Month February 2009

Hartford Courant circling the drain

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…

So hard to keep track

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…

GMOs in your cheese? Probably!

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…