I don’t know whether to laugh or cry after reading this story on Think Progress.

(He went anyway.)

Former St. Louis man makes good.

With apologies to Jerry Berger:

Former St. Louisan and Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. topper Ed Whitacre has been named chairman of the board of the “new” General Motors.

For those who don’t remember Southwestern Bell, it once a…

As a presidential candidate in 2007, Barack Obama and his daughter Sasha drove a car not much smaller than the Chevy Spark. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

In Detroit, they call them “car guys,” the people with gasoline in their veins who love automobiles…

With Americans wary of bailouts and unemployment nearing 9 percent, now may not be the best time to announce more off-shoring.

That’s what GM may be about to do.

With taxpayer money in its back pocket and facing a June 1 deadline…

4/26/2007–A Dodge Ram pickup has bumpers attached and wired as it makes its way down the line at the DaimlerChrysler North Assembly Center. Post-Dispatch file photo

President Barack Obama’s financial recovery plans have been derided by the Republican leadership and some…

GM's 1959 Caddy: Glory days.

America’s Big Three automakers sell (or lately, don’t sell) 15 different brands of vehicles, including 112 different car and truck models at more than 13,000 dealerships throughout the United States. All of these numbers are problematic and…

The Chrysler Fenton plant

The federal government may subsidize the merger of General Motors and Chrysler soon in the hope that combining these corporate clunkers might keep them out of the junkyard of bankruptcy.

Given the stakes — 315,000 jobs and benefits for…

The federal government, already pumping cheap money into the banking industry to prevent a credit collapse and poised to recapitalize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by as much as $50 billion to get mortgages flowing, is about to be tapped…

I’m in Dayton, Ohio, this evening — where for more than six years and until April I wrote for the editorial page of the Dayton Daily News. My kids are just finishing up school, readying their move to St. Louis…