Category: General / Opinion

This past January, the United States Department of Energy’s new standards regarding residential air conditioners became effective.  As a result, air conditioner products manufactured after this date will have to meet the new standards.  Among new standards is the increase of the Seasonal Energy Efficiency… Continue reading →

Some topics which we have previously discussed continue to evolve:   – – The New Barnes Museum.  After the protracted legal battle which ended in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Barnes Foundation could move its collection to a new museum to be erected on… Continue reading →

We have recently overhauled our Website, and one of the major additions is the availability of our Newsletter articles all the way back to the first issue in 1996.  Simply go to our homepage and click on the Newsletter – – voila! – – it… Continue reading →

In May of 1999 a 19-year-old Boston college student, Shawn Fanning, founded Napster, Inc., which, as many of you may know, operates a popular Internet site that allows personal computer users to download digitally recorded music for free in the MP3 format, a compression format… Continue reading →

By the time you read this it may be history, but at the moment of this writing the election has us all in anticipation (or bored stiff?), awaiting the outcome. In reflection, about the biggest surprise was not Al Gore’s selection of Joe Lieberman as… Continue reading →

There are innumerable occasions when advertising intrudes into our lives, from the commercial timed to interrupt the most suspenseful part of The X-Files to the billboard blocking our view of the countryside. On an entirely different level of intrusiveness are those ads that come over… Continue reading →

What seems like half a lifetime ago, I commented on the presidential campaign; and while, at the top, the tickets are about as anticipated, there have been a few curve balls. At this point the polls are indicating a very close race. On the Republican… Continue reading →

After a number of false starts (this has been a very complicated process!) the King of Prussia Inn will be on its way very shortly; barring complications, the move is scheduled to occur this summer, on Sunday, August 20th. At 6:00 a.m. on that date… Continue reading →

Several weeks ago we touched the subject of the presidential election, before much was clear. Now that Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Michigan, and Arizona have spoken, things are really muddled (delightfully so!). John McCain has proved to be a tenacious scrapper, much to the… Continue reading →

Not only is it a new year, but we also begin a new decade, a new century and a new millennium. What better opportunity to take stock of legal and financial matters and set meaningful goals going forward? Here is a list of seven recommendations… Continue reading →