As if you didn’t already know how either Democratic candidate – Hillary or Barack – will campaign against John McCain. McCain is the Republican candidate. If he wants any chance of winning this thing, he has to start now – before the Democratic candidate is chosen – in contrasting his record from President Bush’s.
He’ll more likely play the most successful GOP card in recent years, letting the Democrats implode.
What do you think her tax return looks like?
I could go all day with tax videos.
I don’t know what the message is exactly.. Interesting though.
I promote ridiculous attempts at Internet fame.
Barack Obama was back in Pennsylvania defending comments he made while in San Francisco over the weekend.
In case you missed this nonsense, check out a nice review of all the talking heads from Sunday morning’s political talk shows below.
Hat tip to Josh Marshall of TPM for the video.
For the next month, at least, I am a student journalist.
I have been a proud staffer at The Temple News serving the community of Temple University in Philadelphia for four years. While I have reported for the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Business Journal and elsewhere, there are few places I’ve learned more than in Room 243, the newsroom of The Temple News, and otherwise in my functions as a student journalist.
There are so many complications to it all.
Particular to working at a big university in a big city, I am inevitably competing with professional journalists, without seeming reactionary or amateurish. Competing with the very people whom I hope will want to hire me. At a school like Temple a great deal of our coverage is high profile enough to merit attention from the faces that make Philadelphia the fourth largest media market in the country.
Because of the power of the United States, everyone is interested in our electoral process. Fortunately, someone finally created an easy-to-follow description of the process for viewers around the world.
An interview transcribed last week for yesterday’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Name:
Joseph P. Campbell
Title: President and CEO
Company: Royal Bancshares of Pennsylvania Inc.
Education: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute, associoate’s degree, 1966; University of Florida BA and BS in corporate finance, law and secondary education, 1970
Career History: Royal Bancshares general manager of real estate division in Chester County (1970-1981); Royal Bancshares board of directors (1982-1991); Royal Bancshares managing director (1991-1999)
1. The bank has been owned largely by the Tabas family since 1980, when the name changed from Bank of King of Prussia to Royal Bank. How has that affected its development?
It was the smaller of two banks owned by two brothers… we were looking for a vehicle to get into the banking industry and wanted something that, as I like to say, already had the cash register ringing. We walked in the door and applied our management style to it. It was positive from day one… We gave it a larger regional scope, in moving branches from King of Prussia to Philadelphia. We wanted to make it a larger bank… we took our business model, our biggest asset that we knew what the other side thinks. We are not bankers by training, we came into it another way. We’ve stayed with what we knew, real estate, and grew in new ways.
2. You started as a bus boy at Tabas family hotel in Downingtown 40 years ago and became president and CEO. How has that experience affected your view of business today?
Dan Tabas was really my mentor, and there’s no greater ladder to success than having a great mentor… We’ve always looked at our business on a family basis. Every shareholder meeting I go to, I say… your employees are your greatest asset. Everything in life is a people business. Success or failure can be tied to how you treat people in business. The teller downstairs has a more important job than I do. I can be out of the office on a Wednesday… and no one would know. If that teller was out, she’d be missed.
3. Why did the company decide to add Royal Asian Bank in 2004? What has it brought to the company?
Continue reading Q&A with Joseph P. Campbell, CEO of Royal Bancshares
As filed last week for today’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal.
If only Stephanie Reyer could find a good dry cleaner.
The new director of exhibits at the National Constitution Center left a lifetime in New York and a career at the American Museum of Natural History in the city.
“I’m the new kid on the block again,” she said. “It’s both challenging and invigorating.”
She had a long tenure as the associate director of exhibition graphic design for the American Museum of Natural History during which it transitioned from a dusty after-thought to a first-date spot, but thought it a time to move on.
“After nine years, what we did was established,” she said. “You start looking for new adventures.”
So, she moved to Center City.
“The lifestyle here is fantastic, an amazingly walkable city, amazing beautiful,” she said. “It has everything New York does, on a scale that’s more human.”
She started Feb. 25, just enough time to get some homework done, part of her professional move from a science museum to one focused on American history.
“I’m doing a lot of reading,” she said. “I wish i had the way to keep it all in my head.”
As filed last week for tomorrow’s edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Bowlers just might be the real test of the economy.
Organizers of the 14th annual charity bowling tournament sponsored Remington & Vernick Engineers and Affiliates, a consulting agency in Haddonfield, N.J., were worried if they could top their total last year, roughly $69,000, with some fearing a sluggish U.S. economy.
Maybe things aren’t as bad as others think because last month’s event raised more than $80,000 to benefit the Mommy’s Light Lives On Fund, the Canuso Foundation, Sensory Playhouse, the Alicia Rose “Victorious” Foundation and the Little Rock Foundation.
“We were pleasantly surprised, with the way the economy has been,” said Chip Adamson, a senior associate at Remington & Vernick who also serves as its charity committee corporate liaison.
Since its establishment in 1990, the committee has raised more than $250,000. Bowlers paid $10 for two-and-a-half hours of bowling at Baker Lanes on Cuthbert Boulevard in Cherry Hill, N.J., which included live entertainment, shoe rental, food and drink, and trophies for the day’s top bowlers.
In 14 years, the bowling event has grown, from its first year when just $440 was raised to this year’s $80,000.
See other examples of my reporting here.
