Original anecdotes, commentary, rumination, and occasional pontification.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024 – Friday our good friend Sally texted to see if we’d like to join her and Camila and Claudio, an interesting and engaging couple from South African ex-pats now living in Portugal but visiting Minnesota in connection with the current World Press Institute fellowship program. Camila is a WPI alumna, fellow board …
JULY 21, 2024 – Most people aware of current events are familiar with the name, Evan Gershkovich, or more precisely, “Evan Gershkovich, reporter for The Wall Street Journal.” I am more familiar with the name because I’m more mindful of it; more attentive since Mr. Gershkovich is a fellow alumnus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, …
JUNE 2, 2024 – In ancient times I was involved in a case concerning a prominent piece of real estate in downtown St. Paul[1]. For years the matter consumed a plurality, sometimes a majority, of my billable hours at the firm. Other lawyers with the pertinent client relationship that predated my hiring had reeled the …
JULY 23, 2022 – Is “breaking news” making you crazy? Try consuming only “financial journalism.” First, if we were to follow only news reported by financial media—e.g. Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal—soon half the population would be snoring in la-la land. The calming effect on society would be transformative. Second, the remaining half …
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021 – With Afghanistan dominating headlines lately, when was the last mention of Iraq, Syria or . . . Myanmar? Thanks to the persistent, courageous journalism of one Emily Fishbein, I read and thought about Myanmar quite a lot late on Tuesday. That’s when I received Jeff O’s email containing a link to …
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 – Yesterday evening I attended the annual “dinner at the Algonquin” with this year’s class of the World Press Institute (“WPI”) fellowship program. Each year our organization brings journalists from around the world to the U.S. for a nine-week tour of media centers and other urban and rural corners of this sprawling …