Love Your Library: Bestselling author asks ‘Where Will You Be In Five Years?’
Fairytale Friendship: Mini horse mourns the loss of her dog sister
Interview with Sally J. Pla, author of The Fire, the Water, and Maudie McGinn
Interview with Dare DeLano, author of Abilene
Interview with Sean Olsen, author of Beware the Cuddle Bear
Interview with Alena Dillon, author of My Body Is A Big Fat Temple
Interview with Paul Olsen, author of telecom expose
Local Nonprofit Tackles Hunger and Food Waste
Journalism
Sizing Up San Diego’s Nonprofit CEO Pay
San Diego Metropolitan, June 2004
It is a sensitive subject. Ask for a CEO’s salary and the answer is likely to be a cold stare. But in an era of financial scandals, calls for fiscal transparency are on the rise. Not only corporate CEOs, but also executives of tax-exempt nonprofits are finding themselves under scrutiny to prove their financial houses are in order.
Ansys Engineers Success
June 23, 2004
You gotta love a company with geek appeal. Unless you’re a rocket scientist, you may not have heard of Ansys (Nasdaq: ANSS), which sells engineering software used by the lofty likes of NASA.
UCSD’s Quiet New Cancer Czar
San Diego Metropolitan
November 2003
In his late 70s, William Kronenberg began feeling lousy. Exhausted and aching, he figured he had overdone it during his move to California from New York. It was 1987 and not an auspicious start to his retirement in Laguna Hills with his wife, Dorothy. Consultations with physicians at UCLA resulted in bad news. Kronenberg wasn’t just tired. He had hairy cell leukemia, a serious, sometimes deadly, but slow-moving form of blood cancer, so-named because of the fuzzy “hair” that surrounds affected white blood cells.
When a legendary local company is taken over
March 3, 2003
Daniel Levy has owned the Mail Boxes Etc. franchise on Highway 101 in Solana Beach for 14 years. He’s put blood, sweat and tears into building his business, he says, by delivering great customer service.
Wireless Technology Boosting Qualcomm
Investor’s Business Daily
October 16, 2002
Analysts give Qualcomm credit for having technology that trumps systems by rivals. My article details why the company is in the wireless cat-bird seat.
She Put Truth on the Front Line
Journalist Martha Gellhorn chased the news with honesty and bravery
Investor’s Business Daily
JUNE 19, 2002
It was 1944, and Martha Gellhorn’s goal was to sneak ashore during the bloody D-Day invasion of Normandy. But as a reporter and a woman, her chances of getting into the action were slim to none.
Fed Aims For Web ‘Transparency’
Investor’s Business Daily
November 29, 2001
When Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan speaks, people listen.
Unfortunately, if they watch him on TV broadcasts, they hear only about five seconds of a much longer speech. It’s tough to get a clear picture of his economic policy decisions that way.
Poet Emily Dickinson: Focus, Persistence And Determined Uniqueness Earned Her Literary Fame
Investor’s Business Daily, June 7, 2001
In 1862, Emily Dickinson tried, and failed, to write a poem about a hummingbird. She decided that the final piece was awkward, and put it aside. Eighteen years later, she returned to the poem, editing the original 20 lines down to eight.
In Search of a Multicultural Media
Office.com
January 1, 2001
It’s a deal that results in the disappearance of the second-largest African American-owned media company in the country. On November 3 Viacom Inc., the media giant that owns CBS, UPN and a smorgasbord of other media offerings, announced that it would purchase the privately held BET Holdings II Inc., including Black Entertainment Television, for $2.3 billion in stock.
Publishing’s Electronic Battlefield
January, 2001
When Newsbytes writer and editor Kevin Featherly coined the phrase “Napstered” to refer to the illegal sales of his articles online, he was joking. An avid user of the controversial music site where users can “share” copyrighted tunes over the Internet, he found it ironic when he discovered his own intellectual property for sale on Contentville.
Low on Profits, High on Attitude
Smart Business
November 2000
E*Trade’s irreverent advertisements portray it as the hippest place to invest online. But coolness might not equal cash.
“We’re so much more than a cheap trade.”
