Lorraine Yapps Cohen

Regulated Class in California seeks reparations from CARB

California Air Resources Board (CARB) met on Thursday, May 24. On the agenda was discussion toward deciding where and how to spend the billions raised from cap-and-trade carbon trading in the state. At the public meeting...

Being nice, the decay of American virtue

Being nice: it’s a national obsession. There are folks who are nice and those who aren’t. We expect it from every relationship and social encounter. There’s a price our nation is...

Entitlement, where Americans lost their senses

Former New York City mayor, Ed Koch, said it out loud, “we must take measures to keep them solvent while always keeping them as entitlements” according to a Newsmax report. Koch was referring to Medicare and Social Security...

Can Jerry Brown learn from Chris Christie?

California and New Jersey have a lot in common despite dissimilarities in so many ways. As states deep in the mire of political bureaucracies, New Jersey is making economic leaps while California deepens in more-of-the-same.Their...

California deficit tops $16 billion

California’s budget deficit is higher than expected. Up from $9.1 billion in January to $16 billion to date, the shortfall is blamed on tax revenues lower than presumed and the sluggish economy.No surprise should come to...

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson resigns

Scott Thompson resigned as CEO of Yahoo after his board of directors caught him in a lie about his college degree, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The Sunnyvale, California, company is ailing from within to add...

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson college degree controversy continues

Scott Thompson’s college degree seems to have been misstated by somebody other than the Yahoo CEO himself. A Reuters report has Thompson denying that he ever provided a resume or incorrect personal information to Yahoo.Thompson suggested...

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson lies about college degree

Yahoo’s Scott Thompson has been caught misstating his credentials. The Sunnyvale, California, CEO expanded the facts. His Stonehill College degree major is the matter at issue. Third Point, a 5.8% shareholder in Yahoo, challenged...

HUD releases March 2012 new home sales

New home sales numbered 328,000 for the month of March, according to a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development report. This is 7.1% down from the previous month and up 7.5% from March last...

Aubrey McClendon, CEO Chesapeake Energy, speaks out on energy independence

In January this year, President Obama closed down the Keystone Pipeline Project. Among the many who reared on the President’s decision was Aubrey McClendon, CEO of Chesapeake Energy, a gas production company and participant...

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