The housing crisis which began in 2008 had a lasting effect on the housing market, and prices and new home starts are only now beginning to ramp up. According to Realtor.com’s 2018 forecast, new home…
Organic and natural foods and household products are found today in most homes in America and around the world. Once merely labels and categories for fringe food fads, terms such as “organic,” “natural,” and “healthy”…
Something happened quietly over the long holiday weekend. Perhaps it wasn’t entirely quiet – at least not among the many social media supporters of author, former Salon editor and frequent news commentator Joan Walsh. Walsh…
Retailers and fashion designers targeting the youth market will broaden their horizons in 2018, with a greater focus on ecommerce and a departure from traditional children’s designs that have dominated the industry for decades. The…
The history of automobiles has been one of providing people with not just a means of transportation, but a means of independence and a certain type of lifestyle. They enabled the growth of suburban developments….
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. In a bizarre and almost surreal move lifted from the pages of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” the Trump administration has banned public officials from the…
In a recent episode of TDAmeritrade Network’s “Morning Trade Live,” China expert Tom Manning, independent director of Dun & Bradstreet and former CEO of Cerberus Asia, Indachin Limited, Capgemini Asia, and Ernst & Young Global…
2018 will see some exciting new fashion trends in footwear, with new fashions this year offering up an interesting and somewhat confusing mix of styles. On one hand, Fashion Week showed us a lot of…
Before getting in to what happened to the Montecito Wine Bistro, let’s be clear: This could have happened to anyone, and that’s why it’s worth talking about how fast scheduled tweets and Facebook posts can…
Hundred-and-fifty-year-old cannons and threadbare Confederate uniforms are a lot more exciting than they sound, and our recent trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania yielded up an exciting adventure filled with outstanding restaurants in historic buildings, a rare…