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Yahoo’s new CEO

July 17, 2012

In a Wall Street Journal article, Is Yahoo’s New Female CEO Headed for the ‘Glass Cliff’?, Christopher Shea asks whether Marissa Mayer’s appointment  is a […]

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Personal political information: Opt-in or Opt-out?

June 9, 2012

Your political affiliation and voting history (when you voted; not HOW you voted) have gone “public.”

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Fact or fiction?

April 15, 2011

The greatest danger to the future of our democracy is that too many people are unable to differentiate between what is fact and what is […]

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Unemployment stats 2

January 19, 2011

I’d really like to upload the unemployment stats I promised in excel, but the following message still appears on the Bureau of Labor Statistics site […]

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A retail story fit to print….

January 16, 2011

Well… after I wrote last night about my frustration with news media reporting only part of a story, my local paper, The Oregonian, ran a […]

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Retail sales: Compared with what?

January 16, 2011

In an article yesterday on The Huffington Post, Abby Wendle reported that retail sales increased for the 6th straight month. This is good news, but […]

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Turnarounds and political appointments

January 6, 2009

I am watching with interest the controversy swirling around the proposed appointments of Leon Panetta and Sanjay Gupta. Although I do not have enough information […]

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