A Fracking Boondoggle

A Fracking Boondoggle

A few years ago, Tammy Manning and her family moved to Franklin Forks, Pennsylvania, 10 miles from the New York state border. Unbeknownst to her, energy companies had started ramping up natural gas drilling operations near her home. When WPX Energy opened up two...
Highway Funding Runs out of Gas

Highway Funding Runs out of Gas

Lawmakers writing the transportation spending bill have a problem. Actually they have 89 billion problems, because that’s how many dollars they are short between what they want to spend over the next six years and the revenue bean counters expect. Considering...
Koch Brothers Rev Up High-Octane Hypocrisy

Koch Brothers Rev Up High-Octane Hypocrisy

Hypothetical conundrums can provide valuable learning experiences for students of corporate management and ethics. Consider this one: Suppose you’re a corporate chieftain who’s a free-enterprise fundamentalist, despising government regulation, taxation,...