Top Cars from 2011

Published in the December 15th edition of The Eastern Echo. With the Detroit Big Three in shambles and the global market on the verge of collapse because of the recession that started in 2009, the importance of automakers in America was in question.  Plants were closed and workers were laid off or fired.  Things did […]

Kindle Fire review: it’s not an iPad 2

This was published in the print edition Monday, December 13 edition of The Eastern Echo. Amazon’s Kindle Fire has been touted as an Apple iPad 2 competitor, if not killer, but the Fire is in a different camp of products.  Where the iPad 2 is focused on accomplishing a multitude of functions seamlessly, the Fire’s […]

Fox News viewers less informed study says

An interesting study has come out of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind Poll a few weeks ago that raises some suspicions. First, there were only 612 participants in the study. Of those 612 participants, only 34 percent considered themselves Republican or Republican leaning.  It seems fair to say that 208 people in the study who considered […]

Looking for a car?

This can be found in Thursday’s edition of the Eastern Echo, or here on their website. Finding the right used car can be difficult. Do you go for a GDI or TDI? Direct-injection or port-injection? Turbocharged or supercharged? Does knowing the difference even matter? For some the differences matter greatly, but when money is hard […]