This is creepy. I got a friend request on Facebook from a stranger, although, I wasn’t positive at first it was a stranger since it could be, for example, a Club Jade person who I know by a screen name. I went to his profile and looked at his friends - all women. Here’s where it got weird: Eight had names that were variations of Jessica (Jessie, ( Read more... )

This is what the street outside my office looked like last night:


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"Rapping in the 802"

It took us forever to write this headline for today’s paper - and it’s not even that good (
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Yes!!

I just finished writing yet another cover story for our Sunday magazine - that’s reporting and writing four big articles in about three months, which is a lot for me. Add to that the increased number of hours that I’ve been working in the last 2 months because of a coworker's illness - I’ve been very very busy.

Of course, I’m about to embark ( Read more... )

I'm home now. Yea ( Read more... )

I'm posting this from work. Like police officers and fire fighters and mail deliverers, newspaper editors can't use a blizzard as an excuse to stay home ( Read more... )

Here's my favorite cop brief of the night (and there is a Berlin in Vermont ( Read more... )

Caroline got into her first college! University of Wisconsin. She was quite thrilled, skipping down the stairs, a huge grin on her face ( Read more... )

One of the reasons I went back to journalism is to be able to be more than just an observer on election night. In the 90s I went to Vermont Democrat headquarters (fun in 1992, depressing in 1994) - which was enjoyable, but I always felt strange. Like I was on the wrong side of the fence. Even though our newsroom is small and relatively quiet, it is ( Read more... )

I feel a need to talk about the pig and the drowning incident. Or, how our small-town police chief may need to find a good PR person.

A few weeks back, the Montpelier cops wanted to question someone. He ran away, they had a “madcap” chase through town that ended when the guy jumped into the river. It was late at night, it was pitch black - the ( Read more... )