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George Gombossy The Hartford Courant, a once-fine newspaper, recently fired 40 year employee and consumer watchdog George Gombossy because he was about to print an article critical of an advertiser. While the NYT article maintains neutrality, it’s devastating to the Courant especially since the story has now gone national. Gombossy was fired because of [...] The FDIC has issued deadlines for bidders on the assets of two large banks, Guaranty and Corus. The deadline for Guaranty is today, and the bank has said it can no longer continue as a going concern and that stockholders can expect to receive nothing. The deadline for Corus is Sept. 3. Most of [...] Because of course, any of their journalists who exposes problems at one of their biggest advertisers needs to be fired. The Courant has been circling the drain for a few years now while Hartford has been spiraling down for decades. (I grew up near Hartford and we lived near there in 2006.) The Courant started [...] Because guess what? Deals that look “perfectly legal” to the Dallas city attorney can look like criminal offenses to the feds, and if you get caught between those rocks you could wind up downtown in the dock, trying to ward off a long stretch in the pen like the defendants in the current case. I [...] Acclaimed drummer and vocalist for The Band Levon Helm has a new album out, Electric Dirt. One cut, “Growing Trade,” is about a struggling farmer who is barely getting by and might lose the farm. He decides to do a different kind of growing. I got to do what I can to survive I [...] WaPo It should not be a crime to annoy the cops, whose raid on Ms. Strom’s house looks more like a fit of pique than an act of law enforcement. Some of her postings may have consisted of obnoxious speech, but they were nonetheless speech and constitutionally protected. She can’t make bail, and may [...] I recently spoke with a prosperous entrepreneur with major family and business connections in Mexico, and asked him his take on Mexico now, what with Los Zetas and everything. Don’t go, he said, it’s too dangerous. Hotels in Mexico City are hiring mercenaries as guards, travelers don’t go outside, and insurance is impossible to [...] Semakau Landfill First, Singapore burns as much of their trash as possible in waste-to-energy incinerators. Then they use leftover waste ash to create landfill islands like the Semakau Landfill, which may be turned in an eco-park. Why? The increasing use of cell phone as primary phone, coupled with people not answering their landline phone, not being home, etc. In fact, you don’t have a home phone; your number can ring anywhere in the world; you’re not waiting for your phone to ring; nobody calls you on the phone anyway they text [...] |  | ||||
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