Desmond Lachman -- Welcome to America, the World's Scariest Emerging Market (Washington Post)
Back in the spring of 1998, when Boris Yeltsin was still at Russia's helm, I led a group of global investors to Moscow to find out firsthand where the Russian economy was headed. My long career with the International Monetary Fund and on Wall Street had taken me to "emerging markets" throughout Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, and I thought I'd seen it all. Yet I still recall the shock I ...

Andra Bryan Stefanoni: KDOT: Kansas loses either way if bill doesn t pass (The Joplin Globe)
PITTSBURG, Kan. The seat-belt campaign in Kansas might be called Click It or Ticket, but a second campaign is brewing among Kansas Department of Transportation officials: Sign It or Lose It.