As America prepares to tuck into turkeys, Byrd became our longest serving lawmaker, Birds Eye is being bought by Blackstone (BX) and yesterday’s equity action was one for the birds. With h

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When the NBA rolled into Atlanta in 2003 with its All-Star Week events, so did “The World’s Famous Players Ball,” an annual gathering of some of the country’s most notorious p

The United States economy might not be doing so well, but local economies are fighting back.To combat outsourcing of goods and services, and to keep revenue within the community, many areas have inst

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Here is an email from Eugene Holloway, a Maryland attorney, on the rising cost of college education:  When I attended law school at George Washington University in 1969, the tuition was $1,90

When Motorola (MOT) beat Street consensus last quarter, there was a collective shout of “it’s back,” echoed by the number of upgrades of its stock. Much of that was predicated upon

As the economy slowly resuscitates, companies might use a slow rebound as an excuse to ignore their social responsibilities. But I ask you to take a lesson from IBM, and not, as the company says, &ld

Editors Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It, a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest, most controversial companies. For past co

Last week the Knight Commission released the major findings of a two-year study into the specific information needs of communities in an increasingly tech-driven and media-saturated world. The 148-pa