Across the Czech Republic, the wind was in the air—but not in the ballots. Over this past election weekend, twenty-one Czech municipalities held local referendums on proposed wind turbine projects, and twenty of them returned a clear “no.” The lone exception squeaked through with 50.5 percent of the vote, a margin so thin that nobody could call it a mandate. For a country that has long claimed to care about climate change and clean energy, the results were sobering. Wind power currently makes up less than one percent of Czechia’s electricity mix, far behind many of its European neighbors. Opinion…

1. The Warm Welcome Behind the Cookie Notice Think about the first time you walked into a neighborhood coffee shop. The barista didn’t just stare at you blankly or ask you to fill out a form before saying hello. Instead, they smiled, maybe nodded, and somehow made you feel like the space was a little warmer because you were in it. That’s the feeling a great website wants to give you. It wants you to walk in, look around, find what you need, and leave feeling good about the time you spent there. That’s where the cookie notice comes in—not…