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Let’s #beatcancer

Posted in Personal, Twitter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I don’t engage in a lot of Twitter memes. But I gladly joined the #beatcancer meme today.
As a two-time cancer survivor (colon in 1999, basal cell in 2005), I know that cancer is not a sure death sentence. But I also visited my father three weeks before his death from prostate cancer in 1978 and visited [...]

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A tough month of cancer news

Posted in Personal, tagged , , , on July 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Thanks to all who have prayed and expressed concern and support for my nephew Patrick, whose battle against leukemia I wrote about in February and again in March after his bone-marrow transplant.
I wish I had an encouraging update, but tests this week confirmed that Patrick’s leukemia has relapsed. He and his parents are considering a range of [...]

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A publisher asks tough questions about C3 blueprint

Posted in Complete Community Connection, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Tough questions help test and sharpen any vision for innovation.
Marty Weybret, publisher of the Lodi (Calif.) News-Sentinel and LodiNews.com, asked some tough questions on Chuck Peters’ C3 blog about the Complete Community Connection concept Chuck and I have been promoting. “The Complete Community Connection vision that you and Steve Buttry have enunciated is intriguing,” Weybret started. [...]

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Personal news: Big news in small circles

Posted in Gazette, Innovation in the media, Journalism, Media issues, Personal, tagged , , , , , on February 21, 2009 | 18 Comments »

When I started in the newspaper business, “local news” often meant who was sick and who was visiting.
My first job as a journalist was at The Evening Sentinel, a daily newspaper of about 4,000 circulation in Shenandoah, Iowa, that went out of publication in the 1990s. I was a sports writer, covering the school teams [...]

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25 random things, but not a chain letter

Posted in Personal, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »

This week my boss, Gazette Co. CEO Chuck Peters, “tagged” me in a Facebook application called “25 Random Things.”
As closely as I work with Chuck, I learned some interesting things about him through the 25 facts he posted. I saw that I was supposed to post my own 25 random things, then tag Chuck [...]

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