Entries Tagged as 'Your town'

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Dare to be boring

I’m a funny guy.
My sometimes-dry, sometimes-warped sense of humor has lit up the newsrooms where I’ve worked.
But not as a managing editor.
You’ll find out — as I did — humor is lot different coming out of your mouth as a reporter than out your mouth when you’re the boss.
As a boss, you’ll find that your […]

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Shooting the messenger

I once covered a tense zoning battle between a quarrying company that wanted to start a new quarry near several rural residential subdivisions and its future neighbors.
During testimony during one testy public hearing, one of the owners of the quarry company started denouncing me.
He said I had slanted my stories, referring to the dust from […]