Economy Sends Some Amish Back to Their Roots
Freeman Wingard is Amish, one of the so-called plain people, but he was living large. He took his family to dine at restaurants every week, made trips to Chicago and vacationed in Florida. Wingard was earning $40 per hour working in a factory that made recreational vehicles. RV sales slowed as the economy stumbled. A [...]
Richard’s Weekly Sports Round-up
This past week, the sports world was out of control. There were scandals, signings, an NBA championship won and a Stanley Cup won. Who says the Summer sports months are boring? Actually, wait about one month and come back to me. If you spent your whole weekend on the beach and missed all the major [...]
Competition Would Save Medicine, Too
Competition so regularly brings us better stuff — cars, phones, shoes, medicine — that we’ve come to expect it. We complain on the rare occasion the supermarket doesn’t carry a particular ice-cream flavor. We just assume the store will have 30,000 items, that it will be open 24/7, and that the food will be fresh [...]
Lakers Finish Off Orlando Magic
We’ve seen this movie before. Your father saw it. His father saw it. The Lakers being handed a championship trophy, led by one Hall of Famer or another or another. Do the Lakers ever run out of superstars, or titles? The line stretches back into the fog of history. There is no end in sight. [...]
NASA Struggles with Launch Bottleneck
Gridlock at the nation’s launch pads is getting so bad that NASA plans to have space shuttle Endeavour bump a high-priority moon mission, costing taxpayers money to keep workers on contract. The bottleneck at U.S. launch pads in Florida has already led to costly delays in launching some of NASA’s scientific spacecraft and could force [...]
Transition to Digital TV Went Remarkably Well
It’s official: The USA is now a digital TV nation. The switch to digital TV, or DTV, on Friday went off without any major hitches, the Federal Communications Commission reported. More than 900 full-power TV stations shut down their analog signals on Friday. Going forward, they will broadcast exclusively digital signals. Digital signals offer better [...]
On Simulcast, Patrick Seeks ‘Voyeur TV’
There’s efficiency in simulcasting radio shows on TV: You’re not letting much go to waste. The problem can be that radio on TV, while it might have an interesting soundtrack, might not be all that exciting to watch. But Dan Patrick, whose syndicated radio show will begin simulcasting on DirecTV’s 101 Network starting Aug. 3, [...]
Marketers Warm Up to Iced Coffee
Joe on the rocks – aka iced coffee – may be the summer of 2009′s hottest beverage. Perhaps no one knows that better than convenience kingpin 7-Eleven, which, for the first time, is rolling it out nationwide at 5,000 self-service beverage counters. Also catching the iced-coffee wave big time: McDonald’s, Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts and Cold [...]
‘Hangover’ Wins Over Women
“The Hangover” lingered another weekend at No. 1, becoming the first film of summer to take the top spot at the box office for two consecutive weeks. And it did so by turning into something no one expected: a date movie. In a rare summer weekend for reruns, the raunchy comedy raked in $33.4 million, [...]
Governor Crist Signs School Accountability Measure
Gov. Charlie Crist signed into law Friday a bill that would require low performing schools to show they are improving or be forced to make some changes. Crist and the Jeb Bush-backed education advocacy group Foundation for Florida’s Future heralded the bill as a step forward for quality education. But some school district officials are [...]
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