Well, the first thing I did was look up the meaning of “parsimonious” to have some idea of what they were talking about. The definition “I think they are using” is this: “What does it mean that science is parsimonious?

If you think you can avoid politics as an emergency manager…guess again.

Politics, the Presidential Election and upcoming debate, and not to mention the start of the college and National Football seasons dominate what I’m seeing and reading and…yet, the weather has not gone away totally.

While writing this blog post I was thinking about the tax implications of those homes lost to the waves. The land, sand, shore remains, so I expect they still have to pay taxes for the property even if they don’t have a home on the site---hmm?

There has been a very active hurricane season already. Right now we are in a bit of a grace period, but the forecast for September is increasingly threatening.  Check out the forecast below. It is sobering indeed.

It is an astonishing fact that according to the NY Times, Half Their Land Burned in a Decade: The California Counties Constantly on Fire