My Writing
Hundreds of published pieces on a wide range of topics: Senate hearings to cowboy poetry; a fatal shooting in a small town to national futures markets; discrimination lawsuits to the financial crisis; and more.
Scroll to the bottom for links to more clips and a detailed description of my work in each newsroom.
Scroll to the bottom for links to more clips and a detailed description of my work in each newsroom.
Selected Clips
| Schumer-Shelby Fraud Bill, Market News |
The introduction of a bill to combat corporate fraud at the height of the Bernard Madoff scandal by a couple of Senate heavyweights. Some interesting perspective on the rollback of FBI enforcement when priorities changed after the Sept. 11 attacks.
| TARP Treasury Overpay, Market News |
Was among the first to break the news that Treasury substantially overpaid for bad assets in the first Wall Street bailout.
| Endowment Plummets, Mac Weekly |
An overview of Macalester's struggles a couple months into the financial crisis, with emphasis on what it means for students and the future of the college. I followed up on this one in equal detail a year later. See it here with some of my other work at the Mac Weekly.
| Obama-Biden Middle Class Task Force, Market News |
My first reporting from the White House, on the signing of a set of executive orders that rolled back some Bush-era policies toward organized labor.
| Professor Discrimination Charge, Mac Weekly |
I got tips like this (a discrimination charge filed by a professor against the college) after years of building trust with sources on campus. A delicate story to report and write on such a small campus and with serious legal issues involved.
| AJ Hanlon Remembered, Our Town |
This was a hard one to write: a young man shot and killed by a police officer in rural Oregon. Through interviews with his family and friends, I try to show who the Irish youth was during his brief time in the United States. More on this story in the detail of my work at Our Town.