| Apr 4, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyYou may not realize how much small towns and rural areas depend on the mail until someone puts it like this: “Folks who die after midnight on a Friday could be buried before their relatives read about the death in my Monday edition.” That’s what the...
| | Rights / DemocracyPoor Detroit. The bad news never stops. The once-proud miracle of capitalism is the urban equivalent of a homeless family living under a bridge, digging in dumpsters for scraps. Having already gone through its “Crime Capital” phase, it has become the...
| Mar 14, 2011 | Economy / BusinessWisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s autocratic attempt to abrogate the democratic right of public employees to bargain with their governmental bosses is not wearing well with the public. Recent polls show that a mere one-third of Wisconsinites favor his blatantly...
| Feb 28, 2011 | Economy / BusinessWhen the riots in Tunisia began I went out into the streets and shouted, “Today we are all Tunisians.” “Right on,” a middle-aged guy with a Keith Richards face shouted back. When the riots in Egypt started I went out into the streets and...
| Jan 10, 2011 | Economy / BusinessSought a unionTo get some clout;Boss spent thousandsTo keep it out. Back in business school, they taught us that a company’s major costs were land, labor, and capital. There were strategies to minimize each, with labor the most complicated cost to control. That...
