Through a combination of Internet surfing and a facile mind, this blogger has learned that the State of Illinois is now being governed by … the Heat Miser.
Local investigative TV reporter shows why he never made it in print
Andy Shaw was a good enough local TV news political reporter for so many years in Chicago that some of us media watchers idly wondered: Why wouldn't this guy want to work for a newspaper? But then he retired in January and, as with all TV news people, we all forgot about him immediately.
Now, Shaw has been named as the new head of the Better Government Association—in Chicago, a busy job indeed. And today Shaw trumpets his own appointment, on the Huffington Post. And he does so with a series of clichés so thick that his prose parodies itself:
Well, at least we don't have to waste any more spare energy wondering why Andy's print career never went anywhere.
Old business books: I read ’em so you don’t have to
I worry that Boots readers enjoy my series on Sharing Information with Employees and extrapolate that I am the most interesting man in the world.
Please understand that my life spent studying old business books isn't as glamorous as it must seem from the outside.
On Sunday night, for instance, I found myself watching LPGA golf and leafing through Business and the Man, one of 24 volumes on "Modern Business," published by the New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance, in 1919.
Here's what I got out of these 327 pages, beyond a sneezing fit from the dust:
The "jolly fat man" stereotype: You heard it here last.