Pete Ryan

Oct 3, 2024 | eastaurorany.com | Webdesk Advertiser |Pete Ryan

It was smack-dab in the middle of the third week of September, more specifically Wednesday the 18th. I was down yonder south of town a wee tad, enjoying a few moments of book talk & book swap with Robin and Chris, a.k.a. Bulldog, the proprietors of Bulldog’s Feed Company.

May 7, 2024 | eastaurorany.com | Webdesk Advertiser |Pete Ryan

All right, goodnight, bye-bye. That was Shirley Fritz with the report from the Buffalo Skating Club on the Niagara Invitational and boy it has been a smashing success at the Dann Memorial rink. It’s 16 until 11 o’clock. We have 39 degrees here on the Stan Barron show.

Apr 10, 2024 | chronicle.com | Pete Ryan

In a recent Chronicle Review essay (“Your Pay Is Terrible? You’re Not Alone.”), Kevin R. McClure took higher education’s shoddy compensation practices to task, calling out salaries that don’t keep up with inflation, inaccurate job descriptions, and pay inequalities across departments and institutions.

Apr 1, 2024 | mountainhomemag.com | Pete Ryan

One of the essential fishing stories is Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. It’s ostensibly about Santiago (as many fishing stories are, though, it’s about much more than fishing), the old fisherman who left his Cuban village in his little skiff to pursue and catch a large marlin and return to his village a hero. After days at sea, he finally “hooked up” with a big marlin of his dreams, which was so big it dragged poor Santiago’s boat around the Caribbean for days.

Mar 21, 2024 | chronicle.com | Kevin R. McClure |Pete Ryan

College employees have navigated a dizzying array of changes since the pandemic, but one thing has stayed largely the same: their paychecks. Poor compensation is a bedrock feature of working in higher education, as seemingly immovable and enduring as the main administration building. Although some institutions bumped salaries by modest amounts in a bid to attract and retain talent in the aftermath of the Great Resignation, pay for many employees remains astonishingly low.