After 30 years as a corporate communications executive, Alan Markow retired in 2004 and started his own company, AM Communications.
After 30 years as a corporate communications executive, Alan Markow retired in 2004 and started his own company, AM Communications. While he handles a few clients for PR purposes, he has focused most of his time on free-lance writing, emphasizing issues about seniors. He spends his winters working part-time for a ski resort in North Lake Tahoe and skiing as often as he can.
Black Rock City, Nevada - I'm reporting from the fifth largest city in Nevada, although you won't find it on any AAA map or GPS setting. BRC, as it is often referred to by its 45 to 50,000 "citizens," is a community that could best be described as evanescent. Alive with activity for a single week in late summer, it disappears without a trace from its desert location right after Labor Day.
If Democrats lose seats as expected in this year's Senate and House elections, they will have earned it. And the blame lies squarely on the President's shoulders. Barack Obama came to office determined to be a new Lincoln. What I believe we needed was a new FDR.
The most striking aspect of the Boxer-Fiorina Senatorial campaign is how much ground both candidates are losing. According to Real Clear Politics, which summarizes all active polls, both candidates have experienced an oddly similar drop in support over the past month. Bo
Britain’s Liberal Democrats were distinctly a minority party during this year’s Parliamentary election. But Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg fired the imagination of dissatisfied and worried citizens, and upset the balance of power between the two major parties – Tory and Labor. No one ended up with a majority of seats in the House of Commons – the UK’s main legislative body. That pu
Let the name-calling commence! It didn’t take long for Barbara Boxer and Carly Fiorina to let the negative campaigning and onslaught of outrage begin. Brouhaha of the moment is over a debate opportunity proffered by KCRA TV, the Sacramento NBC affiliate. Fiorina’s campaign says Boxer has ignored the proposal and implies that her recent statement that she seeks all debating opp
For those individuals who see a heavy hand in every regulatory move by the U.S. government, here’s an example of the true sledge hammer approach to environmental management:
More than 20 percent of California’s registered voters are designated Hispanic or Latino. Based on recent voting history, the Barbara Boxer campaign expects to win two-thirds or more of these voters in November, and the Republican Party seems to be doing everything in its power to put this important voting block in the Democrats’ hands.
Every political season there are calls to “take back our country” … or our city … or our state. It’s the standard cry of the opposition. The Democrats were all about “taking back our government” in 2008, and Republicans are all about it in 2010.
