Entrepreneurship is the big dream for a lot of people. The take-off point is often that you’ve got an idea for a hot new product or a fresh way to provide a service, and you’re understandably anxious to get it going. Or maybe it’s that the opportunity has presented itself to buy someone else’s business […]
The Poisoning of Flint Michigan’s Drinking Water
This story was on the front page of the New York Times on January 20. Pretty shocking story. But if you look into it, it’s been all over the front pages of the state press in Michigan for months. Local papers and MLive have been talking about it nonstop for at least five months — that’s […]
Foraying Into Financing
Most entrepreneurs that take a trip down the road into business require some sort of financing to get things going. Regardless of what area of business they are in, most will require some sort of assistance from a lending institution. With the troubles of the recent credit crunches in many economies, it can be more […]
7 Key Steps for Boomers to Working Online in Retirement
If you are like me when I retired, you do “need” to work. Even if you don’t “need” to work for the economics of it, you still “need” to work for the sense of meaningful involvement. Your financial survival as a retiree likely depends on some combination of retirement accounts, retirement savings, Social Security, rents […]
How do we clean up a toxic disaster in LA’s back yard?
By Olga Khazan A version of this story ran in the Chatsworth Patch and NeonTommy. It’s only a 45-minute drive from downtown Los Angeles to one of the most toxic hills in the country _ a vivid case study of the chaos that ensues when scientific hubris meets corporate carelessness. Just follow U.S. 101 north into Ventura County, take […]
India’s Societal Evolutionary Process Inspires Emerging Writer
Sharon Shefali Gupta, author of Toofani Days, Valentine Nights, a romance with multi-cultural layerings, set in Agra, the city of the Taj Mahal, said writing captured her fancy in childhood, but only recently approached the writing life more seriously. "Only recently did I manage to focus as a writer and decide […]