As one gets older one becomes more familiar with death, and learns it gives rise to different emotions in different circumstances. With the death of my father, Michael Prevor, I find only a deep weariness. The eulogy I gave my father was really a way for me to express how my fath …
Joe Nocera, wrote an astonishing piece in the New York Times titled, “Poisoned Politics of Keystone XL.” Most of the piece rehashes criticism of President Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone XL pipeline,which is designed to bring oil from the tar sands in Al …
Jack Welch and his wife Suzy kicked off their new management column for Reuters with a piece titled “Ron Paul and the pink slip that could decide the election.” In it, the Welches try to apply lessons from how businesses fire executives to the political challenge the …
Alan Blinder’s Wall Street Journal column, “Our National Jobs Emergency,” unwittingly provides an answer to why all the Obama administration’s machinations to improve our economy have failed. Professor Blinder is surely a smart guy, but, like the pres …
Visiting day at summer camp is in just three weeks. I’m told this is much harder for the parents than the children, and I suspect that is typically true. After I dropped off William, I stopped at the Roscoe Diner for lunch, about 15 minutes from the Camp.
Cornell economics professor Robert H.
Our brethren in the European produce trade have suffered enormous damages as a result of the food safety crisis related to E. coli 0104:H4. One unfortunate part is that public health epidemiologists have come across like the Keystone Cops.
In David Brooks’ recent New York Times column, “The Missing Fifth,” he identifies a problem — fewer men are working.
The New York Times ran a piece by Kent A.
A-Rod has purchased a Manhattan condo in a newly constructed building. The developers took advantage of NY's 421a program where developers who construct or create affordable housing on under-used land get their real estate taxes phased in over a period of years.
Recently our friend Jan Fleming began to let her family and friends know that she was soon to start chemotherapy.
Our piece, "Dr. Sloan Misses The Point: A Fighting Spirit Is Vital In Overcoming Illness," brought us several letters.
An op-ed piece appeared in The New York Times by Richard P. Sloan, a professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, titled, "A Fighting Spirit Won't Save Your Life." Dr.
Over the years, I have often shared important personal events through my writing. When I recently wrote a little piece about my son William, Disney World and the nature of Christmas miracles, I was already aware that my family desperately needed another one.
Today, the Senate is likely to vote on the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010 (S510). But the bill is little more than an enormous grant of money and power to the Food and Drug Administration and a lot of reporting burdens imposed on the private sector.
Solutions to the unemployment crisis must begin with removing the perverse obstacles to employment that have been erected. Here are ten specific policy proposals that can dramatically and quickly reduce unemployment.
Distinguished author, lecturer, curator and television host Joan Nathan will be a featured speaker at the inaugural New York Produce Show & Conference November 9-11, 2010.
Public policy helps determine where economic activity occurs.
One mustn't reduce the sphere of economic activity from which entrepreneurs can draw sustenance.
There is a very good reason why the White House – even with a generally complicit media – is having trouble persuading Americans that the stimulus spending is creating jobs: There seems to be an enormous disconnect between local economic development and creating net new jobs …
The challenge for conservatives is to persuade the populace that, over time, we will be better off limiting government than allowing total flexibility.
The space program as 'a way to reach out to the Muslim world,' according to the NASA administrator.
Fannie Mae has introduced a new policy that prevents people who have defaulted on their mortgages from getting a new Fannie Mae loan for seven years – up from five previously.
In his reverence for certainty and belief that absolutes are capable of being summoned into existence – on countless subjects, with oil drilling, food safety, and war itself – the president is not actually particularly unusual; he is merely reflecting the prejudices of peopl …
When kosher meat processor Agriprocessors was raided by ICE, there were allegations of ill-treatment of the workers. This led some to object that when consumers buy kosher food, they expect more than food prepared to meet standards of kashrut.
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