If there's anyone who deserves more ink on these pages, it's Steve Bailey. His final business column for the Globe, in Friday's paper, is so excellent -- personal and witty, with a philosophical nugget (if not originally his own), and one of the best defenses of the newspaper industry that I've read in a long time: "Newspapers, in print and online, continue to provide our common language. After a lifetime spent in newsrooms, I believe this as much as I believe anything. Flawed though they are, newspapers are our town common, the place where we meet, learn about one another, and debate what is right and what is not. They amuse us, and they anger us. And to the extent that people opt out of that common conversation, we are the lesser for it."
I now have a reason to start reading Bloomberg News.
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