by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 2, 2009 | Beacon Dispatch, Commentary, Featured
I don’t know that much about the Detroit Daily Press. No, scratch that, I know nothing at all about the Detroit Daily Press, so I have no idea why they failed after five days. What I do know is how difficult it was to start the Beacon Dispatch here in Beacon, NY...
by Jeffery Battersby | Apr 11, 2008 | Beacon Dispatch, Commentary, Writing
Rebroadcast from BeaconDispatch.com. I still remember the first good latte I got in Beacon. At the time there had been one or two places that had popped up on Main Street serving “European-style” coffee beverages on what was then a very young (or better...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jan 16, 2008 | Asides
Migration madness… I have just finished moving my site plus the Beacon Dispatch to a new hosting service. A rather arduous process, especially given the fact that I wasn’t able to really do any testing before I made the move. Fortunately, I appear to have...
by Jeffery Battersby | Oct 10, 2007 | Beacon Dispatch, Writing
Just in time for the political hi-jinx season, and after a brief hiatus, the Beacon Dispatch is back… on the web. We haven’t found a good way to get the paper back out in print, but the Dispatch is now redesigned and back on the web in a fashion...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 8, 2007 | Commentary, HousePosts
And therefore no promised update… I had every intention of delivering last week’s promised How We’re Living Now update, but a world of business got in the way of my better intentions. Writing deadlines, publication deadlines, and a nagging little...