The past several months have been trying for the $2 billion-a-year compounding pharmacy industry. First, it was a multi-state meningitis outbreak caused by contaminated steroid injections from the New England Compounding Center (NECC). The outbreak, due to unsanitary conditions at NECC, has sickened 730 people, killing more than 50 – and six months later, people continue to fall ill. Investigators examined foreign materials from unopened...

For many small businesses, the painfully slow recovery of the national economy has been difficult to navigate. The Christian Science Monitor reported earlier this year the recession that ended more than three years ago has been followed by the feeblest economic recovery since the Great Depression. The story also found that “since World War II, 10 U.S. recessions have been followed by a recovery that lasted at least three years. An...

In a recent interview with Politico, Steve Coll, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who authored a book examining ExxonMobil, might have said it best about the oil and gas industry and its growing public relations problem with hydraulic fracking. He said, “I think they are in denial about how hard the politics of this is going to prove to be over time.” Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency issued its first set of...

As many know, I love most any kind of fishing and I’m always looking forward to that next trip to the beach or lake. Growing up in Pensacola, Fla., fishing was as important as playing baseball, basketball and other sports; dare I say it was religion. That’s why last month I was very upset to learn that popular fishing guide and television host Jose Wejebe, 54, died in a single engine plane crash in Everglades City, Fla. Simply put;...

Today the National Football League (NFL) is scheduled to hear appeals from New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton, general manager Mickey Loomis and assistant head coach Joe Vitt for their roles in a bounty scandal. In case you missed it, the Saints operated a bounty program from 2009 to 2011 that awarded cash payments to players for knock-outs (worth $1,500) and cart-offs (worth $1,000) – plays that resulted in opposing players being...