Here are some samples of my work at The News-Times:
- A local Episcopal priest was accused by a 13-year-old boy of offering oral sex as a confirmation gift. He was ordered to undergo "rehabilitation" but continued to lead his congregation. This article won an SPJ award for investigative reporting.
- Suicide Series (winner of SPJ investigative series award):
- NEW MILFORD - Ten local teen-age girls have attempted to kill themselves in the past three weeks, highlighting what hospital officials say is a sudden increase in suicidal teens this spring.
- Suicide, or at least talking about suicide, has become an acceptable way of dealing with everyday teen-age troubles, from losing boyfriends to fights with parents.
In other words, experts say, suicide and depression have become "cool."
- Her life became so unbearable, a teen-age girl said, that she swallowed 40 aspirin to "make the pain go somewhere else."
- The suicide pact: For several months about 15 local teen-age girls have had an "understanding" that if one killed herself, the others would follow.
- Some local teen-agers think suicide is so cool that they cut their wrists and show them off at school, bragging about how deep the cuts are.
- As tonight's midnight deadline approached, lawmakers remained embroiled in a bitter partisan stalemate over increasing the minimum wage, threatening to derail some of the session's most ambitious legislation.
- Just as the state Senate passed a bill to outlaw children from flying in Connecticut, I discovered from the FAA that the General Assembly does not have the authority to do so.
- A health bill that would place tighter restrictions on the managed-care industry is withering in the hands of a local state senator who has no intention of letting it survive.
- This is a news analysis I wrote after months of covering the strained labor negotiations between New Milford Hospital and its nurses.
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