| Aug 29, 2011 | Economy / BusinessIn today’s fast-moving world of consumer styles, when you’re out, you’re out. Not just out-of-style, but so far out that you no longer interest the big marketers. Thus it is that advertising authorities have deemed the middle class itself (roughly 60...
| | Economy / BusinessBashing unions Makes me quake; We’ve all got A lot at stake. Here in investor-laden Connecticut, labor scored a rare coup this year. We became the first state to require most service-sector employers to provide paid sick leave. Sure, all governments and most big...
| Jun 20, 2011 | Food / FarmingMcDonald’s should heed a call from some of the nation’s leading health professionals and stop marketing junk food to kids. It certainly has good reason to do so. One in three children is at risk for developing type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives...
| Jan 3, 2011 | Food / FarmingThe television series Mad Men, set in the early 1960s, shocks young parents today with scenes of children riding in station wagons without seat belts and putting dry cleaning bags over their heads for fun. Thank goodness we know so much more about keeping our kids...
| Oct 25, 2010 | Food / FarmingThe big brand-name corporations love advertising. They love it so much that they spend some $170 billion a year in our country to put all sorts of slicken and hokum on their products, and on their own public image. But there is one kind of advertising that these...
