 1, 2021. I am always amazed by the focus of Chicago aldermen, who are currently debating the idea of naming a street after Barack Obama.
The politics of each country surely are complicated, but to sanction and blockade Cuba since the 1960s is simply too much. If the U.S. thinks that people will rise up and overthrow their government, that would have occurred long ago. To maintain this status quo simply causes people to leave the country due to a ruinous economy that the U.S. did everything to create.
March 3) speaking to the complexity of the jobs we all perform every day. Yes, a president needs advisers. However as then-President Harry Truman famously said, “The buck stops here.”