Its Economics 101.  Put large factory in town, all those employees need a place to eat, shop, live, etc.  Big economic impact on that town. Ok, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, you name it, they all have large assembly factories in American towns, those employees have to do all of the above. Economics 201, executives of Ford, [...]

As you may know by now the Apple iPhone 4 has some issues with reception.  As you may also know Consumer Reports (finally) called them out. One more notable and respectable individual to call them out was Senator Charles (Chuck) Schumer D-NY. In his letter posted here on CNN : http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/15/schumer-pens-open-letter-to-steve-jobs/?fbid=bl2F9lh9NwA Senator Schumer states: “The [...]