Witty, humorous, and even some serious articles written by one of the original purveyors of hixnews.com, the late "Buffalo" Bob Casale. Enjoy!


At birth, we boarded the train and met our parents. And we believe they will always travel on our side.
However, at some station, our parents will step down from the train, leaving us on this journey alone.
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In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. Within just a few years, their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. What happened to Kodak will happen in a lot of industries in the next 10 years and, most people won't see it coming. Did you think in 1998 that 3 years later you would never take pictures on film again?
Click here to continue reading September 2017: Volume 17 - Issue 12

A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston. and walked timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President's outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard & probably didn't even deserve to be in Cambridge.
Click here to continue reading August 2017: Volume 17 - Issue 11

My name is Mike Malloy and I'm a junior at NYU majoring in Journalism. I used to write a column each month for the Comet newspaper at Hicksville High School . It was a great 3 year experience and whetted my appetite at a possible career with a major newspaper.When I graduated high school in 1965, I had to make a decision about schooling or the military. I had been accepted at NYU, Bucknell and Penn State , all great colleges. Several weeks before our June graduation, 21,000 more troops were being sent to Vietnam . The public was kept in the dark about much of the goings on in both North and South Vietnam . This added manpower was, however, known to all. This relocation raised the level of combat troops in Vietnam to almost 200,000.
Click here to continue reading July 2017: Volume 17 - Issue 10

A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something.
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