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• Moving dirt, raising hope

  I've seen a lot of dirt pushed around in my nine years with Community Medical Centers, and in the years prior while covering health care for the Fresno Bee. But there was something electric on Jan. 14, when earth movers and levelers, a street sweeper Read More... Posted Monday, January 18, 2010 11:41 AM by jtaylor | 1 Comments Filed under: Fresno Bee, Community Medical Centers, Community Regional Medical Center, Terry's House

• Ticked off, a brief gripe list

  Is it me, or does the holiday season make the usual senseless deeds of mindless people even worse? You know, driving in the fog without lights; changing four lanes in one swoop sans turn signals; fritzing with a hairdo while driving with the knees; and Read More... Posted Monday, December 14, 2009 1:15 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Fresno Bee, Dan Walters, California Association of Public Hospitals, Community Medical Centers, California Department of Health Care Services

• The necktie chronicles

  Nobody really "owns" their possession. When it comes to tie clasps -- the gizmos a few of us still use to prevent our neck wear from dangling in the lasagna -- "mine" seem to take flight all the time. Went to Ireland in 1991 and bought two -- I call them Read More... Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 11:26 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Fresno Bee, Community Regional Medical Center, Clovis Community Medical Center, claddagh, connemara marble

• Trust the media?

  The blue T-shirt, purchased in DC in 1997, says in white headlines: "Trust me. I'm a reporter." I was a Fresno Bee reporter, subbing for several months for a colleague, walking, Metro-ing all over the Beltway, covering national politics. It was humid. Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:55 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Fresno Bee, Clovis Community Medical Center, Beltway, McClatchy Newspapers

• The language of insanity

  I came to California in 1981 and immediately fell in love with the still-blushing Proposition 13. Where else could you buy a $96,000 house and pay less taxes than on the $40,000 house you owned in Milwaukee? Alas, the romance has withered. From New York Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:46 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Fresno Bee, Sacramento Bee, New York Times, Donald Munro, Claim Jumper

• Edges of ice

  Shards of ice were still scattered in the midday sun after a furious April storm stunned Fresno and the Central Valley. You could mistake it for patches of snow. It riveted my attention during a week in which the Fresno Bee's front-page headline gave Read More... Posted Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:55 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Susan Anderson, Fresno Bee, Los Angeles Times, Fresno County Board of Supervisors, Community Medical Centers, Hospital Council of Northern and Central California, Lynne Ashbeck, hospital ERs, mentally ill, homeless

• Deuces wild in Vegas

  Four hundred deuces descended on Vegas. Four hundred PR types came to a Ragan social media conference. Deuce (media 2.0) is, for now, the current word-of-mouth method for social media -- forget newspapers, forget the 6 o'clock news ("your demographic Read More... Posted Sunday, March 15, 2009 3:24 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Fresno Bee, United Airlines, Web 2.0, Ragan Communications, Las Vegas

• Junk-food confessional

  Maybe it's because I caught some bug, or maybe because a couple of news items further down really bug me. But first, my junk-food confessional: As a young PR guy in New York, I once hawked vitamin-fortified potato chips. As an older PR guy in Milwaukee, Read More... Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 2:32 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Fresno Bee, UCLA Center of Health Policy Research, University of Manitoba