The Kabuki Dance Continues The nation’s long election ordeal is over. While that may be good news, we must temper it with the fact that Congress is now back in session. The Senate jumped right into “serious” legislative matt...
The President's Column: Thanksgiving Survey The retail cost of menu items for a classic Thanksgiving dinner including turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie and all the basic trimmings increased less than one percent this year, according...
Nov 15, 2012 | 0 | 4 |
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What Election Day 2012 means to business The French have an expression: “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” The more things change, the more they stay the same. That may well be the most accurate description of the outcome of the ...
Gross Misconceptions This country is at a historic crossroads, and the path we choose can determine our future far beyond the next four years. Our children and grandchildren may someday bless us or curse us for what we...
'Cooling Out' the Voters Confidence men know that their victim -- "the mark" as he has been called -- is eventually going to realize that he has been cheated. But it makes a big difference whether he realizes it immediatel...
The President's Column: Saving the Bacon For some reason, bacon just can’t seem to stay out of the news.
As the nation’s severe drought wore on this summer, consumers became worried about higher food prices and shortages. What food produc...
Nov 07, 2012 | 0 | 2 |
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And Down the Stretch They Come
Nov. 6 is almost here. It likely will be quite a horse race carrying on well into the evening election night. Like antsy thoroughbreds in their final warm-ups, Obama and Romney are pawing the dirt ...
Move Over, Saudi Arabia! Throughout my 40 years representing the business community—first with the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce and then with LABI—I have been a student of energy issues and energy economics.
I was...
Libya and Lies It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he was "offended" by the suggestion that his administration would try to deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has this...
Who’s on first? There are a lot of folks confused about the recent report on the unemployment rate. Some have the audacity to suggest that the numbers have been rigged by the federal government at 7.8 percent (les...
The President's Column: Candidates on Farm Policy Ahead of the upcoming election, President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney spelled out their positions on agriculture issues for the American Farm Bureau Federation.
In a questionnai...
Oct 29, 2012 | 0 | 2 |
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Spending is a Bipartisan Obsession If you engage with government long enough, as I have, it is hard not to become cynical. Then again, cynics often see an unfiltered version of the truth. At this moment, politics weigh heavily upon ...
