If there is a tipping point for the City's controversial practice of offering special event fee waivers - that is covering the costs of traffic control, police, trash, etc. for events held in the City, history may show that it was Tuesday when the Council approved over $3K in waivers for something.....

Yeah, I know, no layoffs are good. But today's layoffs at The State, including nine newsroom workers, included editorial page editor Brad Warthen. File this under "stupid." Warthen, love him or hate him -- and many people did both -- "got" the Web. He wasn't necessarily one of the first - the paper'...

We already know the recession sucks for journalists because—to generalize slightly—they have been laid off. But it sucks for working journalists, too. Guess who else got laid off: all their sources! Imagine, if you will, that you're a business reporter. You spent years schmoozing and hob...

    Garden Valley, California - Rose's Garden Cafe may need more than its signature Scottish shortbread to survive budget cutbacks to the region's largest employer: the local school district.     Employee layoffs, stalled school construction projects and fisca...

My seven-year-old son started playing in our town’s youth basketball league this year. I’m one of his coaches. Now, as any truthful observer of this kind of squad will admit, playing is a loose term. As the kids do their best to pass (we have a three-pass minimum), shoot and defend, ther...

In your blizzardy Monday media column: rumored layoffs at Men's Health , David Simon is righteously angry again, Ladies Home Journal's integrity—its most valuable asset, next to yarn—is questioned, and more! A tipster tells us that "Men's Health and Women's Health are merging advertising...

The L.A. media ranks continue to be winnowed. The Media News Group is turning long-time Daily News critic Bob Strauss into an entertainment editor, leaving colleague Sean Means in Salt Lake City (who is keeping track of the declining numbers of film critics) as one of the chain's surviving movie rev...

Sometimes the killer of relationships isn’t a lack of trust, a lack of communication or arguing with your significant other. It’s simple indifference. A relationship can survive most things if both people involved in it are committed to the other person and act with respect toward the ot...

Everyone probably knows by now that the Express-News staff suffered major layoffs yesterday. We pitched stories to them and their work often helped make us look good to our bosses and clients, so a bunch of PR professionals, led by Debi Pfitzenmaier and Michelle Autenreith Brown, wants to do somethi...

Not that the record industry's lobbying organization hasn't made life easier for itself thanks to a lot of boneheaded moves that seemed to accelerate the business' freefall, but I dunno, there's something about cackling over job losses that seems a bit unseemly to me. (Karma, etc.) But you might fee...