The sign on the refrigerator in the office break room offers a firm rebuke.
“Everyone works hard for their money,” it states. “Please only eat what you have brought in for yourself.”
Someone needs to make a copy of that sign and hang it on Wall Street.
The $700 billion bailout before Congress seems distasteful to almost every [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Margin Call: Living the subprime dream
Posted in Margin Call, tagged bailout, subprime, Wall Street on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Margin Call: Pedaling out of the Pony Express era
Posted in Margin Call, Uncategorized, tagged Belt Highway, oil, Pony Express, Roayls, Segway, Tour of Missouri on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Professional bicyclists will gather in the shadow of the Pony Express statue Monday.
It seems unlikely that an Old West town became the starting point for the Tour of Missouri, a cycling competition of international fame.
It’s just as unlikely that 150 years ago, anyone would have predicted that horses and mochilas would be replaced with [...]
The hard working farmer
Posted in Ministry, tagged farmers, field day, II Timothy 2:6 on September 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The first event I covered as an agriculture reporter at the News-Press was the annual field day at the Hundley-Whaley Research Farm in Albany, Mo.
Each year, it was a fun anniversary to go back and ride the hay wagon, look at bean fields and compare corn herbicides. This year, the ag reporter had another assignment, [...]
