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New radio show puts entrepreneurs in ‘limelight’
I have always been curious about what makes entrepreneurs tick. What drives us to do what we do? What keeps us going when the odds are against us, even when our past is littered with unsatisfied...
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Toledo entrepreneurs turn work ethic into success
A lot of people hate to get up and go to work. Either they don’t like their job or feel they’re getting paid too little or both. I have always liked my jobs, except for one. When I was fifteen I got a...
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Lessons from moms and Muppets
During a recent Limelight America show, I talked with retired UT Professor Perry Johnson, who is finishing a new book about winners and losers. He e-mailed me after the show: “I’ve given many...
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We are the future
The late Billy Joe Smith was born and raised in Toledo. He attended UT and Marquette University majoring in broadcasting. After graduating he started Hobbs and Smith, an advertising and PR firm. Then...
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Limelight America: From Ohio to the Moon
Soon we will celebrate the 40th Anniversary of an event unlike any other in history. And there is a Toledo connection. Whether you lived on Stickney Avenue, Gracewood Road or in Point Place, the first...
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Ohio has visionaries
Many great ideas were born in Ohio. First gas station: Columbus 1912. First disposable diaper: Cincinnati 1962. First radio station: Toledo 1907. The beer can: Newark 1937. The cash register: Dayton...
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Henson led TV’s education revolution
On the evening of September 20, 1948, NBC launched its Midwest TV Network with a gala 3 hour program originating from KSD-TV in St. Louis. Toledo’s WSPD-TV (now WTVG) was part of this six-station...
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Giving Trees and paying it forward
Our radio show talks a lot about giving. Paying it forward like Kevin Spacey does in the movie of the same name. Toledo’s Lois Mitten Rosenberry gives a lot as you will hear on the show this week. I’m...
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Dream warriors
One of our most talked-about features on Limelight America radio is “The Dream Warriors”, inspiring mini-biographies about America’s business pioneers. Here’s a few stories from a recent show....
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Preserving the music of Johnny Knorr
Johnny Desmond, the great vocalist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, once told another Johnny, “You play that sax the way I like to hear it.” Johnny Knorr coined that compliment as his trademark, “The...
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Show to celebrate Bob Martz’s career
It was a small building with gray shingles sitting in the middle of a corn field in the South End. Under 1,000 square feet and not much bigger than the old Koral Hamburg on Detroit Avenue. The mailing...
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Veteranarian is the cat’s meow
I walked into my girlfriend’s kitchen and found her and her daughter and her daughter’s friend staring down into a cardboard box where a kitten the size of a tomato — an orphan it turned out — was...
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Success in all shapes
It’s never too late to be a success, or too early. Harland David Sanders, better known as Col. Sanders, was an American entrepreneur who founded Kentucky Fried Chicken. As a young man, Sanders was a...
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Honoring positive influences
Can you name the five wealthiest people in the world? Or the last three Heisman trophy winners? Or two Nobel Prize winners? Even though they’re the best in their fields, few of us remember the...
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Limelight America: Janis Weber amazes
Vicissitude: noun – a difficulty or hardship attendant on a way of life, a career, or a course of action and usually beyond one’s control When things went wrong my father used to say, “Just the...
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