August 15, 2008 THIS AND THAT – NATIONAL PARKS AND TIMBER HARVESTING AND …LAND PRESERVATION – AND EXPLOITATION OF AMERICA’S NATURAL RESOURCES – THE CONTROVERSIES CONTINUE 100 YEARS AFTER “TR”
The Washington Post reports that “secret negotiations” that were going on between the US Forest Service and a publicly-traded company – Plum Creek Timber Company (NYSE: PCL) – would allow the company to use taxpayer-owned land to...
August 13, 2008 IT’S A COMPLICATED WORLD FOR CORPORATE LEADERS, ISN’T IT?
Each day’s news flow across this commentator’s desk brings a series of news reports that point to the complicated world in which executives and boards make decisions – and which stakeholders and stockholders in some way react to!...
July 20, 2008 NOBODY ASKED ME, BUT – an UPDATE – WHO WAS JIMMY CANNON? WHAT WERE THOSE NEWSPAPERS? What did he say about Accountability? And some thoughts on New York’s greatest days of daily newspaper publishing…
My last column in this space (July 16) began with sports writer and social commentator Jimmy Cannon’s famous [column] phrase, “Nobody Asked Me, But…” So who was this guy, Jimmy Cannon, my younger colleagues asked? And what were...
July 16, 2008 NOBODY ASKED ME – BUT! COMMENTARY ON SCARY HEADLINES THAT POINT TO LACK OF BIG LEAGUE LEADERSHIP IN MANY OF AMERICA’S POWER CENTERS…
NOBODY ASKED ME, BUT! Does anyone recall the great sports writer and social commentator, Jimmy Cannon? What a writer – when I was a teenager I devoured his newspaper columns here in New York, and they were in part an...
July 15, 2008 COMMENTARY ON BANK FAILURE: THERE WENT INDYMAC – FDIC STEPS IN – WHERE ARE WE GOING WITH FANNIE AND FREDDIE – AND WHO KNOWS WHO ELSE WILL BE IN THE RESCUE LINE?
Summer 1929 – the warning signs were there and the smart money (think of investor Joseph Kennedy, father of the brothers John, Bobby and Teddy and the legendary Bernard Baruch, advisor to presidents) were moving to cash and off...
July 03, 2008 COMMENTARY ON DICK GRASSO’S PAY PACKAGE – AND EVERYONE MOVING ON … THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE -- THE HOUSE THAT DICK BUILT -- ALREADY HAS MOVED ON!
The stuff of Legends: The High Drama in the Canyons of Lower Manhattan seems to be coming to an end – the New York State Appellate Court ruled 3-to-1 this week that Richard Grasso, former high-wattage Chairman and CEO of the New...
June 15, 2008 WHO IS TO BLAME FOR THE SUBPRIME DEBACLE? THEM …YOU … ME… ALL OF US. AND WE WILL ALL PAY THE PRICE IN THE MONTHS AHEAD.
Banking is a very complex business, highly regulated, very interconnected – and absolutely vital to the well-being of our nation, and every one of us. So when banking gets in trouble – look out! And much of the commercial...
June 01, 2008 BECAUSE POLITICS MATTERS – LET’S LOOK AT THE 2008 ELECTIONS A CONVERSATION WITH CNN’S DAVID GERGEN…
This on-line journal is titled “Accountability Matters,” and we note (above) that “accountability really does matter” to all of us. So, too “Politics Matters,” says CNN senior commentator and well-known author David Gergen. We...
April 18, 2008 Commentary On Corporate Accountability And Responsibility – On Food Safety, That Nasty Meat Recall, Remedial Steps By Responsible Companies…And A Newly Identified Threat In Our Supermarkets…
Amidst the noise and news a few weeks back when the largest meat recall in the history of the United States was taking place, the good news was overlooked, and we want to hold it up here today to ensure more folks see Corporate...
April 04, 2008 Commentary on the 40th Anniversary of the Tragic Slaying of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – What Have We Learned? What Would He Be Thinking? The Year 1968 in perspective…
Many of the dramatic events of the year 1968 are still clear in my mind this morning. Living in that time, being a young journalist and then corporate manager active in many of the events that took place, and then looking back...