For the past two months, some of you may have noticed ads for companies such as cruise lines appearing on my site. That’s because in November, I signed a contract with my old employer USA TODAY to join their Travel Alliance. How does that work? According to the official release put out today: “This...

Today is the last day that I’ll walk through USA TODAY’s glass and marble lobby, itself a monument to flusher times. I’ve been laid off from my dream job, and I’m not going to lie. It sucks. I enjoyed almost everything about my immediate world there, from my globe-trotting reporters...

My story on the state of state fairs is up on the USA TODAY website (it’s in the print edition tomorrow). It was a fun piece to write – I’ve gone to the Minnesota State Fair more times than I can count and consumed all sorts of food on a stick – I still think the strangest was...