I’m typing this in a Beijing hotel room. I’m here as a guest of NextUSA-EDU, a company that recruits overseas students to attend private high schools in the U.S. and then provides support services for them once they are here. I mean there, in the States.
Ten years ago, a little newspaper company, operated by the former editor of the New Hope Gazette and her businessman husband, started publishing in Central Bucks from a storefront on Route 202 in Lahaska. The Bucks County Herald, under publisher Joe Wingert and editor Bridget Wingert, launched on October 16, 2002, with a promise to […]
It was time for my youngest daughter to buy a car. She had some money saved, she was working 10 miles from home, and car-sharing with me gave us both too much to argue about. As usual, I kept my mouth shut – and let her begin her search for a solid but inexpensive second-hand […]
Let me admit a few things up front. First, I’ve been writing for the Fred Beans organization for a dozen years. Second, I am the farthest thing from a “car-head.” And third, my knowledge of the quality of the service and sensitivity of the sales staff at Fred Beans’s 13 dealerships has come from watching […]