Unfortunately, Monday Radar begins with the very bad local economic news that Fluor Corp., one of the biggest employers in Splattastic’s geographic home of Fort Bend County, Texas, has decided to cut 500 jobs here because an unnamed client suddenly decided to cancel a contract. On the hopeful… Read the rest

As if you aren’t living it already, you didn’t need today’s statistics to know the Great Recession is nowhere near over, regardless of the kool aid they’re drinking over at the Wall Street Journal. Here are the numbers behind the U.S. Labor Department’s announcement this morning that the overall… Read the rest

Twenty years ago, my first wife worked part-time in a library, and my full-time newspaper editor’s position paid for just about all of our household expenses. Whether it was learned behavior from my peers, or culturally absorbed via film, TV and books or whether it was just an outgrowth of my own… Read the rest