Way back when in the old days of journalism, the local media fed off of one another. I could see when the local TV station, for example, had...

I have interviewed hundreds of people over the course of my career as a freelance news correspondent for various local and state magazines a...

I wrote stories on a variety of issues during my tenure as a news reporter. I covered everything from the local governments (county, towns, ...

This weekend, a somewhat local restaurant (within 45 minutes of me, anyway, in Lexington) made the news because the owner asked the press sp...

Everywhere I look these days, I see someone write about the fake media. "I don't trust the media," they say. "It's ...

Last night, I dreamed I was attending a local town council meeting, along with several other reporters. I don't recall what was so impor...

We have one of those medicine cabinets in the bathroom that sits above the sink. It acts as a mirror and when you open either side, there...

During the 10 years I spent writing for one area newspaper in the 1990s and up until 2004, I was painfully aware of one fact about that part...

Sometimes things end with a huge bang, bursts of smoke and lots of noise. Other times things end with a whimper, a whisper or an uncanny sig...

Regular readers might think I dislike hot air balloons , but truly that is not so. I only have problems with one particular balloonist, whic...

A few weeks ago I was telling someone that I have been a news reporter of some kind since 1985. "I bet you have some stories to tell,...

I want to write about the Freedom of Information Act. I don't know much about the federal version, but I can talk about Virginia's. ...