Opinion

    It was quite fortuitous this past month when, even as I was looking for small businesses affected by baby boomer retirements, Roberta Jaynes called me.    Would I help her tell the public that she wants to sell her business and retire, she asked me.    Gladly, I replied.    Jaynes and I go way back, at…

    Up until 1862, college in America was reserved for the wealthy. Sons of the elites were schooled in the classics, law or medicine. If a poor boy wanted to attend college, the only means to do so was one of the military academies.    But that began to change during the Civil War when the…