09.14.2011 Columns Inside Out: A manifesto in a few tips for reporters I long ago put together a list of admonishments designed to scare away anyone who said they wanted to be a full-time general assignment reporter for this newspaper or...
08.31.2011 Columns Inside Out: Hurricane hassles and two previous storms I remember How would you like to be handed a barrel and a paddle at the edge of the Niagara River just a couple of miles above the falls? Well, as...
08.24.2011 Columns Inside Out: Hugh & Perry — warriors from a different era I can’t pretend I knew Hugh Carey but I related to him almost as if I did. An old friend of mine married Perry Duryea, Governor Carey’s tall, silver-haired...
08.03.2011 Columns Inside Out: Mamas, don’t let your kids become editors I began to learn there are different styles of editing when I first started as a reporter. At my newspaper, there was a good cop editor and a bad...
07.27.2011 Columns Inside Out: My big beer ad writer moment “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.” That was Ernest Hemingway’s advice on how to write. It comes in “A...