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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection. His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of articles for Common Ground's national publication, GroundSwell, and has advocated for the Georgist Land Value Tax to public and political audiences. A complete list of his publications can be found here:
Scott has a dozen progressive petitions on Change.org which may be found here:
Scott was an I.T. Manager for a major New York university for over two decades where he earned a Certificate for Frontline Leadership.
He had a video game published in Compute! Magazine: Click Here Scott is a graduate and adjunct faculty of the Henry George School of Social Science in New York City.
Scott is a modern-day Renaissance Man with interests in economics, science and all future-forward topics.
Scott grew up in New York City and Pennsylvania. He graduated with honors and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University and was a member of the Psychology honor society PSI CHI. Today he is an avid bicyclist and ride co-leader in a prominent bike advocacy organization.
OpEd News Member for 807 week(s) and 6 day(s) 357 Articles, 1464 Quick Links, 3884 Comments, 41 Diaries, 3 Petitions, 33 Series, 7 Polls
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Monday, October 19, 2009A Balanced View of Global Warming There's been a shift in Global Warming from denial being the mainstream view, to acceptance being mainstream, and denialists finding themselves suddenly as the minority gadflies looking in. Both extremes are probably wrong. 
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Thursday, June 30, 2011Economic Reform Newsletter: Is the Debt Ceiling Constitutional? Is the United States even Allowed to Default? As the debt ceiling holds the country hostage to the draconian and ultimately economically self-defeating demands of the Tea Party crowd to cut spending at all costs (including the country itself), a number of scholars are debating whether the United States is even permitted to default on its obligations. Section 4 of the 14th Amendment reads: The validity of the public debt... Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 299773 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 115197 views), Politics (56 Articles, 187425 views) (View All Series) 
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Friday, March 19, 2010Have Conditions in the Laboring Class improved from Henry George's Time to our Own? Labor conditions were indeed often appalling in the nineteenth century, but are they any better now? Let's start with a specific example and broaden our findings from there. A comparison of Labor's life from a hundred years ago to today. Have things improved...or been offshored? Series: Economic Reform (99 Articles, 299773 views), Georgism (36 Articles, 115197 views) 
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Friday, December 11, 2009The Top 10 Reasons for Energy Independence have Little to do With Global Warming Don't waste your time trying to convince Climate Change Deniers of the error of their thinking. Instead, use these reasons to convince them that we need to get off foreign oil and create jobs in America. 
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Monday, July 4, 2022The Abortion of the United States The state-by-state loss of birth choice effects much more than the individual right of when or if for a woman to have a child. The situation is fluid, brand new - though anyone who was paying attention to the supreme court arguments and the leaked Samuel Alito opinion last Spring should have seen this coming. The effects on the country will go far beyond the Right to Choose. 
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Tuesday, August 4, 2020Time to reopen, at least in the worst hit city, New York City It's time to reopen in NYC. The economic consequences outweigh the potential harm of continuing the lock-down in corona virus infection rates. Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30680 views) 
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Monday, September 21, 2009Bike Ride to Close the Greenway Gap in NYC Sunday 11/8 at 11:00am! The Vanderbilt YMCA's America On The Move initiative and Transportation Alternatives' East Side Committee would like to invite you to a Close the Gaps in the East Side Greenway bicycle ride. The ride will take place on Sunday, September 27, 2009. 
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019HILL TV EXCLUSIVE, Full Interview: Bernie Sanders sits down with Krystal Ball HILL TV EXCLUSIVE, Full Interview: Bernie Sanders sits down with Krystal Ball. About Rising: Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like never before. One of the few intelligent in-depth interviews of a leading presidential candidate. Worth the half hour view. 
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Saturday, July 18, 2020Bombshell Report: Herd Immunity Reached at 20% (Video) Kim Iversen cites 2 studies that show only 10-20% infection rates confer herd immunity, not 60-70% as previously believed. This means NY, UK & Sweden are already past this & other states and countries soon will be. NY can open up now, and other states soon & other measures might not be necessary or effective. It is then just a coincidence that strict measures were enacted at the same time as Covid-19 peaked. Series: Covid (16 Articles, 30680 views)
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009Community Board Meeting over Drilling the Marcellus Shale for NG To drill or not to drill, that is the question for the Marcellus Shale region that contains more natural gas than anywhere else in the country. NY City's drinking water also comes from the same region - Community Board's are concerned. My eyewitness account. 
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Friday, October 12, 2012A Brief History of American Paper Money, with emphasis on Georgist Perspectives Government can, does, and has, created money without debt. It does this currently every time it produces physical coins, and has done so since 1792, under the original coinage act. The same option exists for paper money and its electronic equivalent. 
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Saturday, March 6, 2010We CAN Have it all, Part II We have the resources - both natural and human - to rebuild America, to achieve great, world-leading Green technology. There IS enough to go around. Scarcity only exists because some have far more than they need, while others have far less. Both extreme poverty and extreme wealth are unnatural and manmade conditions of a faulty economic model. 
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Monday, July 2, 2012Educating the Next Generation For those who don't understand Georgism or Land Value Taxation, the following conversation may prove illuminating. For everyone else convinced there are no solutions to our economic ills, it will prove enlightening. 
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Thursday, February 27, 2020Pre-Super Tuesday Predictions The jockeying for poll position in the Democratic presidential field has only just begun. The next week will be very telling. 
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Friday, January 22, 2021Strip the Senate: Making V.P. Kamala Harris the Senate Majority Leader Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConell (R) is refusing to give up his title. Biden and Harris have to act aggressively to prevent this sabotage. They can not do what they usually do. Republicans fight to the death to retain power. Democrats just die. And out of power they rightfully should claim. 
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Friday, October 19, 2018Tales from future pasts: Musings on Time Travel An article on the possibility of Time Travel in the popular Next Big Future Science and Technology blog entitled "Quantum mechanics time travel indicates no grandfather paradox" got me to thinking about my interpretation of the Grandfather Paradox, and Time Travel in general. 
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Sunday, February 28, 2010Why Bankers Love War War is profitable for Bankers. It's the best investment they can make. 
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016The Hillary Clinton crime that won't go away with the nomination Hillary Clinton had a personal server set up in her house instead of using the secured government-run server. Whatever you think of Clinton, this was a breach of a very serious law and it could throw not just the election, but the entire country into turmoil. 
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Monday, January 4, 2010I Declare Myself a No-Fly Zone I've had it. I'm done flying until both the Government and the Airlines regain their sanity.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009Obama's Health Plan summarized - should you support it? Points of the President's plan are laid out here, in his post-speech request to support it. Will you support this plan? Page 8 of 20 First Last Back Next 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 View All |
