Leadership

One of the blogs I read, SEObook.com, had a recent article based on a story by the Wall Street Journal that has a negative slant on bloggers in general. The writer, Joseph Rago, an assistant editorial features editor, states “bloggers, for their part, produce minimal reportage. Instead, they ride along with the MSM like remora […]

This morning Eliot Spitzer, our most recent attorney general, was sworn in as New York state’s 54th governor. He immediately signed five executive orders into law, basically establishing ethical guidelines for state workers and making the government more open to the public. That the new governor signed into law what was effectively one of the […]

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I was alerted to something one of our local politicians said in a story in the Syracuse Post Standard by reading the blog of a new friend of mine, Josh Shear. Like Josh, I can’t believe a politician has the nerve to blame the voters for his poor performance, and I believe he should just […]

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The lead article in today’s Washington Post discusses how President Bush is looking for advice on taking a new course of action in Iraq. He’s talking to various politicians, committees, and military analysts, as he’s finally acknowledging that the policy the United States had in Iraq hasn’t worked. This isn’t a political commentary, but it […]

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I have read many things that say when we’re close to having a vacation we work twice as hard in trying to clear our desks off and finish all work so that, when we get back, we won’t have a mountain of work to try to catch up on. I’ve been thinking about that lately […]