Tariffic News?
When Donald Trump announced his grandiose plan for trade tariffs on April 2, 2025 some people cringed, others cheered, and a few called their lawyers. One of those was Rick Woldenberg, the CEO of a family-owned company in Vernon Hills, Illinois a suburb of Chicago. His firm, Learning Resources, outsources

Machining 2025?
If mighty General Electric is in such bad shape that its Board is considering breaking the company apart, it makes one consider how our best

Acmesaurus
The sound that a 20 ton traveling crane makes as it stolidly rolls north to south, south to north, on its electrified path, is very
Making the Nut
We all absorb things from our childhood that literally wire our cerebral cortex and remain with us as we mature. There are images, sayings, emblems
5 Spindles of Fury
New Year, new opportunities. I foresee a flurry of activity in 2018 in acquisitions in the machining world. Recently one of the largest screw machine

Gratitude 2017
Soon I’ll be 38 years old. I often question whether I have used my time wisely so far to reach a daily happy existence and
Good Morning!
For the last 10 years my general sleep pattern usually consisted of going to bed sometime between 12:00 A.M. and 1:00 A.M (sometimes later) and

