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Kenan Samms

Obama Campaign Offers Substance on Work-Life Issues

It’s pledge week at Minnesota Public Radio, a time when often they’ll re-run snippets of recent great programming in between shameless begging for money. This morning Kerri Miller’s intellectually chewy daily talkfest ...READ»

The New Age of Media

There was speculation that Peter Jennings might return to the anchor chair after his struggle with cancer. He would have been the sole remnant of the "big three anchors" after Brokaw retired and Rather "retired". However, Jennings ...READ»

Good Calls and Bad Calls from Our First 10 Years

Here are the predictions we got right and others that turned out to be very wrong.READ»

Training to Work

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Kenan Samms
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Paperboys Have a Career Advantage, Says New Book

Jeffrey J. Fox, author of the new book "Rain: What a Paperboy Learned About Business," share some advice for job seekers in this brief interview.READ»

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Steal These Ideas

A letter from the founding editors.READ»

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Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard and Tom Brokaw Talk Green Marketing [video]

The founder of Patagonia explains why businesses giving back to the planet is green marketing.READ»

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Can Wal-Mart Be Sustainable? Ask Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard [video]

The founder of Patagonia explains why Wal-Mart is his biggest and unlikeliest ally.READ»

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Patagonia's Underwear: Designed for Exposure [video]

One day, Yvon Chouinard, the enterprising founder of Patagonia, told his product design team to free the company's underwear from wasteful plastic and cardboard packaging. His staff balked--he was told to expect failure. He pressed on with the changes anyhow, because it was the right thing to do.READ»

How Will You Fail?

In My Humble Opinion: Harriet Rubin on living dangerously.READ»

Web, White, and Blue

Will young people care about politics? Is America ready for online voting? Can the net save democracy? Those are the questions that beltway veteran Doug Bailey is asking.READ»

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Joe the Plumber Gets His Fifteen Minutes on the Tube and on the Web

John McCain’s “invisible friend,” as Keith Olbermann of MSNBC dubbed him after the debate, was the run away winner last night. I’m talking, of course, about “Joe the Plumber” (AKA Joe Wurzelbacher, an Ohio plumber). John ...READ»

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An Ocean Runs Through It

With Johnnies-come-lately crowding blue-ribbon trout streams, the new place to fish is the ocean. But where? Introducing the complete angler's guide to the best places to cast a saltwater fly.READ»