‘Cash for Clunkers’ cheated some who really needed it

I’ve heard enough about the “Cash for Clunkers” law to give it a “C-minus.”The only reason it did not fail completely on the report card was because some consumers and companies used it to trade in a real clunker in the name of efficiency.In this economy, who could blame someone for trading in a 1999 Jeep with 150,000 miles on it for the $4,500 rebate.This law gets a C-minus because of what

Homo multitaskus?

Distracted driving – is this evolution in action, leading eventually to a new kind of human being, maybe called homo multitaskus? In the long run, will distracted driving become the norm?Faced with a seemingly unending series of wrecks and fatalities involving motorists, truckers, bus drivers and train operators who were distracted by texting or talking on a cell phone, the U.S. Department of

A rose to the National Enquirer

In late July, a story about an OOIDA member shared headlines with Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Paula Abdul and other celebrities.I got a tip from a friend in the know that the Goodyear Highway Hero and our OOIDA member Jorge Orozco Sanchez might be featured in the July 20 edition of the National Enquirer. I picked up a copy while cruising my grocery store and flipped through. There it was on