As of this coming July 1, kids from kindergarten through eighth grade won’t be suspended when they misbehave. Of course, since most kids won’t be in school, anyway, on July 1, and therefore not misbehaving there, I’m finding the scheduled launch of this new law a little counterintuitive.
It’s a little like banning the…
Read MoreI have a very distinct memory of Amtrak’s dining car, which the company says it plans to abolish—the dining car, not my memory. (“No, no, they caaaan’t take that away from me…” Oh, for God’s sake, younger readers. Download “Shall We Dance,” 1937, Fred Astaire, Ginger …
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My market research consultant York Ray-Zee—please sound out her name and we’ll get along just fine—burst into my office a few moments ago, all “het’ up.” (“Het’ up” is an expression no one I know actually says, along with “’Sup?”)
“Dr. Goldman,” she respectfully said …
Read MoreA billion dollars in 2019 money is, like, a billion dollars.
I mention this because 13 years from now, you’re likely to see a sentence like this: “Back in 2019, the budget for California’s planned accounting technology improvement program went past $1 billion—which…
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