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Forgive and Get Healthy

Luther College professor Loren Toussaint believes the simple act of forgiving just might save your life.

Patricia Woertz tried to turn the agricultural giant into a bioenergy company. It hasn’t panned out. What now?

Notes on selling a book idea from Columbia journalism professor Samuel Freedman.

Fear and loathing at the Chicago Journalism Town Hall.

With one month left before the 5th District Special Election to replace Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Elections wiki is full of info.

Chicagoist just put out one of its occasional calls for new writers. It seems they’re looking for people to write as much as four posts per week. The pay? $0.

Blitztwit

I’m officially twittering now. Will do my best to keep people updated w/o wasting time (mine or yours). I’ve been told it’s basically an impossible balance. You can follow me at blitztwit.

There’s no simple way to research political candidates in Chicago (or in most cities/states, for that matter). So, inspired by voter information guides in San Francisco, I’ve launched a little civics experiment. It’s called the Chicago Elections wiki. The first test of the site will focus on candidates in the Special Election for Rahm Emanuel’s [...]

Women CEOs

In their annual performance tracking analysis of female chief executives, USA Today highlights a stat that bears repeating no matter how many times you’ve heard or read it: Among CEOs of America’s 500 largest publicly traded companies, only 13 are women.

The Best of ’08 stories from Miller-McCune, where I’m a contributing editor, are up.