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Sorry, I have not been posting much. I knew I needed to change the blog over to a new provider, and just made the switch, and of course there have…
Sorry, I have not been posting much. I knew I needed to change the blog over to a new provider, and just made the switch, and of course there have…
I wish I could say that my erudite writing and trenchant observations were what brings most people to this site. In reality, it is the goofy jokes, pointed cartoons, snarky…
The narrative surrounding the issue of fixing Daylight Saving Time has evolved from being a niche topic, to being a legitimate concern for state and national legislators. That’s great. As…
After a few days of this blog being down (grrrrrrr) it seems to have been fixed, so welcome! I will use this post just to collect some of the best…
I have a search set up so that once a day, I get an email with all the stories that mention “Daylight Saving Time” and the last couple of weeks…
I know that headline doesn’t make a ton of sense. In short, it’s my way of saying that it is time for me to get back to work on this…
Spoiler alert? In the excellent movie Everything Everywhere All At Once, there is a great scene that is unlike the rest of the movie, where the noise/music/dialogue/action all stop and…
When I was a candidate to be U.S. Representative, I personally talked to about two thousand people about fixing Daylight Saving Time. The response was overwhelming: People absolutely want to…
(During my short-lived campaign to be a U.S. Representative, I got such great response from voters I talked to about my plan to #LockTheClock. I also got a bunch of…
I am now a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, which is a thing I just never imagined saying before and I am still getting used to it. The…
Here is the statement I provided at the request of the staff from the House Energy & Commerce subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce: Thank you for this opportunity to…
Just a quick post to highlight a great story done in the Wall St. Journal. The story is similar to many of the others done this time of year, but…
It is a big week for those who want to #LockTheClock. It is the week before the change, so we all haven’t been robbed of an hour of sleep and…
Right off the top, let me say that this is not the most important thing about Putin’s war on Ukraine. I totally understand that. The war is horrifying. I write…
Close readers of this blog may have been wondering why it has been so quiet of late. Truth is, I’ve just been a bit busy. This has always just been…
The narrative surrounding the issue of fixing Daylight Saving Time has evolved from being a niche topic, to being a legitimate concern for state and national legislators. That’s great. As…
One of the all-time great journalism movies is Absence of Malice. The movie is about a reporter played by Sally Field, and a guy who gets falsely accused of being…
During most of the year, most of my blog traffic here goes to the home page, the DST legislation page and the research page. But right around the time changes,…
I was a reporter for years before I became a startup founder, and so I always try to be as accommodating as I can when reporters contact me, especially if…
Greetings to my surprisingly large number of readers from Europe! In whatever language you use, you generally refer to the period where the clocks are an hour later as summertime instead…
Well, we’ve now had the first state- or province-wide vote on the issue of Daylight Saving Time, and unfortunately the result did not go the way I had hoped as…
Just a quick post with a really thoughtful and fun podcast from CNN. </p> <p>&nbsp;</p> If that embedded player doesn’t work, you can find it here. Overall I thought…
I’ve written before about how I think that politicians have used Daylight Saving Time as a distraction from some other topic. Probably the clearest example was when Nixon ordered a…
The classic movie Bridge Over the River Kwai is now more than 60 years old, so if you haven’t seen it, well, too bad, I’m going to ruin the ending…
Alberta is not the most famous of the Canadian provinces. It’s probably best known as the home of Calgary, and the 1988 Winter Olympics, which became even more famous because…
Dear Nate, I hope you don't mind me calling you that. I know you are a duly elected member of Alberta Legislative Assembly, but you are also Canadian, so my…
Close readers of this blog my note that I have not written in a while. Sorry about that. Just busy with my day job and personal life. I’m being prompted…
Recently the United States went through a tricky couple of weeks where use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for Covid-19 was suspended, and then reinstated. The problem? Out of…
Of all the oddities of Daylight Saving Time, one of the oddest is that the United States shifts the clocks the second Sunday of March, and much of Europe does…
Sometimes on this blog I back into the news at a leisurely pace. For this one, well... here’s the story I would have written back when I was a reporter:Supermajority…