Airports are the Achilles’ Heel of the shutdown. No. of no-show airport security screeners soars in shutdown (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/a50e00cb683b4b…

Engagement and audience mean nothing in journalism without the measuring stick of revenue.

The Kansas City Chiefs -my team - are young and will get better. They will be back, because they’ve got the two essentials- quarterback and coach. For now, Go Rams!

IRS will need at least a year to recover from government shutdown, watchdog tells Congress washingtonpost.com/business/2019/…

Germany to close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants, will rely primarily on renewable energy - Los Angeles Times latimes.com/world/europe/l…

More signs that India’s real jobs data are so bad that — if made public — they could spoil Narendra Modi’s re-election hopes

Best message from the Super Bowl.

Warren Buffett had some good advice for my students last weekend in Omaha at the annual meeting: The most valuable two things in the world are love and time. You can never get enough of either one.

Awaiting the McClatchy earnings call on Thursday morning. Stock has dropped from $8 to below $3 in recent months. Hoping there’s significant and positive news.

Reading “Destiny of the Republic” by Candace Millard about the life and death of President James Garfield. I’m astounded by how Garfield’s doctors rejected cutting-edge science, which would have saved his life. It’s a lesson for the ages.

One of the great stories of WW2 is the engineering genius that went into the DDay invasion. My father, who was a Naval engineer, educated me in Normandy in summer 2017. I think of all of those brave men and women today. We stand on their shoulders.

Friends ask me if we’ve had any flooding here in Missouri. The entire state has issues. Walking trails are closed. Highways flooded, including major interstates. And we have rain predicted for five days this week. Below is the new roadblock on Highway K west of Columbia.

New Mizzou Alumni Jon Beltrano of Batavia, Illinois, and senior Sarai Vega of Kansas City, Kansas, awarded Kauffman Foundation fellowships to create brand #Journalism, content marketing at Missouri Business Alert, headquartered Mizzou. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade bit.ly/2HSj9Bb

Mizzou baseball makes history in MLB draft with two players selected before Round 2 kansascity.com/sports/college…

Congrats to Mizzou Alumni @TeriFinneman, MA '10, PhD '15, an assistant professor at KU J-School, who has won the Sweeney Award for her examination of pre-event coverage of the 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade bit.ly/2LnnWNP

Just purchased “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” by Heather Morris. It is a top Amazon seller but more importantly a reminder that we must never forget what happened - particularly in these challenging times.

Kansas City could have easily been the first of three mass shootings this weekend. On Friday night, a shooter fired random rounds into a crowded First Friday event downtown. One young woman was killed. My son and his wife were there hours earlier. This must stop.

.Missouri Business Alert's latest Speaking Startup podcast features Jessica Baker, whose new business is goat yoga, and Mindy McCubbin, co-founder of Women's Investment Network for Entrepreneurs. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade #Entrepreneurship #StartUp missouribusinessalert.com/entrepreneurs/…

Such an important campaign!

Congratulations! Mizzou senior Ethan Brown @ebrown38 is the 2019 recipient of the The Kansas City Star $2,000 Jerry Heaster Scholarship in #Business #Journalism. #MissouriMethod #MizzouMade bit.ly/2qIiUT3