A year ago I wrote a short post on an example of economic ignorance on the part of town officials here in St. Johnsbury. Such examples are hardly rare, and today’s Caledonian Record has another one.
In June the town secured funding to install an electric vehicle charging station. A state grant will cover 75% of the $15,000 price tag with Green Mountain Power covering the rest. The chairman of the St. Johnsbury select board is quoted as saying:
I’m not sure we need one but if it can
Yesterday in the local paper there was a short article about the school district buying 60 iPads to distribute to some of the students.
Leaving aside such issues as how 60 iPads can be divided among several hundred students or whether iPads, in and of themselves, can actually aid students in actually learning (which I doubt), my main take away from the article is the economic ignorance on display.
As reported in the July 19, 2013 Caledonian Record:
School officials initially planned to purchase the