Mortgages Borrowers with mortgage troubles must wait a period of time before seeking another loan. Behind the Wheel | 2011 Chrysler Town & CountryThe company says the new minivan has been only re-engineered a bit, but the van feels like an all-new, and better, vehicle. New Cars SearchUsed Cars SearchMore in Automobiles Corner Office: John W. Rowe John W. Rowe of Exelon, the electric utility, says he learned early in his career that it’s always important to take action — “to always be looking for something to do that moves the ball.” Find the best job in the New York metro area and beyond. Continue reading →
SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. — The controversy surrounding Elizabeth Warren’s ethnic heritage and whether she misrepresented herself as a minority in the past may have engulfed her Senate campaign and the news media, but in parts of western Massachusetts, voters seem either mystified by it or unconcerned. Steven Senne/Associated Press Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat running for the Senate, at a diner in Shrewsbury, Mass. What do you think about the flap over Elizabeth Warren’s racial ancestry? How about Scott Brown’s record in the Senate? On Thursday at 1 p.m. ET, in our TimesCast video program, Katharine Q. Seelye will respond to a selection of your questions and comments about the Massachusetts Senate race. A one-stop destination for the latest political news — from The Times and ... Continue reading →
Top, Obama for America; bottom, Romney for President An Obama ad, top left and right, featured steelworkers who lost their jobs years after Bain Capital took over GST Steel. In contrast, a Romney ad showed employees of Steel Dynamics discussing how Bain Capital’s investment helped them achieve the American dream. In an advertisement released this month by President Obama’s campaign, Mitt Romney and the private equity firm he co-founded, Bain Capital, are painted as vampires. They sucked the lifeblood out of GST Steel in the 1990s, which pushed it into bankruptcy, destroying jobs and eliminating pensions. In a quick counterattack, the Romney campaign released an ad that highlighted the robust job growth at another Bain investment, the manufacturing company Steel Dynamics. The ad featured employees ... Continue reading →
The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which distinguished itself amid great adversity during Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, is about to enact large staff cuts and may cut back its print publishing schedule to several days a week, according to two employees with knowledge of the plans.Newhouse Newspapers, which owns the Times-Picayune, will apparently be working off a blueprint the company used in Ann Arbor, Mich., where it reduced the frequency of the Ann Arbor News, emphasized the Web site as a primary distributor of news and in the process instituted wholesale layoffs to cut costs.A request for comment from the newspaper’s editor, Jim Amoss, late Wednesday night was not returned.The plans have been kept under wraps, but the newspaper will likely cease to exist as a ... Continue reading →
His death was announced by the Zenith Electronics Corporation, where Mr. Polley began his career in the stockroom before rising through the engineering ranks to invent the device, called the Flash-Matic, in 1955. “Just think!,” an advertisement breathlessly proclaimed that year. “Without budging from your easy chair you can turn your new Zenith Flash-Matic set on, off, or change channels. You can even shut off annoying commercials while the picture remains on the screen.” The Flash-Matic remote, which worked like a flashlight, was shaped like a snub-nosed revolver. The shape was a considered choice on Mr. Polley’s part, as he explained in 2000, letting viewers in the age of ubiquitous TV westerns “shoot out” commercials. Flash-Matic made the TV audience less captive, though also less ... Continue reading →
Doug Mills/The New York TimesPresident Obama boarded Marine One on Wednesday for a trip to Colorado to give the commencement address at the Air Force Academy.COLORADO SPRINGS — It’s not every day that a White House boasts of being more conservative than Herbert Hoover. But there was Jay Carney, the presidential press secretary, on Wednesday telling reporters aboard Air Force One that Mr. Hoover was a more profligate spender than President Obama.Clearly unimpressed by the questions he was getting from reporters, Mr. Carney volunteered an extensive and robust answer to one that was not asked, defending Mr. Obama against Republican charges of fiscal recklessness. He read a passage from Rex Nutting of MarketWatch stating that spending under Mr. Obama had grown even more slowly than ... Continue reading →
