They are like coch roaches. You urge writers to prevent them. You tell editors to be alert and crush them. You spellcheck for them. You force people to read copy backwards in an effort to find the ones hidden in mental context. And still they crawl out of the copy.    Read More

And some of you have written in with a good suggestion ... doing a post about my TV hit that provides the actual features I highlight.   Read More

Putting a dilapidated house in a parade of beauty shots wasn't fair.   Read More

A common complaint about business journalism is that it tends to become insular ... I find talking to radio folks reminds me to break out of that funk.   Read More

A Manhattan judge has ruled that Google has to give up the identity of an anonymous blogger who called fashion model Liskula Cohen some nasty stuff.   Read More

Treasuries vs. Treasurys ... we get questions about this from time to time. The latest example was a missive to Jeff Cox, one of our more prolific staff writers.   Read More

We at the Web site now have a special feather in our intern-cap ... one of ours has been named "New Jersey's Top Intern."   Read More

We recently faced a little editorial conundrum here over GM ... not the type of call you'd have to make at a TV news broadcaster or newspaper. But as a result we're changing how we ticker GM stories.   Read More

We're glad people are interested, but we don't want to show too much of the innards in our Black Box for state rankings.   Read More

Our Web site has been spoofed. And it's a pretty good one.   Read More