MCC Chatter: Municipal Code Corporation's employee newsletter "Chatter" that I edited and wrote for in the late 1980s
My first professional editing job was at Municipal Code Corporation in Tallahassee, Florida. I was a Code Editor (legal codes) there 1986 through 1989. I was also the company's employee-newsletter editor. The newsletter was called the "Chatter" and it was a fun outlet for employees to write, rather than a typical company newsletter about company business. As a result, the newsletter featured everything from history to poetry to social commentary to literary advice to travel pieces.
Below are the complete newsletters that I produced as editor-in-chief. Farther down the page I have pulled out my individual articles and listed them separately as well.
Monthly Issues (full newsletter)
- 1988-March_Vol-2-No-11.pdf
- 1988-April_Vol-2-No-12.pdf
- 1988-May_Vol-3-No-1_annv.pdf
- 1988-June_Vol-3-No-2.pdf
- 1988-July_Vol-3-No-3.pdf
- 1988-August_Vol-3-No-4_gibson.pdf
- 1988-September_Vol-3-No-5.pdf
- 1988-October_Vol-3-No-6.pdf
- 1988-November_Vol-3-No-7.pdf
- 1988-December_Vol-3-No-8.pdf
- 1989-January_Vol-3-No-9.pdf
- 1989-February_Vol-3-No-10.pdf
- 1989-March_Vol-3-No-11.pdf
- 1989-April_Vol-3-No-12.pdf
My Individual Articles that Appeared in the Newsletter
- Lunch Break Etymology, from June 1987
- War and Words (The Norman Conquest and Vocabulary), from October 1987
- Working Minds (Staying Mentally Active), from November 1987
- The Conference Experience (Slice of Life at MCC Client Conferences), from December 1987
- Balancing Profit Motive and Quality/Integrity, from January 1988
- The Honored Guest (Founding Father Thomas Paine as "Guest" in the United States), from February 1988
- Sherlock Holmes' Science of Deduction, from May 1988
- Henry the V's "Education" and the Battle of Agincourt, from October 1988
- Julius Caesar and the Ides of March, from March 1988
- The Environmental Crisis—Creeping Degradation, from February 1989
- Muddy Elections—Campaigns degraded by attack ads and empty cliches, from November 1988
- What to Read over Christmas—Flaubert's Sentimental Education, from December 1988
- More Happy Reading, from Truman Capote to T. S. Eliot, from September 1988