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Jan. 25, 2008

Back to... the past

Everybody pulled his weight. Gee our old LaSalle ran great. Those were the days. --from "Those Were The Days," lyric by Charles Stouse and Lee Adams....More
Jan. 17, 2008

He thinks... he acts!

OK, now we can get off Ben Bernanke's back. According to The Wall Street Journal this morning, the Fed chairman has "endorsed a 'quickly' implemented....More
Jan. 15, 2008

A bridge too weak

Almost six months after the horrible collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis, the finger of blame is being pointed at a design flaw--....More
Jan. 10, 2008

Ya think, Ben, ya think?

Sometimes you got to wonder what people, including high-powered eggheads in Washington, are thinking. News item: This afternoon The Wall Sreet....More
Jan. 4, 2008

The happy warriors

Oh to be in the Granite State this morning! For a political junkie like me, last night was what the World Series, the Super Bowl and the college ball....More
Dec. 17, 2007

Busy guy

Jim Hoffa, general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is no doubt a busy guy, especially these days what with a....More
Dec. 5, 2007

Nightmare before Christmas

Based on the cold hard economic news that is peppering us like ice pellets of late, Santa Claus must be planning on delivering nothing but coal this....More
Nov. 15, 2007

Hybrids happening

It seems only yesterday the only hybrid on any highway was a Toyota Prius or two. Now around where I live, you can see phalanxes of Priuses on any....More
Sep. 19, 2007

It's only competition

Believe it or not, I tried three times to respond to the well-reasoned comment made by Don to my previous post using this site‘s comment function (....More
Sep. 11, 2007

Free-- at a price

The problem with free trade is it's free. That's the part opponents of the Mexican truck demo program that got under way last week seem incapable of....More
Sep. 7, 2007

Is there a Chery in your future?

Back in the year of our nation's Bicentennial, senior slump in the waning days of high school was relieved a bit by a substitute history teacher who....More
Aug. 3, 2007

Roads-- and bridges-- to hell

Once again the unthinkable has happened in America. A highway bridge has collapsed, sending at least five motorists (including a truck driver) to....More
Jul. 24, 2007

About time

Maybe just maybe the court decision throwing out most of the "new" Hours of Service (HOS) regs now in effect for truck drivers will lead to real....More
Jul. 20, 2007

Party on wheels

Straight from the Now-I've-Heard-It-All Department comes this Associated Press (AP) report that ran in a local paper here in Connecticut under this....More
Jul. 13, 2007

Red flag

Perhaps I was overly indoctrinated as a kid in what the good old American Way amounts to--capitalism AND democracy-- but I still think of what so....More
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