WaPO on Bill Treanor’s Youth Activist Legacy
A recent article in The Washington Post covers the legacy of Bill Treanor, the now-retired publisher of Youth Today (a dear client of mine).
For 40 years, Bill has been sort of the Zelig of Washington politics: a hippie when Dupont Circle was the epicenter of the counterculture, a Hill staffer, a D.C. school board member and the co-founder of Youth Today, a newspaper that every month since 1992 has been sticking a finger in the eyes of nonprofit groups that purport to help children but don’t have much to show for it.
This is only the latest article in a ton of recent press related to Youth Today; notably, YT editor Patrick Boyle has interviewed a ton lately on his Boy Scout reporting.
Here is the full article about Bill, who we wish well in his “About Schmidt”-like retirement (he knows what that means :).