After decades of sending jobs and production facilities to China and other nations with cheap, abundant labor, many top U.S. companies are now looking homeward for cheap labor and lower production costs. With record unemployment and a stagnant economy, the cost of labor in the U.S. has become much more competitive with those in emerging [...]
My family has owned the house I now own for a bit more than 50 years. Built in 1957, it’s one of the older homes in the area. When we moved in, the land behind us was undeveloped–just an old, overgrown field that once had been farmland–and plantation land before that. An area across the [...]
For those who came of age in the 1980s, there are a number of iconic songs, television shows, movies and events that may meld together in your minds. A montage of sorts. But, whether you loved or hated the movie, “Back to the Future,” which starred a young Michael J. Fox, is definitely part of [...]