It was a cold winter day in New York when passengers boarded US Airways Flight 1549 bound for Charlotte, North Carolina. Just after takeoff from LaGuardia and flying to the northwest, on a route skirting Manhattan Island, the...[more]

As the calendar pages turn quickly toward January 20, 2009, when the reign of the new Obama Administration will begin, many eyes are focused on what happens now at the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC). By federal...[more]

If it’s too good to be true…maybe it isn’t. Part of the wholesale abandonment of risk management in the current financial environment is ignoring of risk, either clearly evident risk or what should be have a healthy sense of...[more]

What the 110th US Congress could not or would not do in its last days, the good old Bush White House, in its own dwindling away and winding-down days, got done. Two of America’s remaining Big 3 auto companies will get almost $14...[more]

Great ball stadiums bring great hopes to the civic interests, and the home teams playing are good, great hope for the loyal fans. Baseball is the great American pastime. (So is football, basketball, hockey, etc. – privately...[more]

As CNN anchor Lou Dobbs seems to ask (night after night) – “What in the world is going on with our government?” Many more people of ordinary means as well as those in high places of power are now asking the same question. As we...[more]

For generations of American workers and business managers, the Heartland states – western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and others – have been the epicenter of American manufacturing know-how. This was the...[more]

Part II – As we wrote yesterday, in our next of the woods, here in suburban Long Island, New York, two recent tragic incidents have shocked newspaper readers and TV watchers, whether they live in these parts, elsewhere in the...[more]

In our neck of the woods, here in suburban Long Island, New York, two recent tragic incidents have shocked newspaper readers and TV watchers, whether they live in these parts, elsewhere in the country…or in some distant place on...[more]

The Hon. Everett McKinley Dirksen was a gravely voiced, avuncular US Senator from Illinois (he served 1951-1969) who helped to pass the Open Housing Act of 1968, a powerful piece of the Civil Rights legislation. We long remember...[more]