Once we were young men. Old men now, we dream of getting a car that in our youth may have escaped us. But that car has always been at the forefront of our masculine existence.

Many a hot, late summer afternoon and moon lipped night have been spent dreaming of a new car. When I was a lad, new cars were introduced in the fall. GTO, Impala, Corvette, and Mustang were constant companions in my dreams growing up. My two favorite dream subjects were the Ford Mustang and a cheerleader named Sandy Smith.

I worked hard, saved my money, but was never able to get the Mustang. I lost Sandy, too, probably because of little money and no Ford Mustang. Well, I don't know where Sandy is today, but for the last week a Ford Mustang has been sleeping in my garage.

Over 40 years have passed since high school, and in some ways my life didn't go quite like I had hoped.

Smart road funding still finds detours

Every spring, the orange-barrel rat maze is erected. The lanes and roads close down just in time to delay and frustrate drivers in the few pleasant driving months we get here. Come November, the barrels come down and the rock salt comes out.

Recent articles have revealed that our road infrastructure has neither a sufficient revenue stream nor an efficient allocation formula to meet the needs of a state we are trying to sell to new employers.

Ed Long from Canada writes: '..... r & d driving innovation ....'

Put it on the wall.

Everybody from General Motors to economists to politicians to academics have said the above. Innovation, high complexity manufacturing processes, and intellectual property are the future for any industry in Canada.

Pull up the article on cost break-down of an iPod, made in China. Over sixty percent of that cost is from other countries' contributions including a significant amount for intellectual property (design) from the U.S.

It is counter productive to protect future archaic jobs. Posted 29/02/08 at 10:34 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .

Sources: Motricity to Slash Workforce

The deal closed in January. The InfoSpace group is based in Washington.As part of the deal, billionaire Carl Ichan and other venture capital investors poured $185 million into Motricity. Motricity, which is privately held, has considered taking the company public, and the InfoSpace buy was seen as part of a growth strategy destined to make it more appealing to Wall Street.Ryan Wuerch, a co-founder of Motricity, remains the chairman and chief executive officer of the company, sources said. Steve Elfman, who had been executive vice president for the InfoSpace unit Motricity acquired, is Motricity’s president and chief operating officer. He at one time was chief information officer at AT&T. He is based in Bellevue.The combination of the two companies created one entity with more than 650 workers - and significant duplication, of effort.

After two-month odyssey, dog still looking for a home

BETHLEHEM — Cold, scrawny and scared, a white German shepherd wandered across at least three towns for at least six weeks before an intercommunity effort finally corralled him last week."What a story," said Morris Animal Control Officer Cynthia F. Brissett. "I couldn't understand what this dog was doing. Seemed to me he was trying to find someone, trying to find home. But no one had called me to report this dog missing."A Morris resident first called Brissett about the dog on the morning of Dec. 24. The dog was sniffing around the man's yard with tags dangling from a collar. But as many others would note over the next month-and-a-half, the moment anyone tried to approach the dog, it would run away.Brissett spotted the dog later that morning at White Flower Farm on Route 63, and another officer spotted a dog fitting its description at Black Rock State Park in Watertown on Dec.