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We’re really looking forward to having you all in Minnesota this weekend for Steve’s memorial service. Below are details for the weekend. Please e-mail Mike at mwesleybuttry@gmail.com if you have any questions. Friday There has been a CHANGE in Friday evening’s plans. We ended up having too many people for bowling at Pinstripes (a good […]

The LSU Manship School of Mass Communication will also be holding a memorial service in honor of Steve at 4:30 Monday, April 3 at the Holliday Forum in the LSU Journalism Building.  Further details are in the link below. Buttry Memorial Service

We’d like to thank everyone again for the continuing love and support we’ve received since Steve’s passing.  This post is to remind and provide some more details for Steve’s memorial service, which will take place at 4pm, Saturday April 8, at the Earle Brown Heritage Center in Minneapolis, MN.  Directions to the venue are also […]

You’ve probably never heard of Clarice Phelps. If you were curious, you might enter her name into Google. And, if you had done so anytime between September of last year and February of this year, you would likely have found her Wikipedia entry. The nuclear scientist is thought to be the first African-American woman to help […]

Get ready for Amazon Prime 1-day shipping. At the company’s quarterly earnings call, CFO Brian Olsavsky disclosed that Amazon is working shorten its promised 2-day shipping on Amazon Prime to 1-day. “Our goal is to evolve the two-day free shipping program to a one-day free shipping program,” he said. It’s going to cost the company […]

Amazon just keeps on being Amazon. Over the last few years, the company has been on a roll in terms of scale–and this past quarter it certainly grew. Still, we may finally be seeing signs of growth fatigue. In its latest earnings report, the company disclosed that quarterly sales hit $59.7 billion, up from $51.04 […]