PennsylvaniaĢƵ 500 school boards regularly prove that itĢƵ 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.ItĢƵ difficult to calculate how much, but a ...
When I worked on Reuters’ business desk, we weren’t allowed to parrot press releases reporting that earnings soared 100% from the year before. Why? Because hereĢƵ the reality behind some such claims: Acme PebbleĢƵ income last year may have grown from a miserable $100 to only $200. ...
For decades, we’ve been told: recycle!“If we’re not using recycled paper, we’re cutting down more trees!” says Lynn Hoffman, co-president of Eureka Recycling.Recycling paper (or cardboard) does save trees. Recycling aluminum does save energy. But thatĢƵ about it.The ugly truth is ...
America has just exited a biennium of Democratic trifecta — control by the nationĢƵ and the worldĢƵ 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 ...