The newsobserver.com is running an article that seems to make fun of magic – and one of it’s foremost practitioners. Steve Beam is the director of the Raleigh Housing Authority, and if you are familiar with card magic, one of the leading writers/performers/lecturers in our craft.

I have met Steve a number of times, and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is highly competent in whatever he pursues – professionally or recreationally. I also thoroughly understand politics and the elected officials who give politics a good name. You do not hold a position the length of time Steve has held his unless you are capable of making a number of these ‘officials’ happy, year after year.     

 I would encourage you to read the article – and then comment, assuming you know Steve Beam, the quality of his work, or his standing as a business professional.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/12/21/3475311/disappearing-act.html