by Barry Fagin | Aug 25, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, May 23, 2013} Oh no! A highly successful American corporation has successfully avoided billions in taxes! I’m shocked, shocked to find that tax avoidance is going on in America. Congress should call a hearing...
by Barry Fagin | Aug 11, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, May 9, 2013} This week, I am ashamed to say, the U.S. Senate passed bill 743. It’s supposed to be cited as the ‘Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013. ‘ But if I called it that, I’d be violating every...
by Barry Fagin | Jul 28, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, May 8, 2014} “Technology always runs ahead of the law. It’s the job of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs to make politicians’ lives difficult.” I’ve tried to make that point to students...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 22, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Technology & Futurism
This TED Talk seems to contradict my general position that the private sector drives invention and innovation. After all, a well-funded government effort lost the race for manned flight to bicycle mechanics, and the Internet was in Black and Green until private geeks...
by Barry Fagin | Jul 21, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, January 24, 2013} The growing disparity between Colorado’s whites and nonwhites in virtually every important statistic of social well-being is a national disgrace. As the recent I-News series “Losing Ground” documents (full...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 12, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Technology & Futurism
{Received today from a communication I believe was sent through http://www.cispaisback.org/} Knowing of your support for an open and accessible internet, I wanted to let you know that I have signed onto Senator Ed Markey’s letter to the FCC regarding proposed...