The numbers game courtesy of The LA Times: Job cuts by firms including Caterpillar, General Motors, Texas Instruments, Home Depot, Sprint Nextel and Pfizer brought the total of jobs shed so far this month to 187,550, more than November or December and well over double the number of January 2008, according to employment firm Challenger, [...]

I owe one of my friends a ton of money. I took out a loan to pay him back, but decided to buy a corporate jet instead and hand out bonuses to people I work with instead. Is this a scene from the movie Dumb and Dumber? Remember when Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels finally [...]

Why not be the best? It’s a question often asked around Rhode Island, yet it’s something we only think about when it comes to sports it seems. Why can’t URI, PC, Brown, Bryant, the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins be the best, either on the national or conference level? Can’t they compete? Get the [...]

Open a newspaper or turn on the TV news and you hear a lot of information about the Great Depression. Our grandparents could probably tell you much about that time period in the late 1920’s and 1930’s. Ever wonder why grandma and grandpa were so frugal with their money?

2009 is a big year for WWII veterans. In Europe, it’ll be the 65th anniversary of D-Day on June 6th. 65th anniversaries are also on tap for Operation Market Garden in Holland, the start of the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium, Anzio, Monte Cassino and the breakout from France.

New President Barack Obama has almost 4,000,000 million friends and supporters on his Facebook page and 2,550,000 mentions on You Tube. Has a candidate ever used the web any better to promote himself and his message?