Stories from Saturday, May 21, 2005

United Airlines request to terminate its employees' pension plans was recently approved by a federal bankruptcy judge, which cleared the way for the largest corporate-pension default in American history. This also makes it possible for other financially strapped airlines to do the same thing and follows some of the biggest corporate defaults in American history, from Enron on down. ...

The final countdown for the session is upon us, as members of the Legislature adjourned at approximately 1 p.m. on the Eighty-second Day. With only eight days to go and a guarantee of additional late nights, a partial day at the end of the week was certainly welcomed.   ...

He doesn't know why it works. He just knows it does. It's not witchcraft. It's not black magic, or "the work of the devil." He does it with respect, out of respect for those who have gone on before him ... those who are lying in graves unmarked for one reason or another...