The early presidential campaign season provides huge opportunities to insert issues into the national debate.

To my utter amazement I’ve been getting emails from folks asking if they’ve been dropped from our distribution lists and actually asking for our current thoughts.

The Hawthorn Group’s Director of Client Services, Henry A. Rubin, has been named Vice President, effective immediately.

While we’ll spend weeks pouring over who voted (and didn’t vote) on Tuesday, we’ve had several requests for a “simple, clear summary of what happened.”

‘Tis the day before the most expensive (and, possibly, most bitter) mid-term election in American history.

Addressing the Kansas City Chamber, Kansas City Power & Light and Hallmark Corporation on my measure of the midterms a week out.