Monday Morning Tabs
Steven L. Taylor
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Monday, August 18, 2025
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About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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I’m sure vendors hawking Trump/Maga apparel will remove and burn those items immediately.
Re: the NPR link about electricity costs–remember, one of the programs that has already been eliminated is LIHEAP. The low income home energy assistance program helps vulnerable people keep their electricity on, and it literally saves lives. If we have a bad winter, this is really going to be a problem.
Electricity prices are rising while at ere same time solar and wind costs keep decreasing. However, now that the right is in power in DC they are doing their best to slow down adaptation of these sources as they are seen as favored by the left.
Steve
I expect it to have a negative impact on the tourist business as well.
Those clothing items would at worst, provoke me to roll my eyes.
Thank goodness the VA Beach council wishes to save me from strain on my ocular muscles.
They really are looking out for me.
@Kylopod:..negative impact on the tourist business as well.
Why pass up a chance to be arraigned and fingerprinted in the same courthouse that processed Trump after his goon squad arrests you for spitting on the sidewalk?
@Kylopod: Agreed. I’m in NH, and we are seeing a spate of closings of smaller restaurants/bakeries/etc. Almost all of them cite a dip in business this summer as a reason. I can’t help but think that’s due to the loss of Canadian tourists who are typically here in the summer season. Whether it’s troops marching in completely safe areas in DC or no tourists from Canada, this administration is bad for small businesses.
And in the small, small area of good news, Newsmax pays Dominion for defamation.
Ka-CHINNNGGG!
@steve222:
The consumers used as an example are in Florida. Some of the Florida utilities are required to purchase power from the Vogtle 3 and 4 nuclear power facility. Vogtle 3 and 4 are delivering by far the most expensive power in Georgia, probably true for Florida as well.
My little local power authority — a non-profit owned by four municipal utilities here in northern Colorado — finished turning up their new solar farm this month. We are seeing brief periods where 100% of the owner community load is provided by hydro, wind, and solar. Those periods will get longer as we move into fall, when the wind blows more consistently and peak load declines.