"Test everything; hold fast to what is good."
That's the headline for the featured article on the featured house in this week's Sunday real estate section of my newspaper: The location is ideal. The home sits on a lovely sloping corner lot, boasting lush landscaping and truly stunning views of the verdant landscape and the idyllic pond for which Broad Run and Broad [...]
Here is an interesting and conventionally well-executed business story on corporate sick time policies. This is a "business" story, designed for that section of most newspapers that also includes the daily stock market reports. The "business" section is, essentially, the "capital" section for most papers. Capital is quite important — a vital component of "business." [...]
Between the holidays and a stack of papers I still haven't finished grading, I've missed some items I need to go back for, such as Tim Rutten and Russell Baker on the distorting effect of affluence on news coverage. Here's Rutten: To the extent any bias is generally operative in the news media today, it [...]
With nobody hitting the jackpot for the multistate Powerball lottery this weekend, the prize rolls over and may be as high as $210 million for Wednesday night's drawing. I'll take this opportunity to revisit my earlier calculations (aided by my actuary brother) regarding whether or not Powerball constitutes a "fair game." The idea of a [...]
Aside from conservatives, liberals and analysts, everyone seems impressed with the Bush administration's new plans for balancing the budget restoring fiscal responsibility slightly ameliorating the tide of red ink: President Bush's goal of cutting in half a projected $500 billion federal deficit within five years is being dismissed as too timid by conservatives, unachievable by [...]
From the front page of today's Life and Leisure section of the paper where I work we learn of the marvels of the global economy. "Tech gifts under $50" the headline proclaims, and the article goes on to describe a cornucopia of ridiculously affordable software, electronics and high-tech wonders all available to us at remarkably [...]
That's the name of Wal-Mart's cheaply made and cheaply sold, imported house brand jeans: "Faded Glory." The uber-retailer also now offers Levis. Well, not Levis exactly, but Levis "Signature" line — a cheaply made and cheaply sold, imported imitation of the classic American-made jeans. Charles Fishman has the details on this and much more in [...]
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