In 2008, it’s likely we’ll be voting on us.

Posted on November 30, 2007 - Filed Under Politics, Society | 3 Comments

It’s a bit less than a year to the 2008 presidential election. Anything can happen. As proof of that statement, anybody you asked on January 1, 2007 would have said that the Iraq war will be the dominant issue in November 2008. Ask that question today. Maybe not so much. At least for now, the [...]

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What if the music on your FM radio goes away?

Posted on November 16, 2007 - Filed Under Radio & Records | 5 Comments

Pardon me for taking you backstage but I’m doing it for a reason. The radio industry and the record industry were born at the same time and nurtured in adjacent cribs. Being the siblings that they were, many decades ago, when both were in their concurrent adolescence, an accommodation was reached. Radio was in need [...]

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Hillary: All the Clinton baggage without the likeability.

Posted on November 9, 2007 - Filed Under Politics | 5 Comments

Click here to listen to the “You Tell Me” segment broadcast on Newstalk 600 KTBB Friday, Nov. 9, 2007 This past week, for the first time, Hillary Clinton’s carefully controlled, highly scripted, enormously disciplined political mechanism hiccupped. At the Democratic presidential candidates debate in Philadelphia, Tim Russert asked her for her stand on the decision [...]

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Put the plastic away and raise your kids.

Posted on November 1, 2007 - Filed Under Children, Education, Society | 1 Comment

Click here to listen to the “You Tell Me” segment broadcast on Newstalk 600 KTBB Friday, Nov. 2, 2007 I have the good fortune to live in an affluent neighborhood. I also have the misfortune to live in an affluent neighborhood. I say misfortune because of the impact that affluence can have on some kids. [...]

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