From 50,000 Feet

June 16th was “Anatomical Donor Appreciation Day” in the state of Maryland.  Our Dolan Media outlet in the state, The Daily Record, has a wonderful multimedia post on its blog, On The Record, with photos and audio of an annual burial service held for Marylanders who donated their bodies to science.  The interviews with the […]

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By a 62-38 margin, voters in Oklahoma City today approved a sales tax increase to pay for remodeling of the Ford Center, where city leaders hope the NBA’s Seattle Supersonics will move. The Journal Record has been all over this story, especially via its new blog, The Journal Record’s Hot Topic. Turnout, blogger […]

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Let’s take a look at what our company’s publications are writing about this week:
A Louisiana State Rep. wants the anniversaries of both Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita (the forgotten sequel) to become paid holidays for state workers, according to our Deon Roberts. Strikes me as highly ironic, given the poor performance of the state government […]

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Shorter, faster posts.
I’ve been on a medical and travel-required break, so apologies to anyone missing the flow of content.
Oh, I’ll write longer stuff once in awhile.  I’ll still post pictures.
But what this world needs now is a blogger who does more with less.    If not me, who?

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Here’s a roundup of some of our recent stories…
Wisconsin Law Journal blogger Anne Reed supplements her blogging fortune working as a jury consultant. She came across a consumer-research study, cited in an article about losing weight, to come up with a tactic to keep jurors engaged in a complex case without repeating the same […]

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Oil is not the only commodity getting an historic high price this year. According to the Journal Record, wheat prices have broken $10 per bushel, up from $3 a year ago due to high worldwide demand and bad weather in some wheat-growing places like Argentina and Australia.
So here come the wheat rustlers, writes Brian […]

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You might think you’re entitled to 50 percent of marital community property if your divorce. Not always. Not if you’re a really bad husband. From The VLW Blog:
After Carey and Dean Roberts’ 24-year marriage ended, Accomack County Circuit Judge Glen Tyler awarded the wife 95 percent of the marital property. The Court […]

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Let’s check in on some of the stories being told on the Dolan Media network at the turn of the year….
LIBizBlog, affiliated with the Long Island Business News, posts about a lunch-bucket economic indicator: Share prices of convenience food companies. A Deutsche Bank analyst says “weather issues and consumer pressures” will add up […]

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Before you break out your favorite Christmas movies, here’s a delectable selection of news morsels from around Dolan Media….
Shell Oil Company wants to extract oil from the Green River Formation, which contains one of the largest oil shale deposits in the world. According to the Colorado Springs Business Journal’s Amy Gillentine, the government’s […]

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Things are looking up in frozen Oklahoma — if you’re in the tree removal and replacement business, according to Kirby Lee Davis in The Journal Record.
“If you’re in the tree removal business you’re going to have a bonanza,” added Gary Trennepohl, a professor of finance and the president of Oklahoma State University’s Tulsa campus. “In […]

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