Some of the work tonight on Waterway Drive in Amory to clear the train tracks after a derailment earlier in the day.

If you sell a product or a service that most people will need sooner-or-later and you suspect you’ve been sprinkling your ad budget, “a little bit here and a little bit there,” try spending 80% of your ad budget on a single mass media and the remaining 20% online. The choice of mass media is up to you, but it’s hard to go wrong with local broadcast radio or television newscasts. People rarely record the TV news on their DVRs. They watch it live. The same is true of live sporting events.

Roy H. Williams in his Monday Morning Memo on March 22, 2021

We lost her on March 11 because of her health, but she will never be forgotten. And she will always be loved.

Working at the start of the winter storm from the Monroe County bureau.

The idea of objectivity—I should make clear—it’s not neutrality, it’s not both-sides-ism, it’s not so-called balance. It’s never been that. That’s not the idea of objectivity. But once we do our reporting, once we do a rigorous job and we’re satisfied that we’ve done the job in an appropriate way, we’re supposed to tell people what we’ve actually found. Not pretend that we didn’t learn anything definitive. Not meet all sides equally if we know that they’re not equal. It’s none of that. It’s to tell people in an unflinching way what we have learned, what we have discovered.

Outgoing Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron in The New Yorker

One of her most celebrated confrontations occurred on the night of Jan. 20, 1973, Nixon’s second inauguration. Among the celebrities in Washington for the event was Frank Sinatra, who had become friendly with Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.

A year earlier, Ms. Cheshire had asked Sinatra, “Do you think your Mafia ties might prove embarrassing to the vice president?” When she ran into him again at a midnight breakfast at the Fairfax Hotel, it was clear that Sinatra had not forgotten.

“Get away from me, you scum,” he said, according to a Post story. “Go home and take a bath. Print that, Miss Cheshire. I don’t want to talk to you.”

With about 30 bystanders watching, Sinatra continued his tirade: “You’re nothing but a $2 broad, you know that,” he said, using an obscene epithet.

He pulled two $1 bills from his pocket and put them in Ms. Cheshire’s empty glass, saying, “Here’s $2, baby. That’s what you’re used to,” before getting in his limousine and disappearing into the night.

Ms. Cheshire took the glass home and put it on her mantelpiece. She threatened a defamation lawsuit, saying, “If Sinatra had attacked me as a reporter I would have taken it, but he attacked me as a woman.”

Agnew’s usually loquacious spokesman Vic Gold was momentarily at a loss for words, when asked to describe his dealings with Ms. Cheshire.

Finally, he said, “Maxine Cheshire has a carapace of an armadillo.”

Ms. Cheshire’s plan to preserve the Sinatra glass as a battlefield trophy was foiled, her son said, when one of her children took the $2.