Uber. The cell-phone-based taxi service has stirred up a fair share of controversy this year while giving traditional cabbies a run for their money. In one camp are the Uber haters. They dis the slick service for spiking prices during peak periods of demand, scold it for seeking revenge on […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
Mike McMillan was a bully. He was also a dumbo because he told me there was no Santa Claus and he was, of course, wrong. How do I know? The United States and Canadian governments acknowledge Santa Claus by tracking him every year to make sure he is safe in […]
The Sunshine State is known not only for its beaches, blue skies and warm temperatures but also hurricanes and tropical storms. While “It Never Rains in California,” Florida sees a lot of the wet stuff. Residents who have experienced bad weather know it easily can lead to water damage in […]
How do you hire an excellent attorney and pay for the services in a personal injury case? Like any other professional, the hourly fee for lawyers is largely driven by market forces, but in the case of attorneys a substantial consideration is simple: how really good is the attorney at […]
As the new year approaches, a new crop of teen drivers will hit the streets. How can parents keep them safe behind the wheel? Let us count the ways. Today’s teen drivers live in a dramatically different world than their fathers and mothers did when they first put the pedal […]
If you went to bed without snow on the ground; slept soundly all night and awoke to a snow covered ground all around you, what could you reasonable say? It snowed. You did not have to actually see the activity of snow falling; your good and reasonable judgment tells you […]
While the corporate conglomerates that comprise the pharmaceutical industry have waded their way onto the World Wide Web, they still have a little evolving to do. They need to respond to research that shows more than half of consumers looking up disease information are doing so on their cell phones. […]
In our dominantly digital world, the ability to find anything and everything online not only is enjoyed but also expected. Need to settle a bar bet about who the No. 1-ranked college football team is for the week? Google it. Want to find out the name of that familiar song […]
Admit it, how many of us covet Converse, that classic American sneaker with a studly sense of style? Teenagers across the country aspired to own a pair of stitched-canvas, thick-laced, rubber-sole shoes synonymous with the greasers of the 1950s, nonconformists of the 1960s and hipsters of the 1970s. They were […]
Concerns are growing faster than the grass that used to cover school athletic fields across the country. That’s because more than 10,000 fields now comprise artificial turf mixed with “crumb rubber” – vulcanized tires spread across swaths of land on which baseball, football, lacrosse, soccer, softball and other sports are […]