Savings? What Savings?

It’s hard to make ends meet. But is it Great-Depression-like hard? Personal savings fell to its lowest level in 74 years in 2006 — negative 1 percent, according to a Commerce Department report. That means Americans spend 101 percent of ...

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Selling Out

Several months ago I downloaded the Kansas song “Dust in the Wind” to my new iPod. That 1980s spiritual anthem, with its nifty and meditative violin-based groove, always stopped and made me contemplate the status of the world. Yeah, it ...

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Survey Shows Superintendents Satisfied With Career

Would you do it over again? More than four in five superintendents would become superintendents again, according to a recent in-depth survey by Golfdom. On the flip side, 18 percent would choose a different career if they could. While that ...

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‘Right’ On

Golf course ‘correction’ could bode well for the industry, according to our special report Remember when the stock market underwent a correction a few years ago? Well, if you glance at the market closings in the business section of today’s ...

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Work Like Hell

Long-serving U.S. Congresspersons were asked for advice they would give new members in a story by Andrea Seabrook on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” last week. I figured words of wisdom from legislators could very well have some applicability to ...

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What Do You Think of Global Warming?

Right now, as I write this, people in Golfdom’s downtown Cleveland office building are looking out the window and marveling mournfully about the snow falling. Yes, I said “marveling mournfully.” People can’t believe it’s snowing, and they’re downright troubled that ...

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