The Collage

We resurrected and renamed Sam Halser's Trifles blog for presenting the 3,000+ pages he wrote before going off to prison. We also have l...

Personal reasons bring an end to Trifles. Thanks to all who subscribed and commented over it life. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. TURNING and turning...

Indiana Manufacturing Jobs Drop Nearly 8 Percent According to Industrial Directory : "The Directory reports Indiana suffered a 1% loss ...

Latest new courtesy of The Indianapolis Business Journal - Hubler of Shelbyville on GM closure list : " Hubler Chevrolet Center In...

The Future of the American Dream from The Nation "Here is the grand vision I suggest Americans can pursue: the right of all citizens t...

No one is happy about what is being done in Washington. That is the upshot of my reading. I say something is better than nothing. Missing ...

Reading Robert J. Samuelson's Obama's Dangerous Debt and I have to wonder. I generally favor Samuelson but he does not offer any ...

I like how E. J. Dionne writes about Obama's Notre Dame visit in Obama Confronts Foes With Faith : "For his part, Obama gave wha...

We actually got a crowd downtown and lots of good looking cars - lots of Bel Air s for some reason. The pictures looking south were taken th...

I suspect that we will see more regulation of hedge funds on this side of the Atlantic. The Sunday Herald published EU puts Scotland’s sma...

Obama Handshake and the Politics of Civility Those who are alarmed about President Obama's easy, casual camaraderie with Chavez misunde...

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times — HBS Working Knowledge : "In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps i...

Ball State documentary on the National Road debuts with free screenings A Ball State University documentary about the Indiana segment of the...

Not me. Whihc i s maybe why I find this and Rush Limbaugh's rants equally amusing. A Lexicon of Disappointment Whatever the last straw, ...

From Secretary of State - Securities Division because it is a very good idea: Teaching Children to Manage Money by Indiana Secretary of Sta...

First off, the bankruptcy petition courtesy of The New York Times is here . Things gets interesting about page 32. From The Kokomo Tribun...

Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy - Peter Bregman - HarvardBusiness.org In the worst economy we've seen in decades, Passlogi...

Okay, we all have been concentrating on Chrysler, and while not as big, Lauth unit seeks bankruptcy protection has osmethng to say about ou...

Some questions from The Indianapolis Business Journal 's NewsTalk blog's Fodder for special session Should anything else be put on ...

Reading The Sunday Herald from Scotland and got to thinking that here is an argument against CAFO's that I had not seen put quite this w...

Congress Approves Obama's $3.4 Trillion Spending Blueprint - washingtonpost.com Despite a persistent recession and soaring budget defic...

Honestly, first I had seen of this. Obama himself may be the best advertisement for the power of a good education but it will take some tim...

This article of his from The New York Review of Books seems even a bit more pertinent, The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs . The...

Tom Shales - Tom Shales: Obama Deftly Handles Another Prime-Time News Conference - washingtonpost.com Barack Obama is a truly flabbergasting...

A tip of my hat to CatherinePoole.com , Highland High School graduate and a friend.

Give it a look here . Give our Democratic Senators a lot of points for sheer pluck. Never have we had the majority in the Senate in my lif...

Pressure on GM grows as bankers attack survival plan - Times Online A statement issued by GM bondholders said: “We believe the offer to be ...

And while, I hope there is more to come, this song really hit home tonight. Got to break down and have some Doors sometime.

An Indiana Town Appreciates Obama, and That Stimulus Cash, Too : "Thanks to the stimulus plan, a part-time dentist and three other heal...

Lords of Finance: 1929, the Great Depression and the Bankers who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed review Norman became a broken man when ­s...

Business Line | thestarpress.com | The Star Press A group of Ball State University business and telecommunications student fellows will debu...

Stimulus impact to be discussed Friday | thestarpress.com | The Star Press There has been plenty of speculation over what impact the Federa...

The writer sees what is wrong with Obama's economic policy here. Not having bought the hype, I am willing ot give Obama time.  I keep th...

GM to announce death of Pontiac, other restructuring | thestarpress.com | The Star Press Both people confirmed that the plan includes the de...

Industry Ignored Its Scientists on Climate - NYTimes.com But a document filed in a federal lawsuit demonstrates that even as the coalition w...

Chrysler and Union Agree to Deal Before Federal Deadline - NYTimes.com DETROIT — Union leaders said Sunday that they had reached an agreemen...

Kokomo Tribune; Kokomo, Indiana - Chrysler lenders make counteroffer DETROIT -- Chrysler’s lenders have delivered another counterproposal to...

AN OBAMA OVERLOAD - New York Post In his first 100 days in office, former President George W. Bush preempted primetime only once, for his St...

Strategies - The Road Back From the ’29 Crash Wasn’t So Long, After All - NYTimes.com But a careful analysis of the record shows that the pi...

Economic View - Before the Tea Party, Thank Your Lucky Stars - NYTimes.com Other protesters contended that the tax system already strains th...