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Does a new CEO really mean a new start for Ford?

By Kai Ryssdal, Robert Garrova, and Daisy Palacios

May 22, 2017

"We need to move faster with great clarity so that everybody understands where we're going, our employees, our investors, and the public" said Bill Ford, Ford's executive chairman. Above, a picture of Ford and former CEO Mark Fields. — William Thomas Cain/Getty Images

Mark Fields is out, but is new CEO Jim Hackett the answer to transforming Ford?

POSTED IN: Ford Mark Fields Jim Hackett auto industry self-driving cars business

Timber tariff cuts different ways in Canada, U.S.

By Nate Hegyi

May 22, 2017

A worker at Pine Profiles, Inc. in Creston, B.C., one of the many businesses affected by tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber. — Nate Hegyi

New timber tariffs could save mills in the U.S., but at the cost of jobs in Canada

POSTED IN: Economy business timber industry Canada timber trade free trade

Ford to fire CEO Mark Fields

By Marielle Segarra

May 22, 2017

Ford CEO Mark Fields speaks at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 22, 2017. — Michael Loccisano/Getty Images for Ford

Investors say the future-oriented CEO wasn't focusing enough on the present.

POSTED IN: Ford ceo investors firing companies Industry

General Mills sugary promotion comes as cereal is losing its charms

By Mitchell Hartman

May 22, 2017

POSTED IN: business Economy cereal cereal industry General Mills companies

PETA takes its fight to other animal entertainment

By Adriene Hill

May 19, 2017

PETA spends millions of dollars each year organizing grassroots campaigns against animal abuse. Above, activists protest Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. — FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/GettyImages

The campaign against Ringling Bros. is over. Now activists have more energy to take on Hollywood.

POSTED IN: activism movies animal abuse Circus Industry Entertainment PETA

Stadium chefs hope new food combos will hit home with fans. Brontosaurus Rib, anyone?

By Peggy Lowe

May 19, 2017

Aramark executive chef James Mehne shows off some of Kauffman Stadium's new food items, including truffled mac and cheese, lemon garlic rotisserie chicken and roasted Brussels sprouts. — Peggy Lowe/KCUR

They expect more publicity than sales of toasted grasshoppers or a patty melt on a funnel cake bun.

POSTED IN: baseball stadiums fast food menu business food industry

Infrastructure spending could be good news for the steel industry — if it ever happens

By Kai Ryssdal

May 18, 2017

"We better get started on infrastructure now or our grandchildren won't even begin to see it," Lisa Goldenberg says. — Tom Pennington/Getty Images

It's time to take away the 'distracting toys and get back to work,' says Lisa Goldenberg of the Delaware Steel Co.

POSTED IN: business Economy steel industry Pennsylvania Delaware Steel companies