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People Are Living And Working Longer, But Are They Enjoying It?
By PAUL NATINSKY If it seems a quick look around a work setting reveals more silver locks and sensible shoes, it’s not an illusion. There really are more older workers bringing their myriad talents and decades of experience to into workspaces. Almost 20 percent of...
Test Balloons Dot The Washington Sky
Actions to eliminate, extort and censure the press, local and state governments, law firms, universities, businesses and federal officials are in full swing.
Michigan’s Marijuana Market Matures
Aug 04, 2025 Michigan’s marijuana market is emerging as one of the most mature in a vastly complex web extending across the country. But the state’s status is a mixed blessing, according to some of the industry’s stakeholders. The biggest and most ironic conundrum...
Auto Industry: Uncertain Road Ahead
CBS’s Shame and The Rise of Indy Journalism
Comedian Stephen Colbert’s banishment from CBS is a furtherance of the cycle of shame unfolding at the legendary news network. But even as CBS and its parent company, Paramount, fork over $16 million to settle a frivolous lawsuit, lose cornerstone news professionals,...
$ub$tack
Media outlets are becoming propaganda hubs or self-censoring soft serves under pressure from the Trump administration, greatly endangering the exercise of the constitutional right to a free press. This stifling of the free and truthful flow information is especially...
NIH Cuts, Which Way Will The Wind Blow?
By PAUL NATINSKY Like the rest of the cuts by chainsaw, the 15-percent cap on indirect costs for National Institutes of Health projects is a sharp-edged reduction in spending. Purportedly targeted at reducing waste and inefficiency, the indiscriminate reduction belies...
10 Seconds Over Portland
To suddenly be up against a biologically stronger and faster athlete who is operating with a body possessed of the athletic frame of an adolescent boy is beyond unfair. The records earned, the achievements born of months and years of training, the hard-fought wins are washed away overnight.
It Takes More Than A Boycott
By PAUL NATINSKY A series of one-week boycotts of products and services owned and operated by American and international plutocrats isn’t going to make a difference politically or practically. The richest man in the world was willing to absorb a 50 percent decrease in...
We’ve Been Here Before
The current crisis caught many off guard, although it probably should not have