More Content Moving to the Washington Times Communities

My Washington Times Communities columns are becoming increasingly active, and you can now read more of my material over there under both the Prudent Man and the Curtain Up! banners. My second (and older) column primarily offers news and reviews of music and theater performances primarily in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Meanwhile, the new Prudent Man column is meant to offer advice and insight for investors concerned with the influence of politics and macro-economics on their wobbly portfolios as well as nuts-and-bolts advice for stock and bond market newbies trying to catch a break in the most treacherous investing and business environment I, as a professional, have ever encountered.

It seems sensible to move most of my material over to the Washington Times tabs in the future. Although the flagship paper has had its troubles over the past two or so years, it's on firmer financial footing now. And, as a recognized brand, it's attracting far more readers to my material than I could ever hope to gain over here at HazZzmat. The amount of social networking you have to do to attract eyeballs to an independent blog these days is mind-numbing and I just don't have the time to do all my own PR here. The Times and its quasi-independent Communities area online are creating the synergy that an independent writer and commentator like myself desperately needs to get his (or her) message out to the public in an age where what's loosely called "social networking" seems to be where everything is going.

I'll continue to post here at HazZzmat, particularly on matters that require lengthy backgrounding that generally loses the interest of your average net surfer. But the whole idea of all three areas--Prudent Man, Curtain Up!, and HazZzmat--is to help readers gain insights on how the left continually interferes in disparate spheres to weaken and destroy the American way. Folks need to know what's going on before it's too late to do anything about it. We're trying to help.

Prudent Man: New Column in Washington Times Communities

Since budgetary and economic topics come up on HazZzmat more often these days, I've decided to remove most of my market and financial observations to my new column over at the Washington Times Communities, the site where a number of Times writers (and some new ones) migrated after that paper's severe downsizing about a year and a half ago.

The new column is called "The Prudent Man" and my initial entry explains why.

Today's offering is Part I of a two-part series on the very nearly criminally negligent IPO (Initial Public Offering) of LinkedIn stock to the general public--most of whom never had a chance to get a single share while the Big Boys got enough to buy several hotels on Boardwalk or, at the very least, a few tropical islands.

I'll be putting up one or two columns a week on the new site in what I hope is not a vain attempt to educate investors as to how the game is really played. And, if possible, to build a little pressure in Washington and in New York to stop the fleecing of small investors as well as the gradual erosion of the small businesses that still constitute the backbone of this country.

Meanwhile, readers in the DC metro area will continue to find my performing arts news and reviews in my Curtain Up! column, also at the Washington Times Communities.

Cleveland Orchestra's "Don Giovanni"

Since I'm back in town, I've just now posted my review of the Cleveland Orchestra's marvelous, recently-concluded production of Mozart's Don Giovanni. Check it out here in my column "Curtain Up!" in the Washington Times Communities online.

While your in the neighborhood, check out Politics, another area for which the Washington Times is justly famous. Good stuff here on both sides of the spectrum.