Clips
Below is some of the published work I've done for
newspapers, both as a staff writer and freelance:
Niagara-Wheatfield
and business
reporter /
Features writer
Ready to Roll
I
spent a night at practice with the Queen City Roller Girls and lived to
tell the tale. With video (that's occasionally hard to hear, but think
of it as a testament to the volume of energy the Queen City girls are
putting out).
Everything
must go — for good
Jimmy Cancemi started a furniture store in the
trunk of a compact Dodge in 1971. After more than 35 years, he was the
only independent furniture store in Niagara Falls, but he eventually
decided to close. The store has a rich history, and this is a humble
attempt to sum it up.
Sandusky
Register
Police
& Courts reporter
Old
case files
The
headline doesn't convey the amount of
storytelling I was able to find in some of the things left collecting
dust around a county courtroom.
In
the
nick of time
A
moment-by-moment retelling of a house fire that
nearly took the lives of three children -- during one of the worst snow
storms the area had seen in years.
At
last, an answer
People
nowadays seem to harbor endless fascination
into how forensic science can solve "cold cases," but sometimes having
a face to put to a crime, having an "answer,"isn't enough.
Super
wings for Super Bowl
When
you go from Buffalo to Sandusky, it's only
natural to be picked for a feature on the business of wings.
From
the big guy to the small fry
A
project undertaken by Brad Kane and myself to
determine where the county's drug task force was addressing the kind of
problems it was set up to do.
Man
found dead on Third St.
A
stabbing in one of the most desolate parts of
town turns up a person that's been missing for weeks ... he's nearly
frozen stiff.
Buffalo
News
Business
reporting & Niagara
Falls bureau
The
price
of a dream
It
had the name of famous modeling agency, and it
was backed by the guy who launched Britney Spears and N'Sync. So why
were the feds looking into Wilhelmina Scouting Agency, and why are
girls who paid nearly $1,000 getting something less than prime time
exposure?
Tough
times for teens
My
first A-1 story for the News, it looked at
decline in the summer job market that had been occurring over the last
three years (as of July 2003) and how that affected employees and
employers in Buffalo, not exactly the country's strongest economy to
begin with.(Available with photos/chart)
Bets
on the Net
One
man's somewhat naive quest to launch "his own
online casino" in Niagara Falls, NY, where legalized gambling is on the
tip of every would-be municipal savior's tongue.(Available
with photos)
The
tax
man cometh
A
Buffalo-area native has always wanted to run the
country's largest tax services company, and has nearly made it twice
before. Can he build his own self-created empire into the tax franchise
of his dreams?
Take
a
gander
Pretty
basic store-opening story, but I was
fascinated with the wealth of hunting, fishing and sporting knowledge
out there that many people -- alright, maybe just I am -- completely
unexposed to.
North
Tonawanda
"Stringer,"
covering small Niagara County city
for Buffalo News
Beyond
The Bars
My
first article on North Tonawanda , the town I
covered as a stringer for the News while attending the University at
Buffalo. It holds a special place in my clip file, as it was my first
"front pager" (for the Niagara section, anyways) and my first chance to
go out and talk to residents in a community, scribble down notes, then
meld it into something halfway decent.
Book
Reviews
When
the
Market and Hopes Go Bust
David
Denby's "American Sucker," a memoir of the New
Yorker film critic's foray (and descent) into the financial
frenzy of the dot-com boom.
Stiglitz
Offers Little Lessons in History
Nobel
Prize winner and former World Bank leader
Joseph Stiglitz offers his second tome on what's gone wrong in the
economy of late with "The Roaring Nineties." "Globalization and Its
Discontents," it's not.
A
Landmark Epic Brought Vividly To Life
"Great
Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center," a
remarkably readable "biography" of Rockefeller Center by former Time
Editor and current New York Times Public Editor Daniel Okrent.
Shining
Light on Electricity
Edison,
Westinghouse, Tesla, the death penalty,
and Niagara Falls are all detailed in "Empires of Light," Jill Jonnes'
history of the "War of the Electric Currents."
Putting
an
Exclamation Point on the Dot-Com Age
An
inside look by Gary Wolff at the tumultuous
growth, rapid fall and eventual leveling of Wired,
the magazine that personified the 1990's like few other publications
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