Head to Colorado Springs. More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet. The city is dumping firefighting jobs, a vice team, burglary investigators, beat cops — dozens of police and fire positions will go unfilled. The parks department removed...
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During the recent (ongoing) economic unpleasantness, it was common to hear talk in certain circles of how we wanted to avoid a repeat or Japan’s lost decade. However, as many people have pointed out, the aughts have not been kind to Americans in any way, shape or form. (Unless of course you were in...
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CNN Small Business has Des Moines as the Number 8 mid-sized city in America to launch a small business. Dubuque, Waterloo and Ames are ranked eight, seventeen and eighteen among smaller cites. Four cities in the top 50. That is eight percent of the total. Considering that Iowa is the 30th largest state, I’d...
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From the San Diego Union Tribune, the hometown paper Bridgepoint Edcucation (Ticker: BPI), the parent company of Ashford University comes the following story from Saturday, September 5: San Diego-based Bridgepoint Education, the for-profit operator of online college programs and two universities, was among Wall Street’s top losers yesterday after it announced that it might...
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and vice versa. Those were the words of General Motors’ then-President Charles Wilson in 1953 at his confirmation hearings to become Secretary of Defense. A couple of weeks ago, I made the argument — knowing perfectly well that it would never happen — that the best thing for the nation and for the US...
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