PS In The News
This is an archive of all of our site's past entries in the PS In The News category. Click on a title to read the full entry.
Excuses excuses excuses
No ifs, ands or buts about it. Here’s the column that was printed in last month’s Nevada City Advocate called “There’s no more putting this one off“, now on their website.
Excerpt:
I do hereby proclaim February to be “No Excuse” month. “By what right?” you might ask. Well, none, really, but aren’t you tired of hearing [...]
Article in Nov. issue of the Nevada City Advocate
The November 2009 issue of the Nevada City Advocate came out last week.
As I’ve had some good response to my article this issue, and since it isn’t posted on their site yet, here is a pdf for download.
It’s about taking time to reflect on what success means to you and the speed at [...]
Aliens invade pizza parlor with help from local parakeet
Newspapers
Originally uploaded by Alex Barth
National Inquirer, look out, here I come! It’s time for yours truly to hit the press. Ok, well maybe not for the N.I. and I probably won’t write about parakeets.
Not that I have anything against parakeets, but I’ve no proof that they have secret alliances with alien life forms. And [...]
Civic duty makes the cut
For the archives, this is from the Nevada City City Council Meeting on April 8th. I spoke up on three different issues (on the third I asked them if they were glad that I didn’t come to more meetings =) they assured me that I was nice, smiley, and most welcome).
One of my comments [...]
2nd Place Speech Contest
After a major rewrite of the speech done for the TV meeting, I presented my speech for our club-level International contest. My 2nd place win got me a picture (that’s me on the right) on our news source Yubanet.com.
Am I withholding… ? I haven’t posted the video of the televised nor have I [...]
The upcoming announcement for last night’s show
Keeping current with news mentions, here’s the upcoming televised Toastmasters meeting (the one that happened last night and that I posted about here) TV show announcement on Yubanet.com
Project Simplify now a Chamber member
In the blossoming adventures of speaker-dom, I’m looking to raise awareness of my business in the local geographical area. Up to this point, I’ve solely relied on word of mouth (and the occasional newspaper articles) to spread the word.
This month I joined the Grass Valley/Nevada County Chamber of Commerce. I figure this ought to [...]


