[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes the refusal of Bombardier to explain to the TTC, even in the context of an impending lawsuit, why streetcar production is so delayed.


• At the Broadside Blog, Caitlin Kelly recommends the movie Spotlight for its insights into the importance of journalism.


• Crooked Timber considers protests at Princeton about racial representation.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting possibilities for direct imaging of the Alpha Centauri system.


• The Dragon's Tales notes plans to close down the last coal-powered power plant in Britain.


• Far Outliers looks at Russian and German encounters with Papuans in the late 19th century.


• Language Hat starts a discussion on marginalized languages.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the defense of the mayor of Roanoke that his defense of the Japanese-American internment was not racist.


• Marginal Revolution notes the importance of the Iran-Iraq War in the Middle East's downward spiral.


• pollotenchegg notes language use in Ukraine.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes how the Kirchner governments in Argentina subsidized energy companies.


• Torontoist notes a Bloordale artist's efforts to start a fact box in her neighbourhood.


• Towleroad notes the belated recognition of a trans widow's marriage.


• Window on Eurasia notes the complications of the cut-off of electricity supply from Ukraine to Crimea.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alexander Harrowell is critical of certain plans for devolution that risk creating party fiefdoms.