The Hartford Courant, founded in 1764 and publishing ever since, just announced draconian cutbacks. They will layoff 100 workers, leaving just 135, about half the number they had at the start of 2008. One wonders if the Courant can survive at all or if it will just slowly fade away, reprinting news wire stories [...]
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Photo: HotRot industrial composting system One grocery chain’s pilot program kept more than 650 tons of food waste out of the landfills in just four months. Most grocery store waste comes from produce, which is easily compostable. Hey, if you dump it in a landfill, it’ll eventually turn into soil but this way the [...] Westgate manager arrested, charged with fraud. They claimed $600 to $900 million in assets but only had $100 million. Their supposed auditing firm was a virtual office and they could route calls to it to anywhere. How convenient. How big is the Westridge scam? Hundreds of millions appear to have vanished. Then of course there’s [...] DJ, who posts here, is in cheese-making class this week and has learned that most US cheeses are made with GMO rennet. It’s pretty sad when even the cheese we buy at the store has GMOs in it– and we have no idea. It’s one more argument for buying from a cheese maker you [...] Just another several hundred million in scams, Ponzi schemes and fraud. This is getting to be routine news, isn’t it? Presumed Republican front-runner for 2012, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, crashed and burned spectacularly last night giving the Republican response to Obama’s speech. The criticism has been scathing. One Republican pundit said Jindal was nihilistic, Krugman said it was like watching Beavis and Butthead. I’ve not seen a single person who praised Jindal. Good, IMO [...] The Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota is a converted Kmart. Photo jimmywayne22 on Flickr Municipalities have been taking empty big box stores and converting them into public spaces, go kart tracks, museums, and office space. Most such conversions so far have been when a big box store abandoned one store to build an [...] Doug Henwood Apparently the SEC has known that something was fishy with Stanford for years. The same with Madoff before him. Yet they did nothing. Was this corruption? Bribery? Self-censorship? Complacency? Probably all of them. But this is a society badly in need of a renovation. In bad moments, I fear we’re too far gone. [...] Futurejacked The elites who have risen to the top of corporate food chains across America continue to show their utter cluelessness. Here we have an example of a chance for a major conglomo to bank the equivalent of millions in free positive advertising, of goodwill and possibly an incremental increase in respect from their [...] |  | ||||
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