Send us a text I’m Gen X. Which means I didn’t grow up reading about history. I watched it happen live. On CNN. On Channel One. In classrooms where world events interrupted algebra, and cable news ran nonstop in the background of our lives. At the same time, I was learning journalism. The difference between fact and opinion. Why sources matter. Why a free press, trusted expertise, and respect for evidence are essential to a healthy democracy. Growing up in suburban Texas while listening to NW...
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Send us a text I’m Gen X. Which means I didn’t grow up reading about history. I watched it happen live. On CNN. On Channel One. In classrooms where world events interrupted algebra, and cable news ran nonstop in the background of our lives. At the same time, I was learning journalism. The difference between fact and opinion. Why sources matter. Why a free press, trusted expertise, and respect for evidence are essential to a healthy democracy. Growing up in suburban Texas while listening to NW...
Creative Accounting, White Collar Fraud, and Where To Hide the Money (Hypothetically)
Confessions of a Gen-X Mind
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Creative Accounting, White Collar Fraud, and Where To Hide the Money (Hypothetically)
Send us a text In this follow-up to My Uncle’s Mercedes and the Church of Creative Accounting, I take you deeper into the shadows of one family’s brush with the Savings and Loan scandal. This episode is not just about the crimes that sent my uncle to federal prison in the late 90s. It is about the quieter mystery that came after. When I was cleaning out my grandfather’s house, I found two matchbooks in an old travel box. One was from the Grand Cayman Hyatt and one was from the Hilton Internat...
Confessions of a Gen-X Mind
Send us a text I’m Gen X. Which means I didn’t grow up reading about history. I watched it happen live. On CNN. On Channel One. In classrooms where world events interrupted algebra, and cable news ran nonstop in the background of our lives. At the same time, I was learning journalism. The difference between fact and opinion. Why sources matter. Why a free press, trusted expertise, and respect for evidence are essential to a healthy democracy. Growing up in suburban Texas while listening to NW...
