Favorite Feature Clips
Features:
Tax Delay Fast-Tracked Sunshine State News 3/1/10
- In perhaps the biggest measure benefiting businesses this legislative session, lawmakers pushed to relieve employers of a tax hike.
Business-Friendly Youth Summer Employment Programs in Danger Sunshine State News 5/10/10
- Reported on how a lack of extra federal funds were causing summer employment programs to be scaled back and abandoned.
How Business-Friendly was the Legislature this Session? Sunshine State News 5/ 6/10
- Kept track of the major business decisions made by lawmakers this session?
AAA: Some Travelers Avoiding Southwest Florida Beaches Sunshine State News 7/1/10
- Wrote about how tourists are changing their plans because of the BP oil spill
Stimulus money provides local youths with summer employment
- covered attempts to employ Treasure Cast youth with stimulus money. Wrote three versions of the story tailored to three coverage areas. The Stuart News 7/25/09
Joshua, young camel of the Upper Valley
- This article, my last at the Valley News, was picked up by the Associated Press and published in the Boston Globe, as well as a number of New England newspapers. It is my favorite story from my time there. Valley News, 10/8/2008
Survival by design May 2008
- An in-depth story on the struggling artists of Andros Island. Published in an online,student-produced magazine
Planners hope new sewer system will help Hobe Sound The Stuart News 5/8/09
- Told the tale of an attempt to revitalize a beachside town.
Sounds exciting to Honduran boy with cochlear implant The Stuart News 6/4/09
- Feature story on the attempt to donate an implant to a Honduran child.
Volunteers stepping forward for new Martin County Parks program The Stuart News 1/31/09
- chronicled the cash-strapped county’s attempts to maintain parks with volunteers instead of employees.
Shelter fills as coffers shrink
- Story a local animal shelter’s struggle to find funding. 1/25/09
Online and Editorial:
Crisis Camp Miami 1/23/2010
- Volunteered to help live blog the South Florida conference of a national effort by technology specialists to improve relief to earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
What’s next for Alex Barton? The Stuart News 2/7/09
- A guest column on an autistic child voted out of his kindergarten class.
Pathos, Pride and The Color Purple at the Arsht Center Miami New Times 10/29/09
- Reviewed the Miami Premiere of The Color Purple musical.
In Case You Missed It, and You Probably Did, Crist Signed the Seminole Compact Today
