Mo day at Yankee Stadium. A little hero worships once in a while is ok….if you pick the right heroes. I’ll have more thoughts on Mariano Rivera later this week, but for now, if you wanted to be at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, but couldn’t, here’s a flavor of it [Keep reading]
Perhaps you are drawn irresistibly, as so many in America are, to the story of Huguette Clark – the rich heiress and daughter of a robber baron who died leaving behind a set of Empty Mansions and a big pot of money people are fighting over. My friend and long-time [Keep reading]
The arrival of Labor Day is like the playing of “Last Dance,” at a wedding. What, it’s over already? But we just started dancing… Endings are hard, and always sneak up us, but they must be marked. Consider this my farewell to readers of MSNBC’s Red Tape Chronicles…and the announcement [Keep reading]
American consumers owe less and are paying their bills on time more, the New York Federal Reserve said in a report released Wednesday. The results certainly sound cheery, but debt data is notoriously subject to interpretation. What’s true for you is also true for the country: Some debt is good, [Keep reading]
I’ve been a journalist since 1990 focused on trying to make the world a little more fair. If it makes you angry, I’ve probably written about it, either on my Red Tape Chronicles blog for NBC News or in one of my four books. I’m an independent journalist and author now. You can [Keep reading]
Pew reported May 29 that married women now earn more than their husbands in one-quarter of all households. This is an easy talker as a gender story, but the deeper truth about dual-income households is easy to miss. Take a brief moment to celebrate that which should never have been [Keep reading]
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