Political Voyeurs in New Hampshire, February 2000
With the New Hampshire primary happening today, I figured it's time to dust off some of the only presidential political reporting I've ever done (I covered George W. Bush's visit to the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colo., also).
It occurred 16 years ago, before I wrote for a…
Jack Galvin, taken in his Fletcher School office on October 18, 1999.
John R. “Jack” Galvin, the son of a bricklayer who rose to become NATO supreme allied commander of European forces and dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy died on September 25, of complications of Parkinson’s disease.
New York Times and Washington Post…
I was hanging out at the YMCA of the Rockies Estes Park craft center a couple of weeks back, scrolling through emails as my daughters glued colorful glass shards to pale pine cigarette boxes, when an email came in. Subject line: A review of Jars to Stars.
We were outside at a picnic table, under a…
As a writer with limited Photoshop skills and very limited video-editing skills, I'm tend to be in awe of good video. Since I left the Daily Camera in 2007, though, I haven't had a chance to compare a story of mine with the video equivalent. Back then, it was always TV news people who happened to…
Courtesy Ball Aerospace.
A closely held secret among journalists is that, once you write a story, the mind tends to shed the details rather hastily. And so, despite seeming authoritative -- and actually being rather authoritative -- for the duration of a given story and for a day or two afterward, it fades fast. Hence the…