Over the weekend I opened my local paper to find this headline in the top fold of the Metro section: "Probe targets gritty PR consultant" It seems that a local PR Consultant, T.J. Connolly, may have "illegally funneled campaign contributions through his wife, employees and other clients last spring to two candidates for Bexar Metropolitan Water District's board," a local utility that contracts with Connolly at about $10,000 a month. read more...

Texting Originally uploaded by amoraleda. Andy Carvin, a blogger on Learning Now, a PBS blog, named today Stop Cyberbullying Day - which judging by the response has been successful. All of this is in read more...

I have been a little bit sick for the past week, so I apologize for my lack of posting. But, I thought I would weigh in after my "break" with this piece of comedy. The legions of Stephen Colbert fans (Comedy Central) have weighed in to make the word “truthiness” the word of the year in Miriam Webster Dictionary’s online poll. 1. truthiness (noun) 1 : "truth that comes from the gut, not books" (Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," October 2005) 2 : "the quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, read more...