Front Porch Expressions

 
The Clear Channel ax fell again yesterday, April 28, 2009. And I, along with some of my friends, got hit. I knew it was coming sooner or later. Of course, I would have preferred later. At age 60, five or six years later would have been great!
I’ve worked in commercial radio on a [...]

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As a working broadcast and newspaper journalist, I don’t believe I should be donating money to a political candidate or party that I might later be reporting on. And I shouldn’t be taking part in a protest for or against some issue I may be assigned to cover. That doesn’t look good for someone whose [...]

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Advice. Whether you want it or not, you receive tons of it when you go through life.
Much of it’s common sense. It comes from folks who learned things the hard way and want to save you from doing the same thing. They advise things like, “Don’t spit in the wind.”
Some advice is humorous. Mark Twain [...]

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Here some observations from all old reporter’s notebook:
* My wife Sherry and I recently took a trip during her spring break from teaching. We go somewhere new each year. We thought about not going at all this year because of the economy. Our investments and retirement accounts, like most other people’s, have taken a hit [...]

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