With the economic turmoil of late and hospitality companies tightening their belts, one might think that restaurant software and back office purchases would be one of the first items to go on indefinite hold.

If those supporting the democratic process are not exceedingly vigilant, the GOP could use these tactics--assault on voter registration, electronic voting--to once again take the White House.

The latest outgrowth of the housing crisis, the meltdown on Wall Street, threatens to gradually corrode economic activity on Main Street, mainly by disabling the credit on which so many everyday transactions depend -- but also by frightening people.

In the past month, the country has needed brave and imaginative political leadership to face a weakening economy and real suffering by the nation's poorest people. Severe problems are simultaneously battering the business community, producers and consume

Every year about this time, I enjoy making ha has about Okrahoma — make that Oklahoma — an overalls-ish state north of here that has a great football team made up largely of players stolen from Texas.