Archive for July, 2009

Sunday, professor Louis Henry Gates retreated from his threat to sue Sgt. James Crowley. Friday, President Obama retreated from his charge that the Cambridge cops “acted stupidly.” As Crowley has not budged an inch — his arrest of Gates...

Are Republicans too pessimistic about the economy? I put this question to Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., this week, and it would be hard to describe his response as optimistic. The senator trash-talked Vice President Joe Biden’s recent defense of the...

The media are never better at displaying their economic illiteracy than when they report on the minimum wage. “Workers got a raise on Friday when the federal minimum wage was hiked 70 cents to $7.25 an hour,” the Christian Science Monitor...

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell reinstated former star quarterback Michael Vick last Monday. Of course, there are conditions to Vick’s reinstatement. Once a team signs Vick, which I believe will occur, he can participate in preseason practices and meetings....

For the first time since lawmakers turned the lights out on a proposed clean energy standard for public utility companies, renewable energy will be seriously on the agenda for Florida’s power players this week. The biggest stakeholders in bio-energy...

Retailers are bracing for a weak back-to-school shopping season in Florida and around the country, with the recession-battered economy expected to dampen sales and no sales tax holiday in Florida this year to entice customers. “We have concerns this...

Two Miami couples have filed a class action lawsuit against The Hartford Insurance Company, alleging the company has not properly paid claims related to destruction from Hurricane Wilma in 2005. Irwin and Claudia Mounsey and Fred and Muriel Godfrey filed...

The iPhone has brought a lot of unique features to portable gaming — a large, multi-touch screen, a tilt sensor and significant built-in storage among them. But one of the iPhone’s most revolutionary features is its large library of instantly...

Venturing where only low-cost carriers have gone before, Continental has become the first big legacy airline to offer satellite TV, a move that could push its peers to follow suit at a time when competition is the fiercest it’s been in years. Since...

Released in 1984, “Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers” didn’t stir it up on the charts. It entered Billboard at No. 168 and peaked at No. 54. But the reggae icon’s posthumous collection has lived up to its name by becoming...