Originally published April 16, 2007 CHICAGO // You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, and the wind is blowing hard in favor of action on climate change. The Bush administration now agrees that human activities are warming the planet, the Supreme Court says the Environmental Protection Agency has violated the law by not regulating auto emissions, and Democrats in Congress are demanding new measures to cut greenhouse gases. The Bush administration now agrees that human...

Even though Mackay was not quite ready to assume the top job, the directors did not want to entrust the nearly 100-year-old company to someone who hadn't spent his professional life hip-deep in corn flakes, Rice Krispies, and Froot Loops. White knight saviors with stellar records at other companies, once all the rage among boards that sought to shake up tired management teams, are becoming increasingly pass. There's a proven payoff to having an insider CEO: After studying shareholder...

With a little different faade, a white roof and some speakers on those mounds out front, that could've been a multi-use facility and continued to show movies. Pickle ran the drive-in (he managed the downtown Kraver Theater too, where "Hoppy" would shine his flashlight on you and tell you to keep your feet off the seats) It's said that when the Drudge Report picks up a really "hot" newspaper story the volume of hits to the newspaper's local Web site often overloads its servers. Couric was...

Sweet corn harvesting has been active on Oahu in recent days, with fields on the central plain especially making good progress from sunny weather. Semi-head lettuce, as Manoa lettuce is known in agribusiness, is also grown on Kauai, where new planting made good progress with favorable conditions. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of bizjournals. Insect infestation and subsequent...

Previous occupants of the famous "Candy Desk" where Thomas now sits had large confectionary companies from their home states supply the sugar to share with colleagues. That allowed him for a decade to stock the desk with kisses from Hershey co. and other goodies from Pennsylvania-based companies, organized by the confectioners association. After he lost his re-election bid in November, Republican officials who had noticed Thomas's habit of regularly visiting the candy stash told him the...