Press Clippings: Good Morning, it’s Monday, 12 March 2018 and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. It’s on: March Madness is here. Last night, the NCAA selected the teams to play for the men’s collegiate national basketball championship. Four teams were given Number One seeds: Virginia, Xavier, Kansas, and Villanova. Did your team …
Monthly Archives: March 2018
The Nightshift: 11 March 2018
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Sunday, 11 March 2018 and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. China’s President Xi Jinping has reset the legislative and procedural table in China to allow him to stay in power indefinitely, i.e. for life. Not necessarily a good thing for a country that …
The Nightshift: 10 March 2018
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Saturday, 10 March 2018 and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. U.S. wanna-be-pharmaceutical executive, Martin Shkreli, was sentenced yesterday to 7 years in prison for financial fraud for his management and initiative with a variety of drug companies and hedge funds. He received massive …
The Nightshift: 9 March 2018
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Friday, 9 March 2018 and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. Surprise! In a major diplomatic breakthrough, North Korea and the United States will meet to discuss easing the tensions between the two countries. Kim Jung Un of North Korea and President Donald Trump …
The Nightshift: 8 March 2018
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Thursday, 8 March 2018 and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. Stormy Warning. The media ramped up again yesterday to further inflame the scandal surrounding the President (Trump), his personal attorney(Cohen), and a porn star (Daniels). The center of the storm, President Trump, is …
A Short Course in the Luxury Automobile
Nightshift Sports: Embed from Getty Images Long before there was an Enzo Ferrari making expensive, high performance cars, there was Ettore Bugatti, making expensive high performance cars. The Bugatti was the most desirable automobile of its era (twenties/thirties) and was successful in all forms of racing. The cars were all custom made; Bugatti provided the …
Winter Olympics Photo Gallery: Women's Two Man Bobsled
Nightshift Sports: Embed from Getty Images Not quite ready to let the Winter Olympics go yet…..A selection of the finest sports photography from the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. All photos (c) 2018 and courtesy of GettyImages.com, who have the photographic history of the 20th and 21st century online and waiting. These images have not …
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The Nightshift: 7 March 2018
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Wednesday, 7 March 2018, and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. Gary Cohn, the President’s Chief Economic Advisor, has resigned. Mr. Cohn, a former Goldman Sachs executive, has been seriously and stridently opposed to President Trump’s planned tariffs on steel and aluminum; he refused …
The Winter Olympics Reader: Post Games Edition
Nightshift Sports: Embed from Getty Images A look at some of the best stories on and behind the scenes of the 2018 Games: How NBC Went Shifted from Covering the Super Bowl to Covering the Winter Olympics (CNN)) The Final Count: Who won What at the Winter Olympics The Technical Aspects of NBC’s Olympics Coverage …
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The Nightshift: 6 March 2018
Press Clippings: Embed from Getty Images Good Morning, it’s Tuesday, 6 March 2018, and this is the Morning Edition of The Nightshift. North Korea said that it would suspend nuclear testing and hold talks with South Korea (and the U.S.) in April. This is a massive breakthrough for the Korean peninsula. Sam Nunberg, a former …