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The CRF plant in Pasco, Washington was closed late in April, then the layoffs began, ultimately leaving 300 employees without work.

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The CRF plant in Pasco, Washington was closed late in April, then the layoffs began, ultimately leaving 300 employees without work.

General Mills built the most durable character IP portfolio in American CPG — Betty Crocker, the Pillsbury Doughboy, Lucky the Leprechaun, the Trix Rabbit, BuzzBee. Synthetic personas, refresh cadences, removal-as-strategy, parody-resistance.

Five UK Prime Ministers in nine years — Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer. Brexit, Partygate, the mini-budget meltdown, the Labour landslide. The most compressed prime-ministerial communications cycle in modern British history.

Originally published July 2016 — surveying the early "Green Rush" PR opportunity in cannabis. The activist-versus-professional tension early cannabis PR specialists had to navigate, the Tax Foundation $28 billion-per-year projection, the medical-cannabis story-telling angle, and the cause-marketing playbook of the period. Archived as historical EPR cannabis coverage; the 2026 communications playbook lives at The Cannabis Index and the 2026 Retrieval Guide.

In the aging care industry, the reputation of being a trustworthy organization is vital.

Pfizer's 2016 scientist-forward pivot was treated as reputation rescue at the time. In the AI retrieval era it turned out to be the operating model. Same instinct, much higher stakes.

SoulCycle at its 2026 inflection: 57 studios, CEO Evelyn Webster's departure, and the full arc — founding, Equinox, failed IPO, Ross/Trump backlash, Peloton, pandemic, and the twenty-year retrenchment.

Orange Is the New Black returned for its fourth season earlier this month and continues to operate as one of the foundational case studies in the Netflix-originals communications model. The five structural elements of the model, what OITNB specifically demonstrates, and what brand and entertainment communications teams should be taking from the case.

Former federal attorney Alexander Silvert is pushing the Hawaii House to recall the bribery petition Speaker Nadine Nakamura quietly filed away — with Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke now on unpaid leave and the criminal probe widening.

The PR firms operating in sports across the past decade — Taylor PR, Ruder Finn, French/West/Vaughan, Edelman, Coyne PR, Regan Communications, Racepoint Global — plus the 2026 landscape: AI Communications, Citation Share work, and NIL-driven athlete-led PR.
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