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    • Editor's Pick
    • 39 Ratings
    • 5347 Views
    • 33 Comments
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    “No Poor Man Ever Gave Me A Job”

    DECEMBER 16, 2011 3:08PM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: business, politics, global economy, farm workers, housekeeping, sweatshops, poor people, poverty

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 2345 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    No thanks, Time Magazine

    DECEMBER 15, 2011 11:02AM

    By Tommi Avicolli Mecca


    Topics: occupy wall street, time magazine, person of the year, politics, news, economy, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 2826 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Disinvesting the Mitt Romney Way

    DECEMBER 15, 2011 8:29AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: mitt romney is cheap, american pad & paper company, boston globe, cutting government, marc wolpow, geoffrey rehnert, thrifty habits”, “two romneys: wealthy man, new york times, romney as ceo, takeover artists, corporate raider, dain capital, herman cain, newt gingrich, michele bachmann, ann romney, mitt romney, 2012 republican primary contest, business, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 2826 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    The Heartbreaking Upper Big Branch Mine Settlement

    DECEMBER 8, 2011 8:33AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: corporate murder, corporations are people too, regulatory capture, mike elk, senator joe manchin, deregulation, government regulation, environmental regulation, all the devils are here, bethany mclean, inc., mccoy coal group, npr, howard berkes, jr., ken ward, richard trumpka, coal tattoo, charleston gazette, alpha national resources, kevin stricklin, increasingly clean coal, tony oppegard, msha, mine safety and health administration, gary wayne quarles. booth goodwin, gary quarles, don blankenship, massey energy, rex mullins, clay mullins, upper big branch mine settlement, upper big branch mine disaster, coal mining disasters, coal mining, coal, environment, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 1608 Views
    • 59 Comments
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    A Gem of a Book Store -- Nicola's Books, Ann Arbor, MI

    DECEMBER 2, 2011 3:02PM

    By Lisa Vogel


    Topics: books, business, economy, declaration of independents, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 2116 Views
    • 63 Comments
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    Out But Not Down--Engineering My Own Business

    NOVEMBER 29, 2011 1:25AM

    By HL Lee


    Topics: the fleeting world, my brilliant second career, open call, startup companies, business, economy, family, technology

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 2346 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    The Supercommittee Solution That Wasn’t

    NOVEMBER 23, 2011 8:33AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: congressional gridlock, paul ryan, senator patrick toomey (r-pa), the center on budget and policy priorities, cut, cut, cut, social security cuts, medicare cuts, farm subsidy cuts, defense cuts, budget cuts, bush tax cuts, supercommittee fails, grover norquist, u.s. debt reduction, sequestration, super committee, supercommittee, taxes, economy, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 3132 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Farewell to Record Stores

    NOVEMBER 22, 2011 11:32AM

    By Gregg Ivers


    Topics: art in crisis, music, popular music, audio, record stores, albums, business, open+call, technology

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 2268 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    The Blues, and a Ford Machine

    NOVEMBER 6, 2011 3:47PM

    By Steven Bridenbaugh


    Topics: guitar, carpentry, idaho, careers, working, music, economy, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 2879 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    Populism in the Twenty-first Century

    NOVEMBER 4, 2011 4:33PM

    By Rodney Roe


    Topics: politics, business, elite, occupy, tea party, economy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 2841 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    'Top Chef': Cooking Large in the Lone Star State

    NOVEMBER 4, 2011 1:24PM

    By Andrea Higbie


    Topics: television, padma lakshmi, tom colicchio, emeril lagasse, ola, hugh acheson, keith rhodes, tyler stone, andrea higbie, bravo, san antonio, alamo, top chef, texas, anathea ashley, harold schwartz, rabbit, pig, animals, business, comedy, economy, food/drink, gossip, health, news, travel, video, television

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 2831 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    The Pizza Man(boy), He Delivers!

    OCTOBER 28, 2011 5:52PM

    By Bert Baruch Wylen


    Topics: my brilliant second career, open+call, open call, business, economy, politics, career, recession, entrepreneur, capitalism, moguls, criminals, opportunities, tyranny, mentor

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 991 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    My Brilliant Second Career

    OCTOBER 27, 2011 1:35AM

    By Educatingben


    Topics: open+call, business, open call, smart phone, pda, computers, technology

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 3575 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Occupy the churches

    OCTOBER 24, 2011 9:30AM

    By Tommi Avicolli Mecca


    Topics: occupy boston, occupy wall street, business, health, politics, news, economy, belief/religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1628 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Is The Message As Important As The Substance?

    OCTOBER 19, 2011 6:50PM

    By Paul Nevins


    Topics: politics, economy, belief/religion, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 27 Ratings
    • 9063 Views
    • 64 Comments
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    Was Steve Jobs Really Insanely Great?

    OCTOBER 13, 2011 12:53PM

    By Martha Nichols


    Topics: business, steve jobs, coco chanel, computers, fashion, brand hype

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 1559 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Company Picnics

    OCTOBER 10, 2011 10:33AM

    By Laura Wilkerson


    Topics: memoir, economics, life stories, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1463 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Steve Jobs

    OCTOBER 6, 2011 2:41AM

    By Rob Cottingham


    Topics: business, technology, ipad, iphone, imac, steve jobs, apple

    • Editor's Pick
    • 27 Ratings
    • 7409 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    Why Are Americans So Docile?

    SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 4:04PM

    By Paul Nevins


    Topics: belief/religion, books, business, economy, family, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 2489 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    The Supercommittee: A Titanic for Our Times

    SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 8:34AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: obama administration, mitt romney, alternative minimum tax for corporations, dick cheney, warren buffett, gridlock, john kyl, supercommittee, congressional budget office, cbo, douglas elmendorf, “budget chief seeks wholesale reordering of government priorities”, l.a. times, lisa mascaro, economic recovery, economic meltdown, economy, business, politics, sequestration

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