Photo in latest article, about the West Coast Junior Olympics Track and Field Championships going on in Reno this weekend. It’s a pretty cute story, in my opinion.
Four Rosenthal articles in today’s Reno Gazette-Journal, including two on A1 and an A2 centerpiece.
The articles, from my favorite to least favorite:
“Nevada tax protesters plan Tea rallies” (170 comments so far!)
“Reno airport expects busy holiday weekend” (Including me!)
“Washoe officials warn against firework use” (They’re illegal here!)
Another one of those “really proud of” articles was published today in the Reno Gazette-Journal. The article, centerpieced on the front page as part of our coverage of new budget provisions that go into place today, the first day of the fiscal year, explores the impact of mandatory furloughs on all state employees.
What is the impact? Well, they’re not quite sure as many agencies don’t know how the furloughs will be implemented, even though they start today.
Related article: “Fees start today for Nevada driving test”
First video for the Reno Gazette-Journal! Please sit through the ad and watch it. It’s cute!
Oh and the other rodeo videos, which I contributed to, are pretty cool as well.
Had some fun with this one…Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons, he of the shockingly low 10% approval rating, sent out a press release Friday saying he noticed a “curious anomaly” in the state’s gas prices: they’re high. So he ordered a study into the issue.
Gas station owners, as you can imagine, thought this was ridiculous, and the AAA said they’d be “surprised” if the study shed light on anything.
This all makes for a funny article. And 54 comments!
A baseball autographed by Babe Ruth in 1928 was auctioned Saturday in Reno. The ball was auctioned along with the estate of best-selling fantasy author David Eddings (a man who despite his fame, I had never heard of). I provided extensive coverage of the auction:
“Fans can take a swing at buying Babe Ruth autographed baseball”
I got to interview a Reno celebrity about Michael Jackson!
The Reno Rodeo Carnival.
I got my first taste of rodeo coverage in the middle of the week (my last assignment of the week was a video of the rodeo finals on Saturday) with this article about the rodeo carnival. It was centerpieced on the front page!
The Reno Rodeo, by the way, is sweet. Billed as the “Wildest, Richest Rodeo in the West,” it lived up to expectations.
Lance Allen, the star of an article that I had a lot of fun writing this week. The extended anecdotal lead:
Every weekday afternoon, a few minutes before the judge enters, Lance Allen stands in front of Reno Small Claims Court.
He smiles, takes a breath and then addresses the people gathered in the courtroom.
On Thursday, two couples are in court to resolve a dispute over fencing between their adjoined properties, two men have come to settle a debt disagreement, and one woman came to collect a missed payment.
After introducing himself, Allen gets to the point. You don’t have to see the judge if you don’t want to, he tells the litigants. Instead, you can come with me and try to resolve the dispute on your own through a court-sponsored mediation program.
Virginia City is a historic town in the Nevada mountains, about 25 miles from Reno. It was ground zero for the Nevada mining boom and the place where Mark Twain began his career as a journalism.
It recently won an award for being the best place in Nevada to “buy an old home.” I headed up the windy mountain road to cover the story, and you can read the article here. (Make sure to click through for a photo gallery of Virginia City homes)
“Charter school aims for students lost in the cracks of a large district”
There’s an interesting paradox about this whole posting-links-to-my-stories-on-my-blog thing: The more articles I write, the less time I have to do blog posts, creating a cycle of writing but not posting.
I fell into that cycle this week.
Believe it or not, I worked 70 hours at the Reno Gazette-Journal this week (including coming in on Saturday to make up for taking off work next Friday, but not expecting to work 15 hours on Saturday).
The good news is, I produced 12 articles and my first video for RGJ.
Now that I have some time, I’ll be linking to the articles shortly…please take some time to read them (it’s Sunday, what else do you have to do?).
You know how you do all these articles but every once in awhile one comes along that you put an extra amount of effort into and are just really proud of? Well, that happened to me this morning as I saw publication of my biggest/longest/best Reno Gazette-Journal article yet.
The article, centerpieced on the front page, is about some major rehabiliation going on at area schools this summer.
