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Take Me Back to the Ball Game?

“Take me out to the ball game…. Buy me some peanuts and crackerjack. I don’t care if I ever come back!” Opening Day. It’s tomorrow.  Yet I’m nauseous. And, it isn’t from peanuts and Cracker Jack–it’s betting. It has infused the game.  The number one story on ESPN.com today isn’t

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Need a Parachute?

Damon Carson likes to tell stories about the goods he sells. He takes the discards of industry and government and reframes them as wonderfully useful

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Buying a Job Shop

Dave Dolan runs one of the biggest screw machine operations in North America, KKSP Precision Products of Glendale Heights, IL. The company started in the

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One Chance

The issue that seems to be giving America heartburn in 2016 and driving the election rhetoric is the gulf between the well-off and the falling-off.

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The Dune

The path was steep and winding, inaccessible by car. It led to the beach on the Pacific Ocean at Monterey Bay, near where my granddaughter

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Polish-ish Jew

Two weeks ago I spent several days in Poland, staying in Kraków and Warsaw. Poland is a country full of beauty with a rich history.

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