Rob Starbuck is one of the most pleasant and straightforward folks you’ll ever meet.   This morning was his last broadcast as the lo...

Ever since I ended my career as an itinerant musician decades ago, I’ve had a daily newspaper delivered to my home in every state an...

To me, the reason ESPN's draft coverage sucks is simple: ESPN decides the narrative in advance, plans its event coverage based o...

The title of this post was the campaign slogan of Eddie Ben Elson, one of the most colorful characters in Madison’s history.   He anno...

Several days ago I wrote a piece about how the nation’s top news-talk radio consultant, Holland Cooke, said the latest round of rat...

The guy in the picture above, Holland Cooke, is the number-one talk radio consultant in America. I knew about Holland for years befo...

On a late summer afternoon seven years ago, I was sitting on the edge of the big back deck at the Compound when my cell phone rang. ...