http://www.ksefocus.com Government Affairs and Strategic Communications Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:53:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have now read the 23-page indictment around the child abuse charges at Penn State. Indictment of Jerry Sandusky It is must reading for everyone. It is horrific – yes. Paterno should have been fired. So should his bosses. The University made the right move in firing the president. I think ... http://www.ksefocus.com/penn-state-indictment KSE Partners and Common Good Vermont are hosting a Lobbying and Communications "Boot Camp" on Nov. 15 at the Vermont Statehouse. The one-day, hands-on gathering is for anyone who wants to learn how government works, how to get the attention of decision-makers and how to get your message across in ... http://www.ksefocus.com/lobbying-and-communications-boot-camp So now we learn that the Boston Red Sox of 2011 were a dysfunctional bunch that drank in the clubhouse during games, skipped workouts, ignored their manager and complained about having to play doubleheaders. When do we learn this? AFTER the season! Boston Globe sportswriter Bob Hohler brings us a great ... http://www.ksefocus.com/futurepart2 The Future of Journalism - Part 1 So everyone says newspapers are dead and that great journalism isn't far behind. Papers in Seattle, Denver and elsewhere closed their doors. Everyone from the Burlington Free Press to the New York Times has laid off reporters and editors. Newspaper junkies (me) love nothing more than ... http://www.ksefocus.com/the-future-of-journalism-part-1 With the elections one week away, KSE partners handicap the Governors’ race. 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. Here we offer our prognostication. Like ... http://www.ksefocus.com/and-the-winner-is%e2%80%a6-part-deux The media coverage of the Vermont gubernatorial campaign is driving me nuts. There is plenty of coverage, mostly on blogs. But I can’t seem to get a fix on the race and am totally frustrated by the coverage. Chalk it up to an aging ex-print journalist (The Tennessean, Burlington Free ... http://www.ksefocus.com/media-matters 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? If you said zero, you are on to either campaign stupidity or a new dramatic trend in ... http://www.ksefocus.com/pop-quiz The day Elena Kagan was nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court, I told a colleague of rumors around Boston that she is gay. There followed one of those fascinating conversations where you are on new ground without the benefit of party conversations or cable blather. You are out there on ... http://www.ksefocus.com/gay-politics-and-the-supreme-court It’s always great when an event throws the usual (and boring) left vs. right equation off its moorings. Such is this week’s Supreme Court 5-4 decision in which the court said the government cannot restrict the ability of corporations and unions to spend money on elections. I have lots of liberal ... http://www.ksefocus.com/citizens 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 ... http://www.ksefocus.com/u-s-immigration-jails