Talk about getting into the wrong business. More than 100 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority bus and train operators took home paychecks topping $100,000 in fiscal 2006 because of lush overtime earnings that have skewed Metro’s budget and sent pension costs spiraling out of control under a uniquely generous employee retirement plan. I definitely need […]
I think we're several decades away (at least) before the newspaper becomes something that kids learn in some elementary school history lesson. (And what will people use to wrap their fish or line their birdcages?) But it's no surprise to anyone that the print media is in some serious trouble. Circulation continues to decline and […]
Sixty years ago today Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers and baseball's color barrier was shattered. This was seven years before the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education was decided. It was 17 years before the groundbreaking Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law. For the […]