Humbly, my very first “official” job after graduate school in the mid-90s was working as a temp for a few weeks doing “clipping work.” What I mean by “clipping work” is that I was the on-staff clipping “service” for all things of interest to my employer. Full disclosure: I got paid (not terribly
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02/17/2010
I flew into New York City early yesterday afternoon and met with Marshall Eckblad, the national banking reporter for Dow Jones (owners of the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, SmartMoney, and others). And after getting his personal tour of the Dow Jones offices (including seeing the wall of Pulitzer
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02/10/2010
This probably comes as no surprise to you, but I'd like to share my thoughts on President Obama's first State of Union Address that was delivered just a little over a week ago. For the sake of time (both yours and mine), I'm going to restrict the majority of my comments to the President's remar
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02/08/2010
In case you missed it (and there's a good chance you did), I was on FOX Business News late Friday afternoon. I found out that I would be on FOX's Happy Hour show earlier that same day, while I was out of the office at a day-long meeting, so I didn't have much time to prepare. Anyway, without any
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02/01/2010