Editor, howard. This week, as a cover story you are looking at Hurricane Harvey. You knew the storm is coming, but how did you plan for this coverage . Howard weaver going to wait and see with the storm is like. When we were planning over the weekend, the storm had not yet quite hit. We slowly got the news in a slowly built. By sunday it was clear it was a huge disaster. Who is back from vacation is our great synthesizer, our resident economist. He can take almost any story and look at it from an economic angle and a very human angle. Peter was perfect for this. There was also a story that was going on. Chris lindell had been doing work with fema and with reporting on National Building codes and have a place like houston and taxes in general, they are allergic to building codes. The combination of those two, peter talking about the general, largescale big picture of the economy in houston, and looking how things are put together, their cando attitude and how this patchwork of Flood Con
Week, you guys, as a cover story, you are taking a look at Hurricane Harvey. Knew thiseekly, you storm was coming, but how, as a weekly did you plan for this coverage . Howard we were going to wait and see with the storm is like. When we were planning over the weekend, the storm had not yet quite hit. By sunday it was clear it was a huge disaster. Peter coy who is back from vacation is our great synthesizer, our resident economist. And he can take almost any story and look at it from an economic angle, but also from a very human angle. So peter was perfect for this. There was also a story that was going on. Chris lindell had been doing work with fema, and reporting on building codes, and how a place like houston, and taxes in general they are allergic to , building codes. The combination of those two, peter talking about the general, largescale big picture of the economy in houston, and looking how things are put together, their cando attitude and how this patchwork of Flood Control ca
Are looking at Hurricane Harvey. How as a weekly did we plan for this coverage . We were going to wait to see what the storm was like because when we were planning over the weekend, the storm had not hit. By sunday it was clear that it was a huge disaster. Peter was back from vacation, he is an economist and he can take almost any story and look at the economic angle but also a human angle. He was perfect for this. There is another story. Chris has been doing work with fema and reporting on National Building codes and how a place like houston and texas in general are allergic to building codes. The combination of those two, the economy in houston and how things are put together, the cando attitude, but, lets do anything we want to do, and how this patchwork of Flood Control came together, and then there is this attitude about building codes. We dont like building codes. Carol ive got a lot of family in texas and i love them dearly, but they do things their own way. [laughter] oliver i
Are looking at Hurricane Harvey. How as a weekly did we plan for this coverage . We were going to wait to see what the storm was like because when we were planning over the weekend, the storm had not hit. By sunday it was clear that it was a huge disaster. Peter was back from vacation, he is an economist and he can take almost any story and look at the economic angle but also a human angle. He was perfect for this. There is another story. Chris has been doing work with fema and reporting on National Building codes and how a place like houston and texas in general are allergic to building codes. The combination of those two, the economy in houston and how things are put together, the cando attitude, but, lets do anything we want to do, and how this patchwork of Flood Control came together, and then there is this attitude about building codes. We dont like building codes. Carol ive got a lot of family in texas and i love them dearly, but they do things their own way. [laughter] oliver i
The author is scott wooley. Mr. Wooley, looking back a hundred years ago, what was considered high tech then . Guest the wireless age has been around for about a decade and a half but there was only one app which was texting. There was before am radio as we know it now there was the wireless telegraph. By 1960 it had been around but struggled to make itself proven as a Real Wireless technology with the exception of the sinking of the titanic in 1912 so just over a hundred years ago. That is what brought Wireless Technology to the public conscious and made people consciousness and realize this is an important technology. Host what did the sinking of the titanic have to do with the Technology Development . Guest there were a hundred Wireless Technologies companies that spread up but the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company was the dominant wireless company. Even it not been successful. It tried to make a business of sending messages across the atlantic never succeeded and got long sending