Kevin Ellis
Penn State Indictment
I have now read the 23-page indictment around the child abuse charges at Penn State.
Lobbying and Communications Boot Camp
KSE Partners and Common Good Vermont are hosting a Lobbying and Communications “Bootcamp” on Nov. 15 at the Vermont Statehouse.
The Future of Journalism – Part 2
So now we learn that the Boston Red Sox of 2011 were a dysfunctional bunch that drank in the clubhouse during games, skipped workouts…
The Future of Journalism – Part 1
So everyone says newspapers are dead and that great journalism isn’t far behind.
And the winner is… Part Deux
In a post shortly after the primary and before the Democratic nominee for governor had been decided, we promised readers we’d use this blog to predict the outcome of the election for governor.
Media Matters
The media coverage of the Vermont gubernatorial campaign is driving me nuts. There is plenty of coverage, mostly on blogs.
Pop Quiz
With five Democrats and one Republican raising and spending more than a million during the recent gubernatorial primary campaign, how much did they spend on print advertising in Vermont’s leading weekly Seven Days?
Gay Politics and the Supreme Court
The day Elena Kagan was nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court, I told a colleague of rumors around Boston that she is gay.
A Different Take on the Supreme Court Ruling
It’s always great when an event throws the usual (and boring) left vs. right equation off its moorings.
U.S. Immigration Jails
Every once in a while, the New York Times produces a story so chilling that you not only read it to the end – you read it twice or three times. Nina Bernstein should get a prize for her lead story Sunday about U.S. treatment of the men and women who die in U.S. immigration [...]