Reporting and Writing
Enterprise reporting from my beat:
Drugs in Dillsburg: Heroin Hits Home (11/10/09)
Annoying Council Curmudgeons or Civil Servants? (3/7/09)
I took an afternoon to listen to the local, small town council gadfly's gripes over 25 years in his town, and came up with a story that made the state wires, appearing in The Philadelphia Inquirer and USA Today.
Political Author's Story is one to watch (5/6/0)
An attempt to go beyond the party-line given by a young, local politician on a book tour.
A failing school for misfits or the makings of juvenile justice reform? (5/6/09)
I had a feeling there was more to a cops brief filed about student-on-teacher assault at a local school. My inquiries yielded this A1 story.
In Dillsburg, center opens for kids at "The Krux" (1/2/2010)
Deadline work:
Going for a ride in the OGO (7/2/09)
What happens when they call the bomb squad? (4/6/09)
Another inquiry after a cops story on my beat yielded this one.
At a job fair, a sense of hope (3/23/09)
At a job fair, six months later (9/22/09)
Graduation 2009: From drugs to diploma (6/12/09)
The assignment given to all school reporters: Find a short "graduation" story from your district. I wanted to go beyond the usual stories of valedictorians and athletic superstars.
A baby on a doorstep; all grown up (12/21/09)
After finding the local connection to an A1 Washington Post story, I had to write the more localized angle, for our readers, fairly quickly.
State of the Union 2010: How central PA sees it (1/28/2010)
Education/Statewide Enterprise:
Breaking down special education policy: Does it help parents or educators? (2/22/09)
A state budget impasse has school leaders squirming (6/26/09)
Male coaches of competitive female sports: How tough is too tough? (6/17/09)
Using social media:
National Guardsmen miss pay (8/1/09)
I caught onto this story before others at my paper simply because I was plugged into Twitter, where friend and WITF reporter Scott Detrow first broke this news.
Life in Iraq through local photographer's lens (7/26/09)
My hand in The Patriot-News' coverage of the Pennsylvania National Guard began with this Sunday story a few weeks prior.
A few from the good old days:
The archivist: Gatekeeper of Northwestern University history (5/21/08)
The billboard seen throughout Tampa Bay (4/20/07)
A mother's dedication (6/10/07)
