January 5

A $39k golf cart? Even if the government (tax payers) are picking up a third of the cost this car is so far a pipe dream. Tesla filed for bankruptcy (but I HAVE driven one of their sports cars and it is SWEET!) I have several kids, dogs and outdoors equipment. I drive an SUV because it fits my lifestyle. We go into the mountains a lot. I am tired of the social engineering to modify our behavior ...

Sweetwater superintendent Ed Brand triggered controversy for a plan to extract up-front fees from district vendors. Last week, Sweetwater’s interim superintendent Ed Brand suspended the Funds for Education Committee, saying, “I can stop the grief right here.”

As has become a custom, we asked a handful of our readers and regular correspondents to answer two questions about the year looming before us: First, what do you see coming in the next 12 months; and second, if, as pseudoscientific interpretations of the Mayan calendar suggest, the world will come to an end in 2012, how do you imagine that will happen?

Will Tesla Motors prove profitable in the new year?