Author: christophgreen

The book of case studies that I wrote for the Kansas Leadership Center has been the focus of several stories in the Kansas news media. You can see them at the websites of The Dodge City Globe and The Lawrence Journal-World. You can learn more about the KLC case study initiative and the book of… Continue reading In the News …

In this day and age, it’s a lot tougher to judge what exactly constitutes journalism.  This post by New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen sets out some really though-provoking criteria to use in trying to determining journalistic legitimacy. It used to be that we conferred journalistic legitimacy based on professional orientation.  If you reported… Continue reading Legitimacy in Journalism

In recent months, I’ve been able to expand my writing about civic leadership by contributing blogs and newspaper columns about the subject through the Kansas Leadership Center. Please check out some of my pieces this fall and winter.  I’m particularly proud of the blog post about why I try not to use the word “leader.”… Continue reading What I’ve been writing …

Here’s a link to a story I recently completed for the Kansas Land Trust about Rod Moyer, a Flint Hills rancher.  He recently put his nearly 7,000-acre ranch under a conservation easement that will protect the scenic area from non-agricultural development.

I’ve watched a few minutes of World Cup soccer football in recent weeks but my viewing is likely to drop drastically as a result of the U.S.’s 2-1 loss to Ghana last Sunday.  Although soccer continues to grow in popularity here, it’s still a sport that a lot of people — including some of my… Continue reading Pop goes the kitsch!

It seems that barely literate spammers appear to be some of my biggest fans.  A selection of the pending comments I recently deleted … “I never thought I would agree with this opinion, but I’m starting to see things differently.” “The crisis is still hiting (sic) on american (sic) people!” “I am quite interesting (sic)… Continue reading The praise of spammers

While I’ve long been grateful for my MacBook’s assistance when it comes to writing, I never would have thought of writing a poem about it.

Remember “subprime” mortgages?  Those high-rate, variable interest home loans provided to borrowers with less than stellar credit? They played a significant role in blowing up the nation’s housing market, eventually helping plunge us into the worst financial crisis in nearly 80 years. A troubling report from the PBS investigative reporting show Frontline last night called… Continue reading “Subprime” college loans

Over the past year or two, I’ve become quite enamored with Josh Ritter, a singer-songwriter and guitarist who pens folk-infused tunes that straddle the alt-country and alt-rock genres.  His songs tend to be quite simple, structurally speaking, sometimes no more than three or four chord progression augmented by lush instrumentation.  He sings with an earthy voice… Continue reading Josh Ritter on “Feeding the Monster”

While viewing this New York Times photo slide show on English malapropisms in Shanghai.  The newspaper reports that for “the last two years, the Shanghai Commission for the Management of Language Use has been trying to clean up English-language signs and menus.” Your first instinct may be chuckle at descriptions of an ATM as a… Continue reading Please don’t make confused noise …