Humor

Friday Funny: 3 Out Of 4 Words Mispelled on Highway Sign

A sign pointing southbound travelers onto Business Highway 51 in Rothschild and Schofield bears an incorrect spelling for every word except "exit."
14 August 2009 - 1:00pm
Wausau Daily Herald

Skills in Planning: Writing Content-Free Planning Documents

Tue, 05/26/2009 - 08:02

For many students graduate school is the time to learn how to write professional reports and memos. One of the skills many planning students seem eager to master is writing the content-free document. This kind of writing is a little tricky to do. Accordingly, in this last blog in my series on planning skills I provide tips on how to create sentences, paragraphs, and whole reports and PowerPoint presentations that convey the absolute minimum of important information.

Titles

Titles should never reveal the actual content of the report. This is the guideline I find easiest to follow myself.

In Planning Terms - Size Matters

Sat, 01/24/2009 - 11:26

Usually planners get involved in the allocation and details of creating both public and private spaces for groups of people engaged in a wide range of variety of activities.

Mr. City Rankings Answers Your Questions

Bert Sperling, who has earned recognition for his lists of "Best Places," responds to questions posed by the readers of the Freakonomics blog.
6 October 2008 - 11:00am
Freakonomics (Opinion) on The New York Times
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