Pocket Notebook News Today

The clock has ticked past midnight and you have awoken, the final clouds of lavender haze dispersing to reveal scarred oak flooring beneath.

Usually, a newspaper provides its reporters with notebooks, but I’ve commenced a lifelong study of the oldest of old-school reporter’s tools, having used hundreds if not thousands of them during a 30-year career in the news business.

Jayne was 13 when her dad, ray, was killed, a police constable who died trying to stop a stolen car. i recall walking out, going... ..back upstairs... ..and just sitting, and then, parts of me then was... i started gathering bits of...his life, really. this is a few years old now. his old pocket notebook from 1976. ive got an old breathalyser, the old—style one with the bags that they used to blow in. this is all she has left of her dad. nanny had to cut his hair on the friday night, when he l...

Multiple investigations occurring at the same time. you dont want witnesses called for testimony by several agencies because they can give conflicting testimony. and that is snag a prosecutor would like to avoid specially if they have to explain that at trial. so i think the first step for any of these efforts is to make sure that these agencies and these organizations are not stepping all over each other. >> jim, comey wrote it down. does that mean something or nothing? >> it means everything. ...

School sales. >> i dont buy that, theyre notoing to drive to staples to pick up your-- >> if gas prices start going up, people change their behavior, but i will say back to school is mandatory spending for many parents and may be not the best gauge of the overall economy. >> what do you think, charles. >> i want to mention what charlie mentioned earlier, gdp report, consumer spending dropped dramatically and american savings-- >> maybe hes right about that. a telling, alarming-- >> and thats cou...