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Practical Solutions to America's Problems
Let’s Establish a Functional Congress
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock Let me point out at the outset that this paper focuses solely on electoral methods for the...
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Dec 2, 20224 min read
America Does Need More Nuclear Energy!
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock Electricity in the U.S. - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) What is to be learned...
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Nov 8, 20222 min read
Electoral Reforms are Achievable
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock Reference: LA Times of 9-23-22 The LA Times reported in an upbeat manner on the efforts of the...
Tom Mast
Nov 5, 20222 min read
Carbon Pricing: The Must-Have Weapon in the Climate Change War
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock Reference: The Invading Sea, 10-5-22, Bob Inglis and Kelsey Grant, Despite Critic’s...
Tom Mast
Nov 3, 20223 min read
Let’s Establish a Functional Congress
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock Let me point out at the outset that this paper focuses solely on electoral methods for the...
Tom Mast
Oct 31, 20224 min read
Tale of Two Parties III
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock #congress #politics What has been happening in Congress the past decade? Regular order has...
Tom Mast
Oct 18, 20221 min read
Tale of Two Parties II
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock #congress #politics Political parties have existed in America almost since its inception. ...
Tom Mast
Oct 13, 20222 min read
Tale of Two Parties I
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock #congress #politics Drutman writes in Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop about the views of...
Tom Mast
Oct 8, 20221 min read
Congressional Elections: Do They Work Well?
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock We are scheduled to have another election in early November to elect members of the U.S....
Tom Mast
Oct 6, 20223 min read
Pivotal Changes Imperative for Congress
PROBLEM Congress has become dysfunctional due to the warring of its two parties resulting in great damage to its ability to solve...
Tom Mast
Sep 27, 20225 min read
Ranked Choice Voting (RCV)
Tom Mast – founder, Solve American Gridlock Ranked Choice Voting – Defined Ranked Choice Voting (RCV), also known as instant runoff...
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Sep 22, 20223 min read
Root Causes of the Student Loan Debt Crisis
Tom Mast, Solve American Gridlock Rachel Larimore wrote in The Dispatch Weekly on August 27 her article Very Expensive Week. It focused...
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Sep 20, 20222 min read
Multimember Districts
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock If I were you, I wouldn’t bother to read this article if you love the following results that...
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Sep 15, 20222 min read
Let’s Pretend
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock Let’s pretend, please, something that won’t work your grey cells too hard. Pretend that for...
Tom Mast
Sep 13, 20222 min read
Block Voting
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock Congress has sunk into near-100% voting by party. Why? What are the root causes of members...
Tom Mast
Sep 1, 20221 min read
See Saw Congress (Unsteady, careen, lurch)
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock PROBLEM Over the past roughly 10-25 years, our U.S. Congress has evolved into a bipolar entity,...
Tom Mast
Aug 23, 20223 min read
Top Issues Facing the USA
Tom Mast, founder of Solve American Gridlock The members of the class of 1967 graduating class of the Harvard Business School recently...
Tom Mast
Aug 18, 20221 min read
“Takes Two to Make a Fight”
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock One day long ago when we were little children, my sister and I had a disagreement in the...
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Aug 2, 20222 min read
Animosity and Discord In Congress
It is only to be expected that competition will exist among people who are intelligent and ambitious. But, when relationships...
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Jun 30, 20222 min read
Confidence in Congress
Tom Mast, founder Solve American Gridlock #congress #gerrymandering I don’t suppose the data above are very surprising to most of you,...
Tom Mast
Jun 25, 20221 min read
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