Spencer Hunt of the Columbus Dispatch has a story on the overwhelming demand for state tax credits to homeowners and businesses that install solar panels on their homes and buildings. The two takeaways from the reader would get from this story is that demand to install solar panels is incredibly high and the cost of solar technology is coming down. The real takeaways of the story should be that if you subsidize something enough, people will buy it, and that the cost of generating electricity from solar panels is still prohibitively high to compete in the … Continue Reading

When President Barack Obama stopped in Columbus, Ohio to raise campaign cash on August 18th, Dispath reporters Mark Niquette and Joe Hallett reported:

Later, at a Downtown luncheon fundraiser for Gov. Ted Strickland and the Ohio Democratic Party, Obama said the recession already had swept away 8million jobs before “we had any opportunity to put in our economic policies.” Those policies - the $787billion stimulus package, health-care overhaul, domestic auto industry bailout and tighter regulations on Wall Street - are helping to rebuild the economy, Obama said.

If Niquette and Hallett are just repeating what the President said, then they should … Continue Reading