We work with the AARP in educating its membership about a wide range of topics, including this month’s article on how one California legislator is using her firsthand experience to help the millions who provide care to their aging loved ones. Please see it by clicking here.
Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown helps her husband, Hardy, with daily tasks. She is authoring legislation to help California caregivers.
How many times have heard or had to make that excuse for checking out while on a conference call? For conference call participants, this humorous look, via video, captures all the things we hate about conference calls – from the barking dog in the background to the cellphone participant who keeps dropping off and dialing…
Our friend, the Washington Post’s Paul Farhi, is one of the nation’s best media reporters. Today, he has a great story about the Post’s rival, the New York Times, hiring an intern who had been an Obama speech writer. Paul covers it in a very even-handed fashion. There was a time when such political affiliations…
By taking responsibility for the beheading of two American journalists, the radical group now identified as ISIS by most in the media has turned the name of an Egyptian goddess into a dirty word. Unfortunately, several companies also have the same name. CNBC’s Jane Wells tackled this topic in her report today. She reported that…
On this morning’s highly rated KTLA-TV newscast, the anchors spent a couple of minutes ridiculing the term Mayor Eric Garcetti used for his “Great Streets” program. He called it “urban acupuncture,” and that became the headline in the LA Times, rather than the “Great Streets” brand. Unfortunately for the mayor, the news anchors seemed to…
We want to share with you this recent posting by our colleague, Douglas Jeffe, and his wife, Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, on Joel Fox’s must-read political blog, Fox and Hounds, about the flaws of the residency law responsible for Senator Wright’s recent conviction.
This is the successful real estate investor’s mantra, and it also applies in many successful communications campaigns. We were in Oklahoma when the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in support of Hobby Lobby’s policy denying health insurance coverage for certain types of contraceptives on religious grounds. The response here – in the “buckle of…
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