Pennsylvania鈥檚 500 school boards regularly prove that it鈥檚 overly optimistic to take nine people off the street, put them in a room, and expect them to run enterprises that spend more than $33 billion a year in local, state and federal money.It鈥檚 difficult to calculate how much, but a ...
When I worked on Reuters鈥� business desk, we weren鈥檛 allowed to parrot press releases reporting that earnings soared 100% from the year before. Why? Because here鈥檚 the reality behind some such claims: Acme Pebble鈥檚 income last year may have grown from a miserable $100 to only $200. ...
For decades, we鈥檝e been told: recycle!鈥淚f we鈥檙e not using recycled paper, we鈥檙e cutting down more trees!鈥� says Lynn Hoffman, co-president of Eureka Recycling.Recycling paper (or cardboard) does save trees. Recycling aluminum does save energy. But that鈥檚 about it.The ugly truth is ...
America has just exited a biennium of Democratic trifecta 鈥� control by the nation鈥檚 and the world鈥檚 oldest political party of the White House and majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives. It is only the third such biennium in the last 40 years, since 1993-95 and 2009-11, the ...