
What's Your Price? The Real Cost of Summer Travel
Summer travel does not cost what the sticker says. Inside the fuel-to-airfare pass-through, the fee stack, the budget-carrier effect, and where the value still exists.

Summer travel does not cost what the sticker says. Inside the fuel-to-airfare pass-through, the fee stack, the budget-carrier effect, and where the value still exists.

Yesterday the ACM Awards at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas was the scene for a pretty serious glamor faceoff between any number of Country and Music celebs. Julianne Hough though, seems to have eclipsed all other stars where being a bombshell is concerned. Wearing a Randi Rahm backless dress, Isharya jewels, VBH clutch, and Brian Atwood high heels, the 22 year old actress singer stole the show.

Founded 1992 by Dan and Claire Marino after their son Michael's autism diagnosis. $87.5M raised, 94¢/dollar to programs, Charity Navigator 4-star. The defining reference on the Dan Marino Foundation, the Marino Campus, and VI|ready virtual-reality job-interview training.

From Fukushima defense to the U.S. nuclear renaissance. AI data centers, SMRs, Three Mile Island restart, Westinghouse return. The 2026 playbook.

Valentine's Day is a $25B US consumer holiday. The brands that win — Hershey's, Tiffany, 1-800-Flowers, Pandora, Edible Arrangements, Godiva, Hallmark.

The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded January 28, 1986. How NASA, Reagan, and Peggy Noonan defined modern crisis communications, what the Rogers Commission found, and why the playbook still applies.

Steve Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976, was ousted in 1985, returned via NeXT in 1996, died October 5, 2011. The operating doctrine he built outlived him by 15 years and is now passing through its second CEO succession.

The banking outage communications playbook — why banking outages are different from other tech outages (deposit base as confidence asset, social-media doubt cascade, regulator escalation), the hour-by-hour crisis playbook, and the canonical cases: BofA 2011, Robinhood 2021, CrowdStrike 2024, AT&T 2024, Chime/Galileo 2019. Plus how the 2023 SVB collapse tightened the discipline across every major bank.

The PR industry year-end runs on two parallel tracks — closing the current year and preparing the next. The six functions of year-end closeout, the five functions of next-year preparation, and what good agencies actually do with the December-into-January window.

The Minneapolis-based Olson PR agency continues their expansion through acquisition strategy with the addition of public relations shop Dig Communications after buying loyalty-marketing agency Denali in June. The deal signed in the summer of 2010 boosted the agency to become one of the Twin Cities' largest full-service agencies and one of the country's top 10 largest independents, and they are looking for new companies to acquire.