Avoiding a “Hillary Clinton Problem” For the second time in six months, I’m working with a client whose AOL email account is intercepting my Edina Realty emails as unwanted spam. Result: my client has to hunt down my emails in his “junk email” folder — once I tell him to look there! Like many Realtors,...Read More
Making the Same Arguments, But Shuffling the Order [Editor’s Note: The views expressed here are solely those of Ross Kaplan, and do not represent Edina Realty, Berkshire Hathaway (“Berkshire”), or any other entity referenced. Edina Realty is a subsidiary of Berkshire.] Connoisseurs of legal strategies — specifically, the “it’s not my dog” defense — can be...Read More
Updating John-Paul Sartre’s “No Exit” “On eve of election, deep divide.” –Headline, Star Tribune (11/6/2016) Everywhere you look, assorted pundits and talking heads are lamenting how polarized the electorate has become, and how futile any attempts to unify it are. Not me. I know a surefire way to unite the country. Ready? Here goes: Jail BOTH Hillary...Read More
Dealing with Bullies. Or Not. [Editor’s Note: The views expressed here are solely those of Ross Kaplan, and do not represent Edina Realty, Berkshire Hathaway, or any other entity referenced.] I know, I know: hindsight is 20-20. And I generally don’t condone violence. But, imagine what would have happened if — in response to any...Read More
Judging Hillary By Her Friends “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.” –Franklin Delano Roosevelt [Editor’s Note: The views expressed here are solely those of Ross Kaplan, and do not represent Edina Realty, Berkshire Hathaway, or any other entity referenced.] No, you’re never going to read a headline officially announcing...Read More
Needed: a Law That Requires Presidential Candidates to Release Their Tax Returns “Until Donald Trump, every major-party presidential nominee since Richard Nixon has released his or her tax returns (except Gerald Ford, who released a summary in 1976). The simple reason is that, on at least one subject, Nixon got it right: The American people...Read More
