Schneider National was an innovative, fast-growing company in the 1990s. It had surpassed much of its competition by embracing change and new technology. In 1993 the company formed a subsidiary, Schneider Logistics, to in effect sell its shipping expertise to clients. Large manufacturers were worki...
but intensely loyal following (among which I count myself). But on the rungs of fame, there are people who are even below “minor.” They are the people who live normal lives, who have regular jobs, but whose faces are in public from time to time. They aren’t “famous...
Sam Houston Jones was born July 15, 1897 in Merryville, LA. Obviously, right off the bat, his name reminds us of our local state park and high school in Moss Bluff. He served as the Assistant Parish Prosecutor in Lake Charles for nine years before winning the governor's race in 1940 ...
I have been reflecting on the future of a national association I belong to that has struggled with relevancy and with closing the distance between itself and its members, has distinct factions that differ on fundamental matters of values, faces declining national and chapter membership, needs to c...
And these conflicting messages are evident even before we look at the relationship between the national association and local societies (organized differently than ALA chapters but with the similar intent). If I could deduce the current priorities for ARS from its magazine, website, and email ...
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: ‘At the 1999 National Book Awards ceremony Oprah Winfrey told of calling Toni Morrison to say that she had had to puzzle over many of the latter's sentences. According to Oprah, Morrison's reply was "That, my dear, is called reading." Sorry, my dear Toni, but it's actually ...
As for pursuing Kaepernick for a second straight year as a potential backup QB to Wilson, Schneider said “we are in everything and we never close the door. We wouldn’t be doing our jobs if we closed the door on things and didn’t keep an open mind on everything.’’ ...
to the teat of the grant giving machine that is the National Endowment for the Arts, they are dumbed down by both government censures, as well as their own lack of knowledge of the art of writing by decades of promoting the noxious idea that anyone can be a writer, that everyone is cre...
DS: When I interviewed the National Book Award winning novelistCharles Johnson, he stated: What I love about [Rod] Serling, the prolific Ray Bradbury, the pulp writers of the ‘30s who pounded away at their typewriters for less than a penny a word until their fingers bled (an anecdote I...