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More on the Kennedy Center Name Change

“‘Trump’ Kennedy Center Gets SLAPP-ed,” Taken from “Above the Law,”   Liz Dye on June 08, 2026 Bravo As we wait to see if the Kennedy Center complies with Judge Cooper’s order to take Trump’s name off the building by June 12, the arts center lost yet another legal battle on Friday. This time it was Judge Tanya […]

Doing Business and Maintaining Your Integrity

I was in materials and logistics all of my life. I was working as management for various companies globally. Always traveling internationally and being gone for weeks at a time. While traveling and visiting company plants or various suppliers over sea’s, it was not unusual to be offered gifts. The problem with such is you […]

Your mother was right

How many of us heard some variation of this from their mom: “If your friends jumped off a cliff (or bridge), would you do it too?” If RFK Jr told you to treat measles with vitamin A, would you do it too? “A team from Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts analyzed Google search trends data […]

The nothingburger

I somehow missed this, but a couple months ago the Trump Administration abandoned its effort to cut indirect cost reimbursements for federal grants to colleges and universities to 15%. Just before I retired, the indirect cost rate at Saint Louis University was 51.5%, so this cut would have been devastating to research at SLU. When […]