As fictional organized crime boss Tony Soprano likes to say, “I’m in the waste management business. Everybody immediately assumes you’re mobbed up. It’s a stereotype, and it’s offensive.” Links between the garbage business and mob activity have been well founded, as exposed by Kenneth Prendergast in his history of Cleveland, Ohio, and more famously by Rick Cowan in his undercover sting operation in New York…
Joy S. Roberts
Joy Roberts built and sold a small software company and now consults wherever her academic interests in rhetoric are needed. She is chair of the Board of the Musagetes Foundation and a founder of the Eramosa Institute.