Posts from December 2016

Idlers Will Be Charged

LightGrams December 22, 2016 Volume 20, Number 41 The age of electric cars is now here.  What once seemed a fantasy has become reality, and that reality is growing rapidly.  And we’re not talking about hybrid cars, in which sometimes the car runs on electricity and sometimes on gasoline.  No, these cars are fully electric…

Hurting The Ones We Love

LightGrams December 15, 2016 Volume 20, Number 40 If you owe money to John Bubar of Parsonfield, Maine, you might want to repay it as quickly as possible.  His son learned that lesson the hard way earlier this week.  But John learned an even more painful lesson. John’s son lives in a mobile home that…

All Are Welcome!

LightGrams December 8, 2016 Volume 20, Number 39 Wanda Dench of Mesa, Arizona was making her plans for the family Thanksgiving meal.  She texted her invitations to family members, including her grandson.  What Wanda didn’t know was that the grandson had changed his phone number.  Her text went to a complete stranger, Jamal Hinton. Once…

When Love Distracts

LightGrams December 1, 2016 Volume 20, Number 38 A meeting is planned for later this month in Washington, D.C. to discuss removal of highway signs in New York.  At issue are more than 500 signs, scattered along the Interstate highways in that state.  The theme that appears on each of those signs is “I Love…