OPINION: The law should default to organ donation

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Zach Mitcham
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Wednesday, September 14. 2016
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It’s painful to think of anyone watching their child suffer and deteriorate physically, needing an organ transplant to survive. Our front-page story about Mya Beth Turner is about exactly that. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: Surviving the ‘click-bait era’ of journalism

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Zach Mitcham
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Saturday, September 3. 2016
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The “click-bait era” is not the greatest of times for journalism. Pick up any journalistic trade magazine, which I often do, and you can count on numerous cheerleading articles aimed at lifting spirits of downtrodden journalists and offering publishers new ways of earning revenue online. The heavy rah-rah trade talk doesn’t lift my mood at all. I see what’s up with the industry as a whole. Who doesn’t? [Full Story »] 

OPINION: Insurance — you are truly Tony Soprano to me

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Zach Mitcham
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Sunday, August 28. 2016
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Insurance is near the top of my list of most aggravating words. You know how in movies, mobsters always shake down store owners for “protection?” The hapless owner must pay the mobster more and more or face his wrath. I feel like that with insurance. There is some big mobster out there promising to “protect me.” Oh yeah, thanks for the “protection.” And yet he continues to require more money and offer fewer of his tough guys to look out for my store. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: All those toy mountains

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Zach Mitcham
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Thursday, August 18. 2016
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If toys and candy could constitute a religion, then I was once a neighborhood evangelist, spreading the word, taking large offerings for my plate. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: Trump’s NATO comments trump all of his other statements

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Zach Mitcham
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Saturday, August 6. 2016
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In my eyes, the first obligation of any president is to keep us out of World War III. Basically, don’t blow us all up. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: What if there was a ‘Brexit for the Internet?’

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Zach Mitcham
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Saturday, July 30. 2016
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I told a 23-year-old recently that if there was a “Brexit for the Internet,” I would vote “leave” not “stay.” [Full Story »] 

OPINION: Which tribe are you in — life or death?

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Zach Mitcham
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Wednesday, July 20. 2016
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It seems like the country is in a type of tailspin, like there’s a fire and too many people throwing gasoline instead of water on the blaze. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: The language of marketing and the extinction of ‘small’

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Zach Mitcham
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Wednesday, July 13. 2016
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Marketers are masters at word play.

For instance, have you noticed how some businesses forgo the plain “sale” for the five-day “bonanza” or “extravaganza?” Does the zinging “za” at the end of those words somehow turn a dull, old “sale” into wild partying? Pass the Visa, Snoop. We gonna’ to do this bonanza up right, or what?
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OPINION: Brexit and the breakdown of old orders

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Zach Mitcham
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Saturday, July 9. 2016
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Brexit is the combination of “Britain” and “exit” — kind of like “Brangelina” for Brad and Angelina but with actual global importance. [Full Story »] 

OPINION: On smoking, cars and kids

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Zach Mitcham
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Friday, June 17. 2016
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If you’ve never been addicted to cigarettes, then you probably just view those little “cancer sticks” as disgusting. But it’s certainly not so simple if you’ve ever been hooked. [Full Story »] 
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