Editor's Note

by 
Mary Sweeten, Editor, Weavers Way Shuttle

I really did try to come up with something for this Editor’s Note.

But Kirsten has the New Year’s resolution column and the thing I was planning to write about — Instacart is coming to the Co-op, look out! — got pushed back. And I’m not touching the inauguration with a 10-foot pole.

So this month is kind of a meandering omnibus of things I think are interesting. Sorry.

The Shuttle is online. Really. Visit www.weaversway.coop/shuttle. Click on the very cool image of this month’s edition. We now have nine — nine! — issues posted. The beauty part is if you see something you like (or don’t like), you can forward the link to someone else. Plus spiders can crawl the site, harvesting data, and if that creeps you out, well, it does boost Weavers Way’s profile on the Web. (Which might also creep you out.)

Jerry Brown. Worrying about climate-change deniers at the levers of the U.S. government isn’t exactly the inauguration, so I’m passing along what California’s governor told the American Geophysical Union at its December meeting in San Francisco: If Trump shuts down satellite collection of climate data, “California will launch its own damn satellites.” He got a standing O. See Brown’s speech here:
www.facebook.com/AmericanGeophysicalUnion/videos/10153868688001601

The soda tax. Common Pleas Judge Glazer did throw out the American Beverage Association’s lawsuit to keep Philadelphia’s Sweetened (no relation) Beverage Tax from going into effect on Jan. 1. The Philadelphians Against Grocery Tax Coalition was disappointed. “Philadelphia families will be shocked in January when prices jump on more than one thousand common beverages, including teas, soft drinks, juice drinks and no-calorie and low-calorie options,” their release said.

Sorry, soda-tax deniers. After the last few months, an increase in the price of a two-liter Orange Fanta no longer has the ability to shock me.