I started writing today for LearnVest, a personal finance website aimed at women. My first post was on odd side jobs. I hope to have a few stories a week on the website, so check my byline often.
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10 Worst Places to Live gains traction
Monday, August 9th, 2010
Plenty of website ranting about my WalletPop story on the 10 worst places to live:
NBC TV station in Columbus, Ohio, on Cleveland at No. 2 on list.
CNBC at least provided some good links back to original story.
Gawker story gets plenty of comments.
The Detroit News has a blurb about it.
Mlive.com, which owns newspapers in Michigan, is [...]
AOL Jobs website improved
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
The AOL Jobs website that I recently started writing for again, due to my hours being cut elsewhere, overhauled its look today. It looks great and makes it easier to find stories and job hunting resources on various topics, including unemployment and career issues, which I cover.
Author bios and new mugshots were also added, giving [...]
Ben Stein upset with my work
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
I wrote about Ben Stein’s unfair portrait of the unemployed and how he thinks they have poor work habits and poor personalities. He disagreed in an opinion piece at AOL News.
It turns out I’m not the only person who thought Stein went too far with his commentary dissing the unemployed as lazy. Media Matters for [...]
On the radio
Monday, July 19th, 2010
I was on the radio this morning on KURV 710 AM in South Texas to briefly talk about my WalletPop story on 10 products to always buy generic. I only got through half the list, but they’ll have me back on the air to discuss another WalletPop story I wrote about generics to not buy.
Listen [...]