Portfolio

I write a lot, mostly for the Star-Tribune. A few of those stories (and others I like) are listed below.

Digging deeper

By our own hand: Suicide in Wyoming, contributing writer (September 2011)
- Wyoming family follows long path to healing from suicide [storyweb]
- Prevention programs target Wyoming youth [storyweb]
- Other states attack suicide from the top [storyweb]

Literacy: A community effort (April 11, 2011)
- Wyoming schools see results from early-literacy efforts [storyweb]
- New campaign aims to boost reading skills [storyweb]
- Adults struggle to learn to read [storyweb]

Tussle over tenure (Feb. 13, 2011)
- Few Wyoming teachers challenge dismissals [storyweb]
- Teachers speak in defense of tenure [storyweb]
- Profile: Harshman teaches, leads in Legislature [storyweb]

Project: Top of the class (November 2009)
Four-part series on excelling school districts in Wyoming
[PDF | web]

Issue: Wyoming mulls national teaching standards (April 5, 2010)
[storyPDF | Web]

Explanatory: Instructional facilitators fill key role in Wyo schools, but impact is hard to measure (Feb. 14, 2010)
[PDF | web]

Natrona County School District spends stimulus on training (Feb. 21, 2011)
- Part of a national education reporting project about the education stimulus.
[web]

Daily stories

National organization targets Wyoming teachers (Feb. 8, 2011)
[storyweb]

Committee wants to end Hathaway Scholarship requirement (Nov. 18, 2010)
[storyweb]

Feds offer money for overhauls, but some Wyoming schools don’t plan to change course (May 7, 2010)
[PDF | web]

PAWS problems persist (Mar 25, 2010)
[PDF | web]

Program offers dropouts discipline, GED (July 12, 2010)
[storyPDFweb]

Budget analysis: End of the ‘Path’ (July 5, 2010)
[PDF | web]

Features


Nerves, excitement, tears mark first day of school (Aug. 25, 2011)
[story | web]

Profile: Science depot staffed by one (June 9, 2011)
[storyweb]

One wheel is cooler than two (May 5, 2011)
[storyweb]

Elk Mountain Hotel offers serenity, escape (March 27, 2011)
[web]

Elementary school teaches ’7 Habits’ (Dec. 16, 2010)
[web]

Health: MU volunteers reach trauma victims worldwide (May 16, 2008)
[PDF | Web]

Music: Shining on
OffBeat music magazine, June 2009
[web]

Homes: Artist in residence
Profile of artist James Michalopoulos’s home, New Orleans Homes and Lifestyles, April 2009
[web]