Front Porch Expressions

Our investment totals the past few months have been dropping fast, kind of like GM stock. We’ve lost roughly three times what we paid for our first house back in 1971. And I don’t think the bleeding of dollars from our retirement fund has ended. I don’t look forward to getting each month’s new statement. [...]

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Not too many businesses — media or otherwise — throw open their doors and tell their customers, “Come visit us. Meet our employees, and see where they work. Learn about our business, enjoy some food, help yourself to some freebies and register for a new TV and some other swell prizes.” But a community newspaper [...]

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They found J.K. Martin last Monday. He was unconscious at his home, and he died there. And I’m sad. J.K. Martin was a fellow broadcaster. Until earlier this year when he lost the job he’d held since since 1990 when new ownership took over, he had been the news director at some Burlington radio stations. [...]

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