Publications by Eric Niewoehner
Collection of articles on current issues, reflections on the COVID-19 pandemic, professional development, travel and history
Food deserts in our big cities? In a previous article we looked at the Law of Supply: That the provision of a good or service is a function of the ability and willingness of a producer to deliver a product. Most of us are familiar with ability. We have seen countless businesses fade into history…
A collection of photographs of Missouri trees and shrubs surrounding Rachel’s prairie, a one acre patch of ground with a pond. Even though the focus of this journal is on a prairie, I have to concede that the life I witness on the prairie is framed by the trees and shrubs that surround it. While…
It is a law of economics that supply is the ability and will to provide a good or service to the marketplace. What we are seeing recently is the loss of will as businesses are abandoning many of our large cities. It is a law of economics that supply is the ability and will to…
Who are the probationary workers that were fired? Why? And why are they being hired back? I have been laid-off only once in my professional career. It was no surprise. I was a grain trader for a large Midwest cooperative and they had decided to close down the grain division. So I saw this was…
What is a retired federal employee’s take on the request from DOGE to submit five bullet points? The Department on Government Efficiency (DOGE) recently stirred up considerable controversy when it used the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to send e-mails to all government employees demanding that they list five things they accomplished during the week….