Blue Ribbon Team
Stories of place, purpose, and craft — architecture, travel, food, art, civic life, infrastructure, and overlooked details from Johnstown, Pennsylvania and beyond.
- What Is Government For, If Not People?
- Letter on Noblesse Oblige
- Johnstown’s Comprehensive Plan Is the Easy Part
- THE STATE OF WATER
- Green Beacon Gallery Benefit Show.
- Knock it off the Table
- Turning a corner with style.
- trumping
- Toll Roads for Ideas?
- Rivers of the World Aquarium and Conemaugh Conservatory
- The Chapin Arch: A Love Letter in Iron Money
- United We Bargain, Divided We Beg
- The spell checker that listens.
- On the Duty We Forgot We Were Owed
- Let Us Learn from Petrarch
- He’s 20. So Was I.
- The Data Center Dividend
- I hate forums, but this needs one.
- A Story about Racism
- Prove the Fix- RRP
- RRP Early Feedback Q&A
- Lake Eries Green Slick
- Your Neighborhood Pond is GROSS!
- On Law and Power
- 7apr26 D13Raven
- Responsibility Is the Root of Personhood
- The Thermal Variability Hypothesis
- Garden of the Gods
- The Border Canals
- When the Supply Chain Breaks, the Soil Remembers
- A Roof That Lies About Its Size
- On the ONE Who Votes for You
- The River Is the Supply Chain
- THE ONLY THING STANDING BETWEEN YOU AND THEIR APPETITE
- Miss Ordinary’s Perspective
- The Things That Don’t Move
- Intellectual Property as Market Distortion:
- Clinch Mountain Veterans Overlook
- To the MOON!
- Free AI
- On the Temptation of Purity
- The Refugium:
- A Lesson from the Battle of Minneapolis
- Vision
- Why the Future Is Built in Public
- Rose Island: Man Made / Nature Made
- The Johnstown Museum of Fortean Studies
- Mourning Joe Hill
- Money Is Not Speech. It Is the First Act.
- Cambria County Courthouse
- Distributed Intelligence Infrastructure
- On Talking Without Hearing
- Nature Made: Three States, One Ridge
- The Infinite Possibilities of a Scarf
- The Roxbury Bandshell
- Crippled by Opportunity
- Aerial Material Logistics
- Check Out the Courthouse
- A philosophy to live with.
- Derailments and Technology
- We Are Already Inside the Singularity
- Bryce Canyon, Utah
- An Injury to One, Is An Injury to ALL
- River Refugium Project – Global Edition
- Civil debate?
- Man Made: A Steel Truss Bridge in Johnstown
- Thought Experiment- Gravity is Electrical.
- Four square Italianate
- Fish Farming Solutions
- HOT TEA from Heather Dean
- Precision Thermal Cycling (PTC)
- The Twelve Core Rights of Human Persons
- Cataract Falls, Indiana
- The Death Penalty to Science and Culture
- Defending Title V
- A Word on War
- Democratic Drift
- Miss Ordinary: The Makeup Mirror
- The Red House on the Corner
- Domesticating Groundnut w/ Aquaponics
- Red Steel Over Green Water
- The Cult of Personality as a Known Failure Mode
- Against Is Not a Contribution
- Policing Free People
- Franklin Street United Methodist Church in Johnstown, PA
- Say You Want a REVOLUTION!
- Signal and Static:
- The Ball Mansion on Ninth Street Hill
- Organizing the Wright Way
- Supply Lines and the Art of War:
- Art Shouldn’t Live in Boxes
- Johnstown, Pennsylania
- Why “Open” Is Not Anti-Capitalist
- On the Trouble With Naming What Should Not Be Limited
- Hearing the Silent Hunt of Canids
- B.L.A.M.E.
- My Tesla Letter to Mr. Westinghouse
- Orchestrated Friction
- the Edge of Humanity
- All Work Is Work
