by Caroline Bouchard | Jan 15, 2021 | Jacob's Blog
I suspect that you have seen the drawing and blog post describing the difference between equity and equality. It’s a compelling image. Obviously, the shortest child, given equal access to view the baseball game will benefit rather little from such equality. Yesterday,...
by Caroline Bouchard | May 31, 2020 | Jacob's Blog
Well, it’s finally happened. Mr. HisTalk and I violently disagree. His note today includes: Re: journalistic style. Is it ‘health care’ or ‘healthcare?’” I use the rules of the “AP Stylebook” for journalists with few exceptions, but one of those is that I write...
by Caroline Bouchard | Apr 27, 2020 | Jacob's Blog
Prognosticators offer narratives of what the post-pandemic world will look like, and we see leaders invoke Rahm Emanuel (or was it Winston Churchill?) in their expressions of how they will “Gretzky” this. Here’s my take. None of this is particularly prescient, but...
by Caroline Bouchard | Feb 27, 2020 | Jacob's Blog
I’ve had a few conversations recently with elected state officials, and I’m reminded that speaking plain language always helps. Here goes: We all agree that fire stations are a good thing, right? And we agree that we don’t want them to be busy … So if the firefighters...
by Caroline Bouchard | Feb 2, 2020 | Jacob's Blog
.. and now for something completely different. For me, writing a blog isn’t about getting clicks, earning ad revenue (no ads here) or getting tweeted. I write here to share insight that may be helpful to others. I started writing this in 1999. Topics vary, but I don’t...
