Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

As many of you know, I'm about to be inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame. It's a great honor, and my one regre...

The other day, I saw yet another post on social media calling Joe Biden "senile," and saying he had dementia. I see this kind of s...

It was sometime in January 2008, and I was teaching at Emerson College in Boston. A couple of my Journalism students asked if they could ...

Geddy Lee's new book is finally coming out in November, I am told. I've been asked by several Rush fans if I'll be in it, and I...

I never met Eunice Randall. I wish I had, because she was the first female radio announcer in Massachusetts, and one of first in the United ...

According to all the local newspapers, as well as local TV & radio, this past Friday was a BIG day. It was the day when online sports be...

Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, I didn't learn much in my history classes about women. In fact, about the only women whose names were...