Everyone agrees that workers on public works projects should be paid a fare wage.  And with all due respect to ditch diggers . . . solar and wind farms–or any renewable energy projects for that matter– don’t just need brawn.  They need brains.  Installing solar panels and other analogous jobs requires special training, which is [...]

The best professor I had in business school was the wisest. He once commented that only two things fuel the American economy: immigration and innovation. I was reminded of that last summer when I went to the InterSolar Conference in San Francisco—most of the vendors there were either German or Chinese . . . with [...]