Meet Caroline Sumpter. She’s a founder of the Stillwater School in Arlington, but ended up with some free time on her hands when the school shut down this year because of funding issues.

Tenneco says it will be closing its plant in Cozad, eliminating about 500 jobs in the south-central Nebraska city by the end of next year.

Wisconsin has recently been treated to a Keystone Cops performance by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Union (IAM), which seems intent on putting its own members out of work. The story by now is familiar: employees of Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac voted down an offer to keep 800 jobs from moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Long ago I took out braggin’ rights on The Tremendous Trio, who are about to become the Fresh Fab Four, due to a merger between internet marketing giants.  One of those parties, SEO whiz kid, Paul Counts, has recently become a father again.