Big Pooh and Phonte are just like everyone else who relies on commercial airlines these days. ...more

June 12, 2008

A former CEO leading Barack Obama's search for a vice presidential candidate resigned abruptly Wednesday after questions about his home mortgage deals became a distraction for a candidate who argues he is not influenced by special interests. ...more

June 12, 2008

ridiculous and wise - related to the race for the Democratic presidential nomination . . . ...more

June 10, 2008

Quotations - ridiculous and wise - related to the race for the Democratic presidential nomination . . . ...more

June 9, 2008

Putting a market price on emissions of greenhouse gases will have to wait for a new year, a new president and a new plan. ...more

June 9, 2008

Verizon Wireless is in talks to buy Alltel Communications LLC, the country's fifth-largest wireless carrier by subscribers, for $27 billion, according to news reports. ...more

June 5, 2008

"The Last Lecture" (Hyperion, $21.95), a best seller written by a professor dying of pancreatic cancer and a Wall Street Journal writer, is the perfect example of how the Internet is changing publishing and what people read. ...more

June 1, 2008

Federal authorities, responding to the subprime-mortgage crisis, have formed a task force to determine whether lenders or Wall Street firms participated in fraud. ...more

May 6, 2008

Yahoo Inc. is discussing a possible Internet partnership with media conglomerate News Corp., its latest effort to repel Microsoft Corp.'s takeover bid or pry a better offer from the unsolicited suitor, a person familiar with the situation said Wednesday. ...more

February 14, 2008

Research In Motion Ltd.'s second BlackBerry failure in 10 months risks damaging the company's reputation as the most reliable service and gives a boost to Apple, Microsoft Corp. and Nokia Oyj. ...more

February 13, 2008