If you’re into sports, entertainment, politics, the news — you encounter commentators all the time. Heck, even the spelling bee has commen...

An anonymous caller left me a message recently saying, “Hi Laura, I’m new to the podcast, have not started investing yet, and age 36. So, ...

This is a story about how a city got its curious name and what it means to be a namesake. The story begins in the late 1890s and takes place in rural ...

As we recently discussed in our tight writing segment in episode 940, it is important to have a strong BLUF (bottom line up front) in your writing and...

Some years ago I wrote a book called “The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing.” In it I tried to get at some of the element...