Putawapi Chile. photo by Paul Shoul 

Columnist Neil Steinberg just lived through the ultimate publicity and personal nightmare: He got drunk, slapped his wife, and ended up in jail and in rehab. His Chicago Sun-times come-back column promised he’d pull no punches, sober or not. “Some readers expressed concern that sobriety will wreck my acerbic view […]

Edward Wasserman is Knight professor of journalism ethics at Washington and Lee University. He wrote a commentary in the Miami Herald today about the newspaper business and other doomed species. “The Internet does threaten some revenue franchises, especially classifieds. But it also offers a new way to reach audiences by […]

My smiling little grandson Nathan. 

Five years ago, Virginia Metcalf Merida, 51, won the Powerball jackpot lottery. She told the press after she won the $65.4 million prize that she was going to quit her job making corrogated boxes, and buy a house. Her husband, a forklift operator, wanted to quit too, and make a […]

It’s unusual in the history of disaster relief: today NY Times’ Stephanie Strom writes about the surplus facing the NGOs who raised more than $1.3 million after last December’s Tsunami. “From our point of view, this is like dying and going to heaven,” said Charles MacCormack, president of Save the […]

”People come in the door and can’t get a car loan and can’t get a cosigner,” Doucette said. ”What do I tell them, to go get a bus pass? We’re in a tough economy. People don’t have a lot of money. They need cars.” Doucette was explaining a new device […]