Scoop City

Focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.   That’s the key to a long and happy career.  I learned that lesson in a small city, half way between St. Louis and Kansas City, where stories  seldom go untold.   Share...

Everglades Changing

Out here, the alligators look like they’re sighting down a gun barrel.  Survival goes to the swift.  But even the fastest cannot run from the pollution that seeps from sugarcane fields.  In south Florida over the years, the Federal Government drained...

Final Choice

Before hi-tech medicine, death was a member of the family, something families nearly always chose to have happen at home.  Today, 8 out of 10 Americans die in hospitals, surrounded by strangers.  Often alone in webs of wires and tubes.  Hospice care...

Animal Beauty Aids for People

Animal grooming products have become some of the hottest beauty aids for people.  A lot of folks who’d never been inside a feed store began using them.  90 % use horse products for themselves.  That pushed sales for “Main and Tail” from $500,000 to $30...

Desoto Hour

 Most of the time Georgia Tech’s Rambling Wreck radio sounds like a three car pile up.  Even among college stations, its programming is considered extreme.  But stuck between “Concussion Theater” and a show called “Tongue Bath” is the station’s longest...

Rosewood

There are few traces of Rosewood.  Graves hidden in the weeds of time.  A fist full of photographs.  Fading, like the memory of what happened in the north Florida woods.  The tragedy began after a White woman, Fanny Taylor, said she was beaten by a...