Category News

Tribune Co. to file bankruptcy

Among other newspapers, the Trib owns the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. Sam Zell, aging real estate developer, bought the Trib boasting about how he would pump up the subscriber base, yet by his utter cluelessness and short-sighted greed,…

Day of the dead

Report from The Guardian on the out of control narco violence in Mexico. Over the past two years almost 7,000 people have been slaughtered in a staggeringly brutal turf war between Mexico’s police and the country’s ruthless drug cartels. As…

Resilient Community: Economics and Spirituality

(Eschlabach photo.) “How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the…