Scott Powell

With the arrival of summer's sweltering heat, California's electricity demand will rise as people engage in the perfectly natural act of manipulating the environment, as through air-conditioning, to make life better. But electricity supply will not be able to rise the...

In early January, a Southam-Pollara poll asked Canadians if government funding should be used to support "culture," meaning "books, films, music, and magazines." Respondents were almost equally for and against with a large contingent answering "I don't know." The...