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Today is such a beautiful day you would think the sidewalks would be crowded with strollers, and people would flock into the cafe. While the weather is indeed in the low ’80s, producing near euphoria in our New England populace, we are slow up at the cafe…but that gives us […]

The Press Gazette in the UK ran a story about what it’s like for a British reporter to work in the Big Apple. Carey says her experience on publications such as Star magazine and the National Enquirer taught her that American journalism isn’t just Sex and the City’s Carrie trotting […]

Transurban Group, Australia’s second- biggest toll road owner, agreed to buy Virginia’s Pocahontas Parkway for $611 million, gaining its first U.S. highway. Bloomberg had the story on line. “The Melbourne-based Transurban bought the rights to manage, operate and maintain the 8.8 mile (14 kilometer) highway known as State Route 895 […]

The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, an anti-illegal immigration organization that patrols the border in Arizona, has refused another interview request by Al-Jazeera TV, calling it a “terrorist TV station.”Little Green Footballs had the story. “The Minutemen volunteers, many of them Vietnam, Korean and World War II veterans, said they would […]

“The first time it happened was in 2002. A friend saw a picture of former University of South Florida professor and alleged terrorism supporter Sami Al-Arian and did a double take because he thought it was me. He thought the resemblance was funny. I didn’t.” Bob Andelman, left, writes in […]

Interns are one of the best parts about GoNOMAD. We meet so many great young women from UMass who end up working with us as interns. We have had Sarah and Emily this spring they will be done in May. Emily is traveling to Mexico to do a story about […]

Karen Breslau, San Francisco Bureau Chief, Newsweek, spoke with Journalism Jobs about blogs and newsweeklies today. JournalismJobs.com: How does a weekly news magazine stay relevant in this up-to-the-minute news world? Karen Breslau: Just because people are pelted with information from morning until night, they haven’t lost the basic human hunger […]

Bernie is the Town Manager of Deerfield, and I popped into his office today when I was at Town Hall to pay my tax bill. He had some blockbuster news, among the many things he told me: ATKINS is coming to South Deerfield! This is major, major, we have always […]

During our long drive back from northern Vermont, we chose to ‘shun pike,’ or take the small roads that wind along the rivers, farm fields, and little towns. We stopped at Royalston, where there was a large town square, and a row of little shops and cafes. What a picture […]

 Last night we drove up to Barre Vermont for a very special night–it was the 50th anniversary dinner, long planned, of Maurice and Kitty Bigras. I thought I was going to speak, be called upon to read one of my famous speeches…but that moment never came. I wrote some notes, […]

We went to the Advocate’s Preview Massachusetts party, me all dolled up in a tie and Cindy in a very cute black dress. Her hair was curled and I had on a khaki suit I hadn’t worn in years. Remarkably, it fit me well, and the color was right for […]

Telecoms, like AT&T and Verizon, want to create a two-tiered Internet where customers and content providers can be charged for premium content delivery at higher speeds and quality than other content. The harshest critics believe that ability will give ISPs the ability to block, slow, or degrade content unfavorable to […]